Egypt's revolution, seven years on: An insider's perspective

Omar Robert Hamilton is a British-Egyptian filmmaker, who has just published a book entitled "The City Always Wins". It's a vibrant account of the Egyptian revolution, and of what happened afterwards. Omar Robert Hamilton dropped everything to join the revolution in 2011, an uprising he describes as the "defining thing" in his life. He looks back at that time and gives us his perspective on the situation in Egypt today, seven years on.

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