The people-driven winds of change blow through Egypt and its Middle Eastern and North African neighbours will hopefully lead to improved leadership across the region. It is difficult to imagine what the average person on the street must be thinking in a country that has been characterised by submission to a ruler since the times of the pharoahs (how else would these remarkable temples such as the pictured 2,000 year old Edfu Temple have been so effectively built) and that has undergone remarkably few dramatic political changes in its long history.
Is the population that has booted out the Mubarak regime ready to voice and express their opinions for a new inclusive leadership where the elected officials govern for the population and not simply themselves? What of the other countries in the region? Only time will tell...
Monday, February 21, 2011
Photo of the Week: The Winds of Change in Egypt
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I think we all wait, watch, wonder, and hope. It's so hard to tell what's going to happen to the whole region. I've been in Jordan and Lebanon for the last two months and there is s mixture of hope and concern. The conspiracy theorists say that some other 'organization' is pulling the strings around the region. But I have to believe that it's not true - I don't think it's that highly orchestrated. However that doesn't mean that a group couldn't take advantage of the situation in the region. Time will tell...
Hoping and praying that the people of the region can begin creating their own history rather than simply survive it.
Not really much "conspiracy theory" is needed to understand the huge international pressure on Middle East and Northern Africa. Mubarak was already a puppet, these revolutions look a little artificial and not exactly coming from the bottom, seems more like they're aimed at giving the illusion they started from the people, not sure about it, although it's 100% sure people are truly fed up with the bunch of dictators oppressing them.
We'll see how the situation evolves, although if Mubarak's successor will be Suleiman, there's room for very little or no change at all.
You're right, only time will tell.
@sherry: It must be interesting to watch it from so close. I agree that it isn't so well orchestrated but I am concerned about what leadership will move into the resulting vacuum.
@heather: well said.
@angela: I do think the people are having a bit more say - fed up people eventually can't take any more and will take action if they can. The Libyan situation shows that despite bloodshed there is still a determination - and Gaddafi has hardly been propped up by western patronage (I agree that several other leaders have been).
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