The Road to Tahrir
The Egyptian uprising of 2011 took the world by surprise, but the revolt had been years in the making. The forces that came together with the common goal of toppling the regime of Hosni Mubarak were a result of a decade of mobilization and re-activation of Egyptian civil society. Back in the 1990s direct criticism of the regime, and particularly of President Hosni Mubarak, was virtually... Continue Reading