Egypt’s Future: Freedom, Now What?

Egypt’s Future: Freedom, Now What?

February’s uncontrolled, enduring protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to remove longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were fueled by a fire ignited by social media. The Egyptians’ unyielding pursuit for long-deserved democracy at whatever costs, resulted in several hundreds injured and some killed. But in the end, the people won. In today’s New York Times article, “Polls Find Egyptians Hopeful About the Future,” Egyptians seem “extraordinarily confident and enthusiastic” about their first free and fair election. What direction will this mean for them? Sometimes those who’ve never had freedom and suddenly come to posses it without instruction on how to best use it, worse actions will follow. It is hoped the country is collectively successful. Only time will tell how freedom’s price is invested.

Highlighted Clip for Tuesday, April 26, 2011:"Poll Finds Egyptians Full of Hope About the Future"

By David D. Kirkpatrick and Mona El-Naggar

Egyptians are looking forward with extraordinary confidence and enthusiasm to their first free and fair elections this fall after the defining revolution of the Arab spring, according to the first major poll since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. But they remain deeply divided over the role of Islam in their public life.