Revolution in Cairo

Today, we watched a video in class about a girl named Gigi who lives in Egypt and is supporting the movement. The movement is about Egyptians trying to throw out their leader of 30 years, Mubarak. She is going against her family, an upper middle class family who believes that Mubarak should stay in office until his term is over and then see what happens. Gigi, a 24 year old who studied at the University of America of Cairo, believes that some people in Egypt don't agree with the protests because they haven't known anyone else, so they look up to him like a father almost. She takes a camera crew through the streets explaining what is going on. Fights break out, people are shot, and words are slurred between groups of pro-Mubarak and anti-Mubarak. After almost two weeks of continuous violence, early in the morning, they announced the resignation of President Mubarak. The one thing Gigi has waited for for a long time.