Oscar-Nominated Film Examines Egyptian Uprising
The Egyptian uprising that began on January 25, 2011 and unseated President Hosni Mubarak, a decades-long autocrat, is three years old. Many people have written about it, and filmmakers have chronicled it. Now comes an unusual documentary, "The Square," which takes an intimate view of the events and has been nominated for an Oscar, the first Egyptian film to receive this honor.