Egyptian women stood on an equal footing with men to demand freedom
Nisreen was young, brave and full of hope for the new Egypt she was in the process of creating.It was 6 February 2011 and she, like hundreds of other women, was sleeping in Tahrir Square to physically protect it from the Mubarak-government forces trying to take it back.
Nisreen told me that day she believed that after the uprising things had changed for women in Egypt. She felt safe in the square she told me because "There is no harassment".
So she was ready to stay "one day, one week, one month, one year" to topple the regime. She didn't have to wait that long for President Hosni Mubarak to go.
His regime was already crumbling. But her hopes, shared by many others, that things had changed for women would be brutally disappointed.
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