During the first 18 days of the Egyptian revolution, Egyptians were documenting one of the most important historical movements in their countries’ history through tweets, photos and thousands and thousands of hours of video. The world was witness to the frontlines of history in the making.

18DaysinEgypt is a collaborative web-documentary about the ongoing Egyptian revolution which calls on the community to tell their story of the ongoing revolution using their own media such as their photos, videos, tweets Facebook posts – creating a living history project written by the people.

The website launched on January 19th, 2012 and collected over 1,000 stories from the community and from our team of on-the-ground fellows who bridge the digital divide in Egypt to collect stories from the “offline” Egyptian community.

18DaysInEgypt is an ongoing project collaboratively documenting a living history of an ongoing revolution by those who are there. If journalism is the “rough draft of history,” 18DaysInEgypt is a “raw draft of history” of a story that’s still in the making.

The project led to the establishment of a citizen journalism incubation program called The Egypt Journalism Project in 2013.