Laura Gribbon is a graduate in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She has been living in downtown Cairo for extended periods of time since January 2011. Laura is a contributor to the volume ‘Translating Egypt’s Revolution’, edited by Samia Mehrez (AUC Press, 2012), and has been writing more recently about narrative and visual constructions and deconstructions of Egypt’s political martyrs.