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What's Next for Egypt?

Where do the June 30 protests leave President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood?
A protester opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi throws Molotov cocktails at the national headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo's Moqattam district June 30, 2013. Millions of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mursi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign in the biggest challenge so far to rule by his Muslim Brotherhood.  REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh  (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX117RC

It's safe to say that only a few of us might have seen this happening.

The sheer number of Egyptians who took to the streets and squares today in the scorching heat, and not even on a weekend even as usual for such protests, was the largest single protest in Egyptian history. There is absolutely no doubt about it.

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