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Thanassis Cambanis is a journalist writing a book about Egypt after Mubarak. He is the author of A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel. He is a columnist for The Boston Globe, and a regular contributor to The Atlantic, The New York Times, and other publications.
Egypt's Revolutionary Elite and the Silent Majority
It was a small group that set out on January 25, marching on National Police Day to decry the quotidian indignities they suffered at the hands of Husni Mubarak’s abusive police. Public protest in Egypt had long been a minority practice, rarely mustering more than a few hundred, or at best a few thousand, core movement activists. The organizers of the January 25 march expected the same base of dedicated demonstrators, and were shocked when the crowd swelled to more than 10,000.
