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'The Square': Shooting a Revolution
Shooting a revolution on the streets of Cairo.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenFilmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Control Room) was detained, had cameras destroyed and footage lost as she documented the Egyptian revolution for her film The Square. Noujaim and activist/actor Khalid Abdalla talk about the process of being inside a revolution as it's happening and using cameras 'as weapons' to tell the world their story.
Banner image: (L-R) Jehane Noujaim and Khalid Abdalla. Photo: Brandon Nightingale
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The new documentary The Square gives a gritty, inspirational street-level view from inside the Egyptian uprising. Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Control Room) and actor/activist Khalid Abdalla -- who appears in the movie -- talk about how and why they engage in the revolution whose hub has been in Cairo's Tahrir Square since January, 2011.
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