‘We were given, we were vouchsafed, eighteen golden days; eighteen days when we all pulled together to get rid of the head of the regime that was destroying us and our country and everything we held dear; eighteen days that brought out the best in us and showed us not just what we could do but how we could be. And it was this way of ‘being’, as well as what it achieved, that captured the imagination of the world; that made the Egyptian revolution an inspiration for the people’s movements that are crystallising across the planet. Every Egyptian I know is both proud of this and humbled by it. I know I am.’

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