And Free Flows the Nile
Will Egypt’s revolution travel beyond the Nile? This is the question that now haunts not only other Arab lands, but also governments from Washington to Beijing as they scramble to re-evaluate decades-old strategic certainties.
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NEW DELHI – For 18 days, during the ebb and flow of protest, it did not seem possible that the end of the Egyptian Revolution would come so suddenly, in a terse announcement that lasted no more than a half-minute: “President Hosni Mubarak has relinquished office….” With that, amidst roars of victory, an era was ended, reaffirming the old saying that “the graveyards of the world are full of those who considered themselves indispensable to their nations.”