29 Oct 2015, 7:50 pm
I have been watching a documentary on Netflix about the 2011 uprising in Egypt that booted a nearly 30-year, well-entrenched regime out of power (Hosni Mubarak). I think I already put a thread on the arab spring a while ago but I cannot find it. And since I'm sick of talking about Hillary Clinton and the @#$! that is US presidential politics, why not revisit the issue anyway.
The people in the documentary seemed pretty optimistic. Factional differences were forgotten and they just jammed into Tahrir Square demanding justice and an end to the Mubarak regime.
But a lot of revolutions have started this way, haven't they? And how have they ended? What is the state of Egypt under the present President who, after a rather "comfortable" interval, has finally allowed parliamentary elections to proceed. He had been managing the country under a provisional government for quite a while.
This is the same president who overthrew the regime of Mohammed Morsi, as general-in-chief of the Egyptian Army. Mohammed Morsi was democratically-elected but only lasted a year before the army intervened and overthrew him.
Do the Egyptian People still have the same sort of voice in politics that they had, however fleeting the moment, in January to February, 2011? Or will it be another 30 years before the exact same cycle repeats itself?
The people in the documentary seemed pretty optimistic. Factional differences were forgotten and they just jammed into Tahrir Square demanding justice and an end to the Mubarak regime.
But a lot of revolutions have started this way, haven't they? And how have they ended? What is the state of Egypt under the present President who, after a rather "comfortable" interval, has finally allowed parliamentary elections to proceed. He had been managing the country under a provisional government for quite a while.
This is the same president who overthrew the regime of Mohammed Morsi, as general-in-chief of the Egyptian Army. Mohammed Morsi was democratically-elected but only lasted a year before the army intervened and overthrew him.
Do the Egyptian People still have the same sort of voice in politics that they had, however fleeting the moment, in January to February, 2011? Or will it be another 30 years before the exact same cycle repeats itself?
