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MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): Charles Sennott, founding editor of the online news site GlobalPost, was among dozens of Western journalists in Egypt during the February uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
Reporting for a FRONTLINE documentary, Sennott spent days in Tahrir Square talking with the protesters, from the young Facebook crowd to members of the Muslim Brotherhood. In July, Sennott returned to Cairo as a second wave of Tahrir Square protests was under way, mostly directed at the Military Council that's now running the country.
He has written a piece, with accompanying video, for GlobalPost and FRONTLINE's website. And he joins us now.
And, Charlie, welcome back.
CHARLES SENNOTT, GlobalPost: Thanks.
MARGARET WARNER: So, you went back five months after Mubarak was ousted. You went back to the square. What did you go looking for, and what did you find?
CHARLES SENNOTT: We went looking for the same people we had gotten to know in the square during the revolution.
And they were from all walks of Egyptian life, Muslim Brotherhood. You had Coptic Christians, secular activists from the April 6 movement. But we basically wanted to check in with them and see where this revolution had come after six months.
And what we found was a lot of uncertainty and a lot of fractured movements, a lot of splintered parties, and a sense that the unity of Tahrir Square had -- had disappeared.
"Egypt's Unfinished Revolution: Revisiting Tahrir Square" by Charles M. Sennott, GlobalPost 8/17/2011
Sennott's article contains video interviews.
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