Egypt’s Tahrir Square gets a makeover, or whitewashing
CAIRO, Egypt — Depending on who you ask, Tahrir Square is either getting a makeover or it’s being airbrushed. In less than a week, the Cairo municipality transformed the square, made famous as the center of the protests that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak. Fresh grass and flowering shrubs now blanket the dirt-laden center divider, which…
