Mariam Aziz heard gunshots through the phone as she talked to her best friend in Cairo at 5 a.m. on Jan. 29.
Her best friend, trapped in her apartment, was running out of food and did not know how to get more.
Aziz, an Egyptian sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been leading protests in D.C. throughout the week.
“I am anxiously awaiting the day when I cancel the events and instead march in celebration of freedom, of liberty, of democracy and dignity,” she said in an e-mail. “My heart has always broken for those who are killed everywhere in the world, but when its my home, it’s a whole different world. My eyes have dried up and all I can do is pray and protest.”
Her family is still in Cairo, where more than a hundred looters attacked their building on Jan. 28, trying to rob the first floor’s bank.
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