WEBVTT 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:04.909 I know that I have only exactly two minutes on the stage, 00:00:05.155 --> 00:00:12.535 but I request an extra minute of silence from the audience and from the panel to remember the souls of those who died for the sake of freedom in Egypt. 00:00:29.305 --> 00:00:32.040 Thank you. 00:00:35.948 --> 00:00:43.240 An Honest View of Liberation Square 00:00:50.040 --> 00:00:58.720 Put away all of your old poems, 00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:04.040 tear apart all of your old notebooks, 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:11.880 and write for Egypt today the poetry that she deserves. 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:17.183 Put away all of your old notebooks, 00:01:17.183 --> 00:01:21.960 and write for Egypt today the poetry that she deserves. 00:01:21.960 --> 00:01:25.280 No longer will silence impose its fear, 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:31.040 so write that Egypt and her people are the peace of the Nile. 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:37.600 You are the most beautiful one, o Egypt, who has decided 00:01:37.600 --> 00:01:43.240 that this fear has passed and has ended. 00:01:43.240 --> 00:01:49.080 The streets were toying with us, 00:01:49.080 --> 00:01:54.160 the streets were toying with us with their coldness and their frost, 00:01:54.160 --> 00:01:57.400 and we could not give an explanation at the time. 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:01.120 We warmed each other, 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:05.640 and as we saw you smile, we forgot the cold. 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.200 And when you grew angry, 00:02:08.200 --> 00:02:10.240 you showed it. 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:12.320 And when you grew angry, 00:02:12.320 --> 00:02:14.560 you showed your face. 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:24.640 And our conscience would not allow us to defile you. 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:28.480 Do not let them tell you that I 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:32.240 am a rebel, that I have betrayed the trust of my country or forgotten it. 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.760 Do not let them tell you that I 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:40.040 have become trivial or that I am manipulated. 00:02:40.040 --> 00:02:41.840 For I am the child of your womb, 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:43.640 and the children of your womb are those who wanted to 00:02:43.640 --> 00:02:56.800 and who deposed and who acknowledged and who forbid. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:03.800 The defeated remained silent, fearfully, in cowardice, 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:11.040 and those who love you have said what they had to say.