


Egyptian Revolution (2011-12)
Too Soon To Judge Egypt's Revolution

You can see what the Egyptian revolution has achieved, 20 months on, by visiting Menoufia, a rural area of the Nile Delta that was the birthplace of the deposed dictator, Hosni Mubarak: Everything is different outwardly, but beneath the surface, almost nothing has changed yet. The revolution's impact is most obvious in the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood won the parliamentary elections here, even in this former regime stronghold. And people seem free to say what they think, including sharp criticism of the new president, Mohamed Morsi, in a way that would have been unthinkable before. The chaos has eased, too. Security is better than it was in the months after the revolution. The...