Contemporary Egypt: between 1.1 reform and continuity

With the fall of Hosni Mubarak on February 11th 2011, a new phase in contemporary Egypt’s history began, filled with hope but also uncertainty. After eighteen days of protests and the pressure from the street at unsustainable levels, President Mubarak was finally forced to step down from power. The following chapter does not analyze the current transition process, but it does offer indicators and keys to understanding the internal correlation between the different forces that make up the regime and their role in the transition process at the time this book went to press.