that's our gamal: modest, as usual. ah, look. here is el sayed malaad. we must say hello. gamal. we will talk later. sure. congratulations, my friend. we wish you the best of luck in your new business. oh, gamal. why didn't you say something ? i'm sorry, but i couldn't just tell them the truth ! when they knew me, i was an important civil engineer, and now i'm just a handyman. you should not be ashamed of what you do. you work very hard. i'm proud of you. so, it was only a small lie. what harm could it possibly do ? [ narrator ] victor valenski and john waco: two men who found themselves without a job... for very different reasons. victor valenski was a university professor... before he moved to the united states 14 months ago. right now i'm a pizza man and driver... because it's very difficult... to find job in my profession. [ narrator ] john waco was caug in the layoffs... that devastated the aerospace industry. he had been ouof work for two years when he heard about a retraining program... for engineers who had lost their jobs. i was contacted by the redeployment center at no

. >> on december 17th, 2011 an engineering student named mohammed gamal zadan is with a group of friendsutside a hotel in central cairo. >> translator: that time i went up in the hotel and i thought i would try to go in with my colleagues and try to see what's happening and see it from above and try to film it. >> looking through the lens, mohammed sees a group of protesters fleeing from security forces. two of the protesters, including a woman dressed in the traditional muslim abaya, fall down. and are beaten by baton-wielding soldiers. the soldiers stomp on the woman. as the beating progresses, her clothing falls off, exposing her undergarments. >> translator: i couldn't believe it when what happened to this woman happened. how did this human being do this? he didn't think that this could have been his sister, his mother? >> it's basically soldiers just gone absolutely insane. there's just dozens of them around this one woman. and a few people who tried to come to her rescue. and they're just beating and stomping on her like she's some kind of wild animal she's trying to control. it's

have wedding party, blogging wedding parties for this because it was their way of saying so long, gamalbut the young women pioneered in a number of ways. they were protesting political repression, police torture and sexual harassment in their blogs and in their youtube videos. and, you know, the arab world is still a somewhat gender-segregated society. some parts of it are very gender-segregated, some parts not so much. cairo university campus is a place where women and men mingle. a lot of it is gender segregated. for a woman to come out in public and get a hearing is difficult. but they could go on youtube, and this generation is very educated. many of them are very eloquent, and they could make these youtube rapts. they went -- rants. they went viral. and, actually, the call for young people to gather in tahrir square on january 25, 2011, on the anniversary -- it's on police day. the it's a good day to have the demonstrations because the police are off. [laughter] and they're celebrating their day. but the one who made that call was a member of the april 6th youth group, a young woma