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OPEN
SEASON
The same combination of ills
that catalyzed the revolution
remains — poverty, joblessness,
disgust over corruption and anger over human rights violations
— yet the public yearning for
stability appears to be the paramount concern.
“I don’t accept going against
the government now,” says Kamel, the housewife who joined
the protests against Mubarak
three years ago. “We have to
build our constitution. We have
to put things in order.”
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She sees the scores of arrests as
realities of Egypt’s current tumult.
Rules are rules, she insists, even
rules limiting the ability to protest.
“If your house is ruined, you
have to build pillars first, and
then you hire guards outside
your building,” she says, analogizing this to the military’s roadmap for Egypt. “And then things
come in order.”
Ammar and his family have
become acquainted with the human costs of that order: potentially lengthy imprisonments and
uncertainty.
Though he may be outspoken,
he is also inclined to stay on the
U.S.
Secretary of
State John
Kerry, left,
shakes hands
with General
Abdel Fattah
al-Sissi on
March 3,
2013. AlSissi is a
potential
presidential
contender in
Egypt today.