Three years after the start of the 2011 revolution, many of the young secular activists who led the protests are behind bars.
Others have gone silent, afraid to speak out as the military and the ousted Muslim Brotherhood are locked in a battle for Egypt itself.
For most of those revolutionaries, this is a dark and bitter time.
"The moment we entered Tahrir remains the most significant moment of my entire life, because I physically felt a wall being broken down, a wall of fear that they're working very hard at rebuilding," says Noor Nour, son of prominent Egyptian politician Ayman Nour and one of dozens of young activists who rose to fame during the 2011 uprising. "But at least I got a chance to see that break, so no regrets."
Nour's life since that day has been a series of protests — against President Hosni Mubarak, then against human rights abuses under military rule. He took to the streets again last year to protest what he saw as the increasingly autocratic style of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Now Morsi, like Mubarak, has been ousted. The military is back in control, and it's stifling dissenting voices. Nour's father, a one-time presidential candidate in 2005, has left the country.
Nour has decided to temporarily step away from protests. He's become an environmentalist.
"Some of my friends joked about the fact that I went from one almost impossible cause which is ... the protection of human rights, to the protection of the environment," he says.
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