Diamond on Egypt’s ban of revolution film

RTR2PF8Q logo A protester waves an Egyptian flag while standing on a light pole in Tahrir square in Cairo July 29, 2011.
In The Atlantic, CDDRL Director Larry Diamond and filmmaker Jeff Shank discuss The Square, an Oscar-nominated documentary film about the Egyptian revolution that has been banned in Egypt. Both Diamond and Shank argue that the country’s democratic hopes have been betrayed by the very autocracies that arose from the actions at Tahrir Square.