Egypt Springs Again
Al-Monitor’s coverage of the pro-democracy movements in Egypt and Turkey.
The past week in the Middle East brought much-anticipated protests in Egypt and ongoing assessment of what the Taksim Square-Gezi Park protests mean for Turkey going forward.
Egyptians Rally Against Morsi
Mohannad Sabry, reporting from Cairo, writes that the June 30 demonstrations against President Mohammed Morsi make the January 2011 demonstrations that brought down former president Hosni Mubarak “look like a minor protest”:
Passing by police stations and security checkpoints, protesters shook the hands of machine-gun-yielding officers and soldiers who waved victory signs at the marching crowds….
