22/09/2020
Does Egyptian army contractor Mohamed Ali really have a magic wand?
If you believe that the Egyptian army contractor Mohamed Ali has a magic wand with which he can persuade millions of people to protest against President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, then this article is definitely not for you. However, if you believe in the inevitability of cumulative change through continuous waves of protest, then you need to read on. What happened on 20 September? Was it really a revolution? Did five million Egyptians take to the streets, as Ali claimed? The most important question is: Did Al-Sisi leave? For answers, we must look at the expectations and the reality of the Egyptian political scene before we can evaluate and analyse what happened. Mohamed Ali?s calls for mass...
