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  1. Sep 14, 2011 · The area was in design limbo from ‘48 until '54 when a decision was made by the Nasser regime to erect three new buildings along the Nile: The Arab League, a hotel, The Cairo Municipality (now the torched NDP building). By September 1954 the Istanbul Hilton construction was underway.

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  2. Jan 25, 2012 · After several pro-Mubarak rallies took place around Cairo, tough-looking men headed for Tahrir Square on 2 February - some on horseback and one on a camel - and launched another deadly attack.

  3. Nov 22, 2011 · One person was killed as crowds flooded back into Tahrir Square on 9 April, to demand that Mr Mubarak and his family be put on trial. Protesters reoccupied the square on 8 July, some calling...

  4. Apr 1, 2011 · Tahrir Square, 1962. A photograph of the square from the early 1960s helps tell the story. Appearing under the Cairo tower is the headquarters of the Arab League and next to it is the former Hilton Hotel, which is currently under renovation as a new Ritz-Carlton.

  5. From the hotel, it was possible to see smoke rising from the blackened husk of the N.D.P. headquarters, which protesters had burned on January 28th, the Friday of Rage. The building continued to...

  6. Jan 25, 2023 · Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir Square for what they termed the “Day of Departure”.

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  8. Feb 24, 2020 · From the other side of the Nile, these three buildings engulfed Tahrir Square, separating it from the Nile Front. The site itself has been part of the evolution of modern Cairo as historians of Cairo Janet Abu-Lughod and André Raymond tell us.

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