Our Mubarak years
Audio 48:30
Women activists of the Kefaya movement wear stickers on their mouths (it says "Enough!"), During a demonstration in Cairo (Egypt), April 6, 2009. © AMR SHARAF / AP
By: Valérie Nivelon
50 min
After weeks of protests across Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign on February 11, 2011, and handed over the reins to the army.
But, how did the Rais stay in power for three decades?
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They are activists, historians, politicians, feminists or soldiers and tell us how they lived the Mubarak years in their country.
They confided freely to RFI, a few months after the fall of Mubarak.
Testimonies collected in Cairo by Valérie Nivelon.
Demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak, March 30, 2005, in Cairo (Egypt).
Nabil el-Ezabi (left) and George Ishak (2nd dr), one of the leaders of the Kefaya movement.
© Amr Nabil / AP
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