looking south down the Nile

All right, here’s an orientational photo. Sorry for the low camera quality of the iPhone, but at least this is a fresh photo taken just minutes ago.

I’m on the 26th of July Bridge, just east of Zamalek, looking southward down the Nile toward the center of the city.

The tall building at left with the large antenna is State TV Headquarters, which you’ve read a lot about in the news. Military presence is somewhat light elsewhere, but massive around the TV building, with at least two dozen tanks and armored personnel carriers surrounding it.

See the boat on the Nile? Go straight above it to the moderately tall building in the distance. That’s National Democratic Party (NDP) Headquarters, set ablaze by protestors multiple times early in the revolution. It’s so burned out that you can see the sky right through it (though not from this angle). Not sure what will happen to the building, but the NDP is likely to be abolished.

Harder to see is a low orange building with a dome, just to the left of NDP Headquarters. That’s the Egyptian Museum, and right behind it is Tahrir Square.

Midway between the TV building and the NDP Headquarters you’ll see another very tall building. That’s the Ramses Hilton. The 3,000 thugs assembled just behind it with their camels, horses, whips, and knives, just before attacking the unarmed protestors in the square on February 2, in what for me was perhaps the most sickening of all the sickening things that happened during the 18 days of unrest.