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How Egypt’s Rebel Movement Helped Pave The Way For A Sisi Presidency

How Egypt’s Rebel Movement Helped Pave The Way For A Sisi Presidency

“How did we go from such a small thing, five
guys trying to change Egypt, to the movement
which brought tens of millions to the street to
get rid of the Brotherhood? The answer is we
didn’t. I understand now it wasn’t us, we were
being used as the face of what something bigger
than us wanted,” said Doss, who now has nothing
to do with the Tamarod movement, or political
life in Egypt. “We were naïve, and we were not
responsible.”
 

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