33 Million People Unite For Change

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Guardian.co.uk, By: Jack Shenker, 07/02/2013

Protesters in Tahrir Square

New arrivals at Cairo airport are greeted with advertising billboards bearing the rhetoric of a concluded revolution: grainy images of people power overwritten with congratulatory quotes from foreign leaders, sealed with the logos of mobile phone networks and commercial banks. Yet to the dismay of politicians and corporate executives, it seems that Egypt's grassroots revolt refuses to remain in its neatly packaged box. Millions are once again on the streets of the Arab world's most populous country. Walking among them on Sunday – for hours and hours, down road after road, all of them filled with human energy – it was easy to forget that there had ever been talk of protest fatigue.

 

Amid the cacophony, commentators have struggled to draw the battle lines in a political landscape that stubbornly resists simple explication. To understand what's happening in Egypt, it's important to distinguish between at least two separate struggles that are playing out, the outcomes of which will shape Egypt's ongoing revolution for some time to come.

 

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