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As a direct connection to the popular surge of demand for democracy in the Arab world, the Egyptian pavilion honors young media artist/activist Ahmed Basiony ( 1978 – 2011). He was brutally murdered in Tahrir Square on January 28th, 2011 as he was filming the uprisings. The day before he had been beaten, but had […]