Cairo-based photojournalist.Tumblr (3.0; @jonathanrashad)http://jonathanrashad.tumblr.com/<p><img height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6759286171_b58fda4657.jpg" width="500"/></p> <p>January 25, 2012 - 3:10am</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drumzo/sets/72157629023270077/detail/">Visit my Flickr set for more shots.</a></p>http://jonathanrashad.tumblr.com/post/17997411539http://jonathanrashad.tumblr.com/post/17997411539Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:34:20 -0500<p><span> <p>On November 24, 2011 the Egyptian Army built a concrete wall at the used-to-be battlefront in Mohamed Mahmoud street, after a non-stop war that lasted for more than 100 hours between anti-SCAF protesters and Central Security Forces.</p> <p>The battle ignited on November 19, 2011 when Central Security Forces broke up Tahrir’s sit-in of those who were injured earlier in January during the First Egyptian Uprising.</p> <p>Protesters were using rocks and molotov cocktails against CSF’s CR teargas, nerve gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition.</p> <p>Overall losses: at least 40 killed, hundreds arrested, thousands injured and many lost their eyes.</p> <p><img alt="Army troops on standby behind the concrete wall. The man wearing a green vest is a thunderbolt (army special forces) officer." height="332" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6467403153_25fd10a049.jpg" width="500"/></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drumzo/sets/72157628309169105/detail/">Click here to see the entire set on flickr.</a></p> </span></p>http://jonathanrashad.tumblr.com/post/17997174782http://jonathanrashad.tumblr.com/post/17997174782Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:29:12 -0500