Reacting to the protests that have erupted in the capital and other cities,… Mubarak… urged calm, adding that only because of his own reforms over the years were people able to protest.
Mona El Tahawy, an Egyptian columnist and author living in… the US, dismissed these comments.
“There is no political freedom in Egypt, that’s exactly why the protests happened,” she said.
We should be thanking Mubarak, our bad
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