Nearly 100 people lined West End in front of Centennial Park early Tuesday evening. They held signs and chanted to show their support for the thousands of people protesting the leadership of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.
Protesters have occupied Tahrir Square and other parts of Cairo since January 25. They are calling for Mubarak to leave office and for Egypt to democratically elect a new leader.
"We're standing in solidarity with the Egyptian people," Elizabeth Barger said as she prepared to demonstrate along West End.
Many Egyptian immigrants lined the street. Sogr Hanna came to the United States because of the conditions in Egypt. She would like to see Mubarak leave office.
"I come here because I no need Hosni Mubarak more president," Hanna said in broken English.
Many likened what is happening in Egypt to America's revolution against Britain.
"Egypt is marching for freedom, not for anything else, it's marching for democracy," according to Zainab Elberry, who came to the United States from Egypt in 1969.
Assistant Davidson County District Attorney Dina Shabayek is keeping a close eye on what is transpiring in Cairo.
She has many family members who live in the city, and who are caught in the middle of the two week long protest.
Shabayek's two aunts live in high rise apartment buildings across the street from each other. The protests started during a dinner they were having together.
"She was unable to cross the street to get back to her apartment. So she was stuck over at my aunt's house for about a week," Shabayek explained.
Another of Shabayek's aunts was visiting the U.S. when the protests started in Egypt. She has decided to delay her return home until the unrest settles in Cairo and it is safer to walk the streets.
Now that the Egyptian government is allowing citizens to use the Internet again, Shabayek's mother has begun Skyping with family members about the conditions in Cairo.
