In step with an increasingly politically awakened and more insights into Egypt's economic situation, the then 21-year-old Mina Naguib joined the very first day of protest.
- No one thought it was possible that President Hosni Mubarak would disappear.
No one had therefore planned for what would happen next.
It was a dream.
It was better than one had hoped for, says Mina Naguib.
It did not get better
Since the first 18 turbulent and violent days, another Egyptian president has fallen and a coup has taken place.
Power is now in the hands of the military and the hope of the revolution is almost a thing of the past.
- It feels so strange that ten years have passed.
The changes that had been hoped for yielded nothing.
It got worse with freedom of speech, with the economy, with everything you fought for, says Mina Naguib.
Activists still imprisoned
A dozen countries in the Middle East and North Africa were dragged into the wave of euphoria that began in Tunisia in December 2010.
Mina Naguib left Egypt in February 2011. He studied for a master's degree in Sweden and has soon lived in Stockholm for ten years.
- I left suddenly and my parents were afraid that something would happen to me if I went back.
I had a bad conscience because I saw my friends on TV, in the middle of the demonstrations, and I saw that the oppression only got worse, says Mina Naguib and continues:
- I still have friends who are imprisoned because they were at a demonstration.
"It's the whole regime or nothing"
In 2019, slogans from then on began to be chanted again in streets around the region, such as Lebanon and Iraq.
- Now we know more than ever that it is not enough for the president to resign.
It's the whole regime or nothing.
Otherwise it is not a revolution, says Mina Naguib.
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