Happy Revolution Day Everybody...

It is our ‘national day’! It’s only 4am here, just before Morning Prayer time, so it is too early to see the crowds celebrating on the streets. {smile}

52 years ago the Free Officers Movement (middle-class nationalists) staged a coup, threw out the Royalty and forgot about their promises to create a democracy, thus setting the stage for an authoritarian system that prevail to this day. Or as the state-run Al-Ahram Weekly explains:

“…yet to complete what many view as a long delayed process of transition to full democracy.”