http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/02/egypt-hope-against-skepticism/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/02/egypt-hope-against-skepticism/comment-page-1/#comment-5614 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:29:41 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=2625#comment-5614 […] Here’s recent piece by one of the blog’s contributors, Hazem Kandil, on the situation in Egypt. Revolutions break our heart, whether they fail or succeed. Will Egypt’s revolution escape this grim prophecy, or will it follow the ‘human, all too human’ pattern of disappointment and betrayal that has haunted the great majority of human revolts? Cautious observers along the Nile banks and elsewhere are waiting anxiously for Egypt to recover from its revolutionary hangover and comfort them by answering a simple question: Did the Internet savvy demonstrators accidentally push the restart button? Is this July 1952 all over again? Read More […]

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