Mubarak must go!  poster, Nick Bygon, Egypt, 2011  The Egyptian Revolution in 2011, part of the greater Arab Spring, was a large-scale movement organized as a demonstration against violence and corruption that had grown drastically over Hosni Mubarak's presidency. Millions of civilians from a broad spectrum of religious and socio-economic backgrounds united to protest high unemployment, state sanctioned violence, corruption, inflation, and low wages.  The clash of protesters and security forces resulted in almost 900 civilian casualties and over 6,000 injuries. Protesters burned police stations in retaliation to the violence, and defied a government imposed curfew. Labor unions organized strikes, and the public kept pressure on the government. As a result of the sustained civil resistance, Mubarak resigned in February 2011.
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