On 25 January 2011, Egyptian youth took to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand basic rights and freedom from decades of authoritarian rule. Within a few days, this protest of thousands grew to millions across the country as the world watched how the peaceful power of the masses could bring down one of the Arab region’s longest-serving rulers.

The story of those pivotal 18 days is re-lived in “The Egyptian Revolution”, a multimedia documentary produced by TrustMedia, the media development wing of the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF). As the charitable arm of the world’s leading provider of news and information, TRF is committed to providing people around the world with reliable information to promote the rule of law, save lives in disasters and improve standards of journalism.

Written and narrated by a former Reuters’ journalist and produced by TRF’s award-winning multimedia team, “The Egyptian Revolution” is much more than a general documentation of the uprising that forever changed Egypt and the Arab world. Using Reuters’ prized footage and pictures, it captures the main events through the personal experience of an Egyptian woman and her family.

The sight of Tahrir square on fire, camels charging into protesters and news of cabinet reshuffles and political speeches are interwoven with the Kandil family’s  joy and hopes for a new Egypt, mixed with their fear over looters in their neighborhood and frantic trips to supermarkets to secure basic supplies.

“The Egyptian Revolution” is compiled into a three-part chronological series - “The Flood”, “The Clash” and “The Fall”.

It was produced to coincide with the launch of Aswat Masriya, an independent website providing essential news and information around Egypt’s elections and run by a team of local journalists and editors who are managed by TRF in London."