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Photograph by Mosa’ab Elshamy

Mosa’ab Elshamy is a 23-year-old freelance photographer in Cairo. Studying to be a pharmacist when the Egyptian revolution broke out in 2011, Elshamy joined the protests with his camera as a citizen journalist, covering the weekly demonstrations and clashes around Tahrir Square. Since then, the self-taught photographer’s work has been published by EPA, the Economist and Harper’s.

As the Egyptian police began firing on demonstrators in Cairo’s Rabaa Square, Elshamy documented the aftermath. He spoke with TIME’s Ashraf Khalil about the terror and trauma he witnessed this weekend. Read it here on LightBox.