"Maybe this is how I go, how I die. I've had a good life."

That is what British journalist Natasha Smith thought to herself as a mob of men sexually assaulted her near Tahrir Square in Cairo.

Terrified in Tahrir Square ... Natasha Smith thought she was going to die.

Smith, who is an associate editor in the Middle East for the Fair Observer, wrote about the men who surrounded her with "bared teeth and raging eyes" on a blog, which has been shared around the world.

She described walking with two male friends this week when a crowd turned and, in an instant, men began dragging her away.