Soltan took a break from his school when the 2011 revolution broke out and went to Egypt to join the youth-driven revolution for freedom. He and his friends at Ohio State University created shirts for the youth coalition to wear at the entrances to Cairo's Tahrir Square. Soltan joined the sit-in in Tahrir Square and was on the frontline at the presidential palace in Egypt when President Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down. Weeks after, Soltan returned to the U.S. and toured university campuses to speak about his experience during the revolution.