Egypt's SCAF may scrap constitutional council - Middle East. Egypt: Return to Tahrir - People & Power. By reporter Elizabeth Jones Last weekend, in response to the fresh outbreak of deadly violence in Cairo, Egypt's newly-appointed prime minister, Kamal el-Ganzouri, announced that those involved in the clashes were "not the youth of the revolution". These protests, he suggested, were in fact a "counter-revolution". The prime minister's words must have come as a shock to Mossaab Shahrour, a 20-year-old student and kitchen fitter from the 6th of October City - a satellite city outside Cairo. Today Mossaab is walking with the help of a crutch. He was badly beaten outside the cabinet offices last Friday by soldiers wielding wooden poles and iron bars. His close friend, 22-year-old Ahmed Mansoor, a recent graduate in media studies, was killed in the same attack when he was shot in the head.
I first met Mossaab in the secret headquarters of the April 6 Youth Movement last January. "Of course it was worth it for freedom," he insists. Most Egyptians seemed content that they did. In Pictures: Tahrir square burns - Features. Clashes erupted again in Tahrir Square after Egypt's security forces moved to retake control of the area - killing nine and wounding over 300. There were simultaneous protests in Tahrir Square and in front of nearby cabinet offices.
Protesters had been camped outside of the offices since November 25 when they branched off from the larger demonstrations in Tahrir Square. After security forces began erecting razor wire barriers on access roads in the area, protesters began throwing stones and molotov cocktails against troops and police. Protesters soon fled into side streets to escape the assault - troops were heavily beating protesters and live ammunition was fired.
According to witnesses, the army used unnecessary force and once they charged at protesters they beat whoever was in their way - youth, elderly people and food and drink vendors on the square. Soldiers also pulled down the tents set up in Tahrir square and set them on fire, violently dispersing remaining protesters. Egypt: The More Things Change... Oxford, UK - The spectre of revolution was imminent. Rising food prices, unemployment and dissatisfaction with corrupt authoritarian regimes had all reached a boiling point, and within months the upheaval had shaken all corners of the continent. The year was 1848 and the countries in revolt were France, Italy, Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and the German states as well as a half dozen others that had not blossomed into full-fledged revolution.
But after a few symbolic victories - Louis Philippe abdicated in France; Hungary achieved momentary independence from Austria - the uprisings were quashed and the old order resurrected once again. In the words of historian Peter Stearns, "the revolutions of 1848 were short and very nearly stillborn". But the revolution that has left the Old Guard in the best position to reassert itself - and upon which the success or failure of the revolutions of 2011 may well be judged - is Egypt's January 25 uprising. Democratic discontent. Egypt: Revolution in progress - Empire. What has become of the Egyptian revolution after the initial euphoria of Tahrir Square? Whilst the world's attention may have shifted, Egypt is still on the march.
The revolutionaries remain determined to keep up the momentum as new parties jockey for power and the old guard battles to preserve its influence. Egyptians know what is at stake and are determined to get it right, but different groups are competing amongst themselves to set the agenda. Will the military accept a new system that enshrines power in the hands of civilians? Whose economic model can Egypt emulate? And will an emergent Egypt once again play a dominant role in the region? Egypt has begun the tortuous route out of decades of autocratic rule, as the revolution that inspired the world continues to evolve.
Empire brings together seasoned intellectuals and unrepentant militants to take stock of what has been achieved so far, and discuss what happens next. Vote Compass Egypt. Anger in Egypt. Egypt military break-up Alexandria protests - Middle East. Egyptian military police fired shots in the air and beat demonstrators blocking a main road in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, witnesses said, in a move that could further sour relations between the army and civilians. Friday's events were a rare display of violence in two weeks of largely peaceful protests in Alexandria, Cairo and Suez following a court decision to free on bail 10 policemen accused of killing protesters during the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in February.
Witnesses told the Reuters news agency that the clash in Alexandria erupted after hundreds of protesters blocking the coastal road near the army's northern command headquarters refused to leave the area. Police fired shots in the air and charged demonstrators who responded by hurling stones at them. "The military police are firing in the air. They are also beating protesters with batons and kicking them hard," a witness said.
Growing mistrust But activists said this was not enough.
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