Messages from Tahrir

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Writer and broadcaster Anthony Sattin leads a
conversation with photographer Karima Khalil who
presents some of the evocative images from her
book, “Messages from Tahrir”.
Khalil has managed to capture a sense of the
protests that brought down the Mubarak regime
and for this special evening she gives her personal
account of these history-making photographs.
“Astonishing and often deeply moving images from the
frontline of one of the most hopeful moments in modern
history.” William Dalrymple, author, “Nine Lives”
“Photographs capture fleeting moments and live
on, preserving truth and human emotion. This book
chronicles the January 25 Revolution without text or
theorizing; it presents the reality of what happened,
changing Egypt and the whole Arab world.” Alaa al
Aswany, author, “The Yacoubian Building”
Karima Khalil is a doctor and photographer. She
was overwhelmed by the power and eloquence of the
signs many protesters were carrying so determinedly
in Tahrir Square, and collected and captured these
images and those of thirty-five other photographers
in “Messages from Tahrir”, published by the American
University in Cairo Press. She lives in Cairo with her
husband, Max Rodenbeck, Middle East correspondent
for the Economist, and their daughter Laila.
Anthony Sattin is a writer and broadcaster, a
specialist on the Middle East and North Africa and
one of the key influences in modern travel writing.
He is the author of several highly-acclaimed books,
most recently “A Winter on the Nile” and “Lifting
the Veil”. Sattin is also a regular contributor to the
Sunday Times and Condé Nast Traveller and has
been widely published in the UK and internationally.