One thing that should I think be borne in mind is that there are really three groups in contention (literally) in Egypt, rather than the two sided tug of war most of us are used to. Of course on the ground it's undoubtedly more nuanced than that, but three major blocks is the largest simplification possible; two is too few.
There is the secular opposition, there is the Brotherhood and then there is the old Mubarak establishment, including the army. That makes the picture more complicated than right vs. left, Suni vs. Shia, secular vs. religious. And that's before one considered the interests of external parties like the US...
We live in interesting times.
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