Tahrir Square at night, viewed south-west from Talaat Harb Street.At the centre of Tahrir Square is a large and busy traffic circle. On the north-east side is a plaza with a statue of Ottoman Egypt-era Cairene Omar Makram, and beyond is the Omar Makram Mosque.[2]
The square is the northern terminus of the historic Qasr al-Ayn Street, the western end of Talaat Harb Street, and an via Qasr el-Nil Street across its south direct access to the Qasr al-Nil Bridge crossing the nearby Nile River.
The area around Tahrir Square includes the Egyptian Museum, the National Democratic Party-NDP headquarters building, the Mogamma government building, the Headquarters of the Arab League building, the Nile Hotel, and the original downtown campus of the American University in Cairo.
View north-west towards Tahrir Square from Qasr al-Ayn Street.The Cairo Metro serves Tahrir Square with the Sadat Station, which is the downtown junction of the system's two lines, linking to Giza, Maadi, Helwan, and other districts and suburbs of Greater Cairo. Its underground access viaducts provide the safest routes for pedestrians crossing the broad roads of the heavily trafficked square.
It sounds like there is a change today as the army tries to clear the square.
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