Inspired by true events, "Embassy Down" unfolds in 2011 and charts the takeover of the Israeli embassy in Cairo's Tahrir Square in Egypt, amid the Arab Spring, a time of revolts in Arab countries.

In his memoir, “‘Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew ... it had once again become unsafe. When the Arab Spring erupted in 2010, he was flooded with memories — history was ...

From the nationalist fervor of the 1919 revolution to the chants of “Bread, Freedom, Social justice” in Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring, dissent has long been a civic ritual in Egypt.