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(television chatter)

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I never thought I would find myself filming a story

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about the police in my country.

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Or that I would get this close to one of them.

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(gun cocking)

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If the idea of a police force is to protect its citizens,

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then something has gone badly wrong in my country.

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Years of police brutality made Egyptians fear the state

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and taught me to avoid the police at all cost.

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I was born the year President Mubarak came into office.

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By the time I turned 30,

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living in his repressive police state

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was all I had ever known.

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This strange relationship to authority

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played a part in my family upbringing, too.

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My father was a criminal investigator.

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But he was secretive about his work.

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After he died, I learned that his job

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was to investigate state corruption,

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but I never understood why he kept it hidden from me.

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That burning question haunted me for a long time

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and left me wanting to uncover this world.

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Growing up in a repressive police state

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left me and many other Egyptians angry.

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(boots marching)

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Our anger finally erupted

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and spilled into the streets in 2011.

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Ironically, it was on National Police Day.

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(shouting)

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(sirens blaring)

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(whistle blowing)

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(cannons firing)

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During a battle with police near my house,

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I saw a protestor crying.

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I wasn''t sure if it was from the tear gas

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or because of his emotions.

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I was shocked to discover

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that he was a plainclothes policeman

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but fighting on our side.

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When he saw my camera,

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he told me if the revolution ever failed,

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I must never show his face.

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(shouting)

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As night fell, protestors gained more ground,

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forcing the police to retreat to whatever hiding places

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they could find.

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(banging)

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Angry mobs set fire to police stations,

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and many policemen shed their uniforms along the way.

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What started as a protest against police repression

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grew into demonstrations by millions of Egyptians

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against the president''s regime

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until something incredible happened.

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When the police lost power,

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President Mubarak lost his shield.

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Watching this national father figure fall

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was like a toppling of a pharaoh.

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For the first time in years, I was hopeful.

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Despite the chaos,

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maybe my country now would change for the better.

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Everything I knew about the deep state was coming undone.

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Until the revolution, filming in a police station

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was unthinkable.

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But now, everything seemed possible.

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Walking through a burned-out police station,

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I felt like I was in a surreal dream.

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These were sights my father could never have imagined.

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To me, the plainclothes police had been responsible

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for so much of the brutality and corruption we had experienced.

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In search of answers, I headed into the street

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to track more of them down.

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This policeman told me that he too had suffered

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from police injustice.

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But he disappeared.

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Maybe he got scared that he said too much.

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A few weeks later, I heard about a demonstration

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of low-ranking policemen in front of police headquarters.

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These were the very men I was looking for.

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They were protesting against their $50 a month salary.

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Many were also angry for having been unjustly fired

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or court-martialed.

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It seemed that no Egyptian was immune to injustice.

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At this demonstration, I met a plainclothes cop

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called Abu Habiba.

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He seemed suspicious of my motives,

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so I put away my camera and we just talked.

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He told me he had left the police a few years ago

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but was called back when the uprising began.

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Hinting that he supported the revolution,

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I got intrigued.

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But it took six months before he was willing to open up,

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by which time ex-President Mubarak was on trial.

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The most powerful man in Egypt reduced to a prisoner

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and accused of ordering the death of his own people.

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What''s your statement?

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I deny all these charges and accusations categorically.

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Most Egyptians watched Mubarak''s trial with gratification.

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For Abu Habiba,

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it meant that he now felt free to talk.

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Abu Habiba invited me to his hometown.

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To get there, I joined him

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in one of his long train rides home.

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I was the only civilian in this special carriage

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reserved for the police.

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I wondered how my father would have reacted

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to my growing involvement with the police.

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Would he have been angry or proud?

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(speaking foreign language)

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Watching Abu Habiba with his children,

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I almost forgot the kind of policeman he might be.

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Before the revolution,

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such words could have got us both arrested,

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or even worse.

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And the risks were ever present for both of us.

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On my way back home, I kept imagining the terrible places

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where such interrogations took place and wondered

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if he had just been a witness or if he had taken part as well.

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And why was he confiding in me?

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Was he looking to redeem himself?

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Or was he trying to exonerate himself from any involvement?

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I couldn''t be sure of his motives.

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Abu Habiba told me that left the police several years ago

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for moral reasons.

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I wanted to believe him.

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(motorcycle purring)

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If the revolution could inspire a man like him

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to go back to the force knowing how bad the system could be,

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then there must be hope for both of us.

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Abu Habiba wanted the revolution to succeed,

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but he also wanted to remain a cop.

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Was it possible to have it both ways?

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His words reminded me of that secret world

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my father belonged to.

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A world that I had often dreamt of uncovering.

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If he were still alive, my father would surely have wanted

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Abu Habiba put in jail.

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But things weren''t so black and white for me.

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He seemed to have a heavy conscience,

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so I decided not to judge him.

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In the following months, there were revenge attacks

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on the police.

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Because of this, they avoided interacting with civilians.

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For the first time, they were truly afraid.

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I wanted to meet Abu Habiba''s police unit.

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To fit in better with them,

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I cut my hair short and grew a moustache.

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To my surprise, I didn''t find his unit patrolling the streets.

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Instead, they were guarding public buildings

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on night shifts.

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(train rattling)

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Even in plain clothes,

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people recognized Abu Habiba was a cop.

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And although he was defending the revolution,

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they were quick to disrespect him.

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(knuckles cracking)

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(rooster crowing)

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(phone ringing)

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(yelling in foreign language)

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I wondered what his daughter understood

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about her father''s world.

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As a child, I had always been shielded from that world.

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I almost felt envious of how close she was with her dad.

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Abu Habiba''s unit was still on the night shift.

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Not much had changed for them, it seemed.

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(laughing)

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Although the security forces were told to stay away,

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Abu Habiba went to Tahrir Square anyway.

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I guess he was checking on the progress of the revolution,

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to see if there was a place for him in the new Egypt.

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For years, the Muslim Brotherhood had been

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the main opposition to both Mubarak and the police.

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It was well known that they had been brutalized

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at the hands of the state in the past.

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Now, they were everywhere.

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Abu Habiba appeared more and more disillusioned.

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He looked out of place.

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I shared his sentiments.

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The face of the revolution was changing before our eyes

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into something unexpected.

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(train rumbling)

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Over the next few months,

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the political situation continued to evolve,

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and the Muslim Brotherhood got stronger and stronger.

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I wondered how these men would rule the country

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if given the chance.

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(fire crackling)

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(embers hiss)

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(dog barking)

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(horns honking)

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It soon became clear that the main candidates for the election

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would come either from the Muslim Brotherhood

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or from the military side,

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represented by Mubarak''s former prime minister.

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This was our first fully democratic election

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and our only choice was between these two extremes.

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I voted for neither.

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(train rattling)

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I was surprised he considered supporting Morsi for president,

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especially since the police and the Brotherhood

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had been at odds for years.

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But he seemed ready to back whoever he thought might win,

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even if that meant forcing himself to do it.

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When the Muslim Brotherhood won, I cried.

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They were a religious party holding dogmatic beliefs

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that I had nothing in common with.

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Is this what so many had fought and died for?

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Did people really believe an Islamist group was the answer?

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Liberals like me lost out.

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The Brotherhood had hijacked the revolution

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but behaved as if they represented it.

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(train rumbling)

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Abu Habiba and I shared the belief

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that the Brotherhood was just in it for themselves.

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Neither of us were optimistic.

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(wood splintering)

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(fire crackling)

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(sports chatter on TV)

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His last words lingered in my thoughts.

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Four more years.

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Abu Habiba''s hopes for change seemed to be vanishing.

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(dogs barking)

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(whistle blowing)

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(cannon fire)

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Within a year, the Muslim Brotherhood had not only failed,

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but had become the new oppressor.

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A breakdown of law and order soon followed,

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and people went back out into the streets to protest.

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(clapping and yelling)

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Egyptians were giving up their hard won freedom

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for a return to an old-style regime.

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It seemed that the nation needed a new father figure.

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(helicopter blades whirring)

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The police returned in full force

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and everyone cheered them on.

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The same police they had chased from the streets

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three years ago.

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Had people forgotten how they had suffered

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at the hands of the police in the past?

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♪

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I could always tell when something was weighing heavily

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on my father''s conscience.

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Watching this scene, I wondered what side he would have chosen.

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♪

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Abu Habiba was still with the police,

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but I sense that the window that had opened between us

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was about to slam shut.

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♪

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I ask him to meet in Cairo one last time.

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♪

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(wind ruffling leaves)

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♪

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When we first met,

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he told me that he had left the police for moral reasons.

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Now I understood what he meant,

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that he had quit his job because he had been mistreated

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by a superior officer.

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♪

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Abu Habiba contradicted himself

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as if he were erasing the words he said three years ago.

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♪

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But like other Egyptians,

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he ultimately embraced military rule

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as a way to feel secure and to survive.

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♪

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The system that he was now standing for

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hadn''t just crushed the people,

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it has crushed him as well.

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For a while, we were allies.

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Now he may no longer be an ally,

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but neither is he my enemy.

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Not anymore.

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Maybe you have to lose a part of yourself

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and give up some of your beliefs

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in order to exist in such a country.

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♪

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My father was a principled man.

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But his fight against corruption

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was a battle that couldn''t be won by one man alone.

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♪

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That constant struggle eventually took a toll

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on his health and he died young because of it.

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♪

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After all these years,

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I understand why he kept his way of life secret from me.

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Because throughout, I had to keep my journey with Abu Habiba

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secret from my family, too.

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♪

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♪

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Nothing has turned out as I expected

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and this is not the ending I had hoped for.

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♪

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But If I could have, I would have written

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a different narrative for my country.

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♪

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♪