01 February 2020

From the Archives: The Re-Birth of a Nation...

"Liberty and union, one and inseparable, now and forever!"


I keep having this recurring thought: After the celebrations end, the CNN troops withdraw from the land, and the sentimental speeches from foreign heads of state come to a close, what is left?

Over 300 dead shahidin minimized to a statue erected in their honour?
Spatially, a downtown square already envisioned as the Freedom Square, re-crowned "Tahrir Sq."?
An already ailing, aged ruler whose fatal flaw has been pride and a reluctance to acknowledge reality?
A power vacuum, leaving the "new Egypt" vulnerable to whomever has the loudest voice?
And a nation of almost 85 million who never imagined that they would live to see such radical change in a country


February 14, 2011

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