...A sense of pessimism—of defeat, even—was inescapable. In a line near the front door of the prison, a small group of people waiting to visit family members—some of whom had been swept up last week’s bloody raid on a pair of Muslim Brotherhood protest camps—acknowledged that the revolution was not going very well. But they kept their heads down and spoke in low voices, and when the door to the visitors’ entrance finally opened, they shuffled in without saying another word. The hush is not restricted to Tora; it has spread over all of Cairo. The boldness with which shopkeepers and taxi drivers used to vent their frustration at their government is being replaced, at least for the moment, by whispers and fears of being denounced as a traitor or terrorist sympathizer... newyorker/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/08/waiting-for-hosni-mubarak.html
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:12:52 +0000
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