Tehrir Square Of Cairo

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Also known by the appellation, Al-Midan Tahrir, and spread over 500 acres, it is the largest public square of Muslim Cairo. It has won universal reputation in recent years because of being the gathering site for mobs protesting and rioting against the 30 years long regime of President Hosni Mubarik, and remaining the focus of international press and electronic media. The location of the square serves as a gateway to the centre of the city of Cairo. A well known national daily News paper of the country, Al – Ahram, quotes about the square: whatever happens in Tehrir Square becomes a national concern. Its immense area easily accommodated the masses of the people belonging to the movement for over throwing Mubarik’s regime.

The place in what is now Tehrir Square used to be a large sandy tract during the ancient period of Egyptian history. Much of this land was covered by the Nile when it changed its course during the 10th century rendering it into a marshland. By the time of Mohammad.Ali, the founder of modern Egypt, owing to the barrages constructed for controlling the flow of the Nile, the area was changed into a fertile field. and became home to palaces of the royal family as well as cultivated fields and gardens. In the late 19th century, Ismail pasha the, the grandson of Mohammad .Ali Pasha who is known as the founder of Modern Cario directed Ali pasha Mubarik--- the then public works minister of Egypt--- to remodel the city of Cairo after Paris. 

                                                    Cairo is proud of its vast roundabout

A part of the project was to make a district named after him, i-e, Isamailia. In the centre of the district was founded a public square also named Ismailia. In the earlier decades of the twentieth century, a large roundabout was constructed in the southern part of the region. Up till 1952, the region bore the name Ismailia Square. After the overthrow of the monarchy in the year mentioned, President Jamal Abdul Nasser renamed it Midan Tahrir or liberation square. It has become a tradition of the U.A.R public to gather at this place. The most prominent buildings surrounding the square include the salmon colored Egyptian National Museum---the first building one sees in the Midan Tehrir, the downtown Cairo Campus of the American University, the headquarters of the Arab League, the Mogamma Building, and the Nile Hilton hotel.  

                                       Egyptians supporting Wael Ghonim in Tahrir Square 



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