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By Ashraf Khalil
A definitive, absorbing account of the Egyptian revolution, written via a Cairo-based Egyptian-American reporter for Foreign coverage and the days (London), who witnessed firsthand Mubarak's loss of life and the country's efforts to construct a democracy
In early 2011, the world’s realization used to be riveted on Cairo, the place after 3 many years of supremacy, Hosni Mubarak was once pushed from strength. It used to be a revolution as speedy because it was explosive. For eighteen days, anger, defiance, and resurgent nationwide satisfaction reigned within the streets---protestors of every age struck again opposed to police and country protection, united towards the typical aim of liberation.
But the revolution was once greater than a spontaneous rebellion. It was once the outcome of years of mounting rigidity, because of a nation that shamelessly abused its authority, rigging elections, silencing competition, and violently attacking its electorate. while revolution bloomed within the quarter in January 2011, Egypt was once a rustic whose endurance had expired---with a humans all of sudden primed for liberation.
As a journalist established in Cairo, Ashraf Khalil was once an eyewitness to the suitable hurricane that introduced down Mubarak and his regime. Khalil used to be subjected to rip gasoline along protestors in Tahrir sq., slightly escaped an enraged mob, and witnessed the day by day advancements from the frontlines. From the halls of strength to the again alleys of Cairo, he bargains a distinct examine a country within the throes of an uprising.
Liberation Square is a revealing and dramatic examine the revolution that reworked the fashionable background of 1 of the world’s oldest civilizations.
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In September 1999, Egyptians witnessed the unforgettable spectacle of the nation’s final single-candidate presidential referendum. As with the previous votes in 1987 and 1993, the outcome was never in doubt; it wasn’t even really the point of the exercise. The point was to burnish Mubarak’s legacy as he completed his second decade in power—glorifying him in a manner that would have done his pharaonic predecessors proud. This time the regime really pulled out all the stops. The months that preceded the vote featured an orgy of praise for the president so completely over the top that it would have made Saddam Hussein blush with embarrassment.
All Egyptians had to enter a police station at some point,” said Haitham Mesbah, a supervisor at a clothing factory in Alexandria and a close friend of Khaled Saieed—the young man whose public beating death at the hands of police in June 2010 helped galvanize citizens and laid one of the final seeds for the revolution. “There’s not a single Egyptian who entered a police station without some sort of garbage happening. At the very least [you] would have to pay a bribe. You would be walking down the street and they take your ID card and it costs you LE20 to get it back.
Domestically, Mubarak faced immediate problems, with the ongoing threat of militant Islamist groups and with his country’s crumbling infrastructure. The Islamists were dealt with through a combination of an ongoing (and generally popular) security crackdown that drove them out of the capital and into the rural south, and by continuing Sadat’s policy of quietly encouraging radical youth to seek their jihadist dreams in Afghanistan. The infrastructure issues were partially handled through the now-blossoming post–Camp David relationship with the United States.