The Making of the Egyptian People’s Revolution

The Making of the Egyptian People’s Revolution

from Foreign Policy Journal by Deepak Tripathi

These are days of reckoning for Hosni Mubarak and those associated with the Egyptian regime in and outside the country. The outpouring of a million or more people in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez, and across the country repeats a familiar lesson


Deepak Tripathi is the author of Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism (Potomac Books, Incorporated, Washington, D.C., 2011) and Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan (also Potomac, 2010). Read more articles by Deepak Tripathi.