NonviolentConflict
Published on Oct 24, 2018
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In 2011, fed up with rigged elections, police brutality, and rampant corruption, Egyptians rose up against Hosni Mubarak, their president of 30 years. For 18 days, protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square electrified the world. When Mubarak was forced out, the goal of a free and democratic Egypt seemed within reach.
But young democracy activists were disorganized, lacking leadership and political experience. Egypt’s powerful military, allied with the Muslim Brotherhood, staged elections, in which Islamists took parliament, and the Brotherhood candidate, Mohamed Morsi, won the presidency in 2012.
Within a year, Morsi’s deep unpopularity handed the military an opportunity to oust him. General El-Sisi, who led the coup, was later elected president, ushering in a wave of repression worse than under Mubarak. Egyptians seemed to have chosen stability over democracy and human rights — but whether the revolution was crushed or merely interrupted remains to be decided.
(Submitted by David Hartsough.)