Protester Sleeping In Front Of Parliament.
Although the protest encampment and sit in at Tahrir Square was the most famous, there were other sit-ins throughout Egypt during the 18 days which led to Mubarak's fall from power and one of the most important was the gathering outside parliament just half a mile south of the Square.
Here a protester, who might have been awake all night as a guard or on another duty, sleeps during the day outside one of the main gates of the maglis eshaab (the lower house of parliament).
Some protesters preferred to sleep during the day because temperatures at night in Cairo can drop to just three degrees meaning that without a tent and numerous blankets they might potentially risk hypothermia.
Fortunately however for the protesters, for the two week duration of the Tahrir Square and other sit ins, the weather in Cairo remained unusually mild with the minimum temperature never dropping below ten degrees so the nights though uncomfortable were not dangerously cold. .
Protester Sleeping In Front Of Parliament.
Although the protest encampment and sit in at Tahrir Square was the most famous, there were other sit-ins throughout Egypt during the 18 days which led to Mubarak's fall from power and one of the most important was the gathering outside parliament just half a mile south of the Square.
Here a protester, who might have been awake all night as a guard or on another duty, sleeps during the day outside one of the main gates of the maglis eshaab (the lower house of parliament).
Some protesters preferred to sleep during the day because temperatures at night in Cairo can drop to just three degrees meaning that without a tent and numerous blankets they might potentially risk hypothermia.
Fortunately however for the protesters, for the two week duration of the Tahrir Square and other sit ins, the weather in Cairo remained unusually mild with the minimum temperature never dropping below ten degrees so the nights though uncomfortable were not dangerously cold. .