18 Days in Egypt

With only a few days left before the first anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, some  are feeling quite nostalgic about peaceful protests that led to the end of the Mubarak era. The website 18 Days in Egypt is the latest online attempt to capture those memories from those who who witnessed and documented the revolution firsthand through videos, pictures, tweets and personal accounts. Launched on January 19, 18 Days in Egypt is a collaborative documentary project that uses the new platform GroupStream, an innovative way for online group-story-telling. “For the first time in history, citizens are recording an actual revolution in real time. Throughout the 18 days of the 2011 uprising, in the year since and now, Egyptians are filming pivotal events on their cell phones, taking pictures, texting, tweeting and Facebooking their extraordinary bid for freedom,” reads the website. If you want to share your own story on the website, you first sign up by connecting your account through Twitter, Facebook, Google, Yahoo or Open ID. You then choose a day, either out of the 18 days of the revolution or the events afterwards, and tell your story on that day accompanied by the pictures, videos, or whatever media you prefer. Some of the entries submitted include the battles of Kasr Al-Aini bridge on January 28, a compilation of the revolutionary songs and chants, and stories from the makeshift civilian checkpoint, better know to us as legan shaabeya. Other seminal events documented thus far include the first day of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's trial and the first day of parliamentary elections. Check out the website at; http://beta.18daysinegypt.com/#/ and contribute your own story or relive the 18 days that kept the country, and the world for that matter, on its toes.