My second year here in Cairo started a few days ago while I was in China to do some workshops and a lecture. This might be a sign for the future.
Protests started again at the GUC and there are surveillance cameras everywhere. No step can be done without being watched by an artifical eye. Most of the students just want to study and to learn, others just want to have their student union election. Yesterday marks the first day with real clashes between security and some students. The state media reported, that the security attacked students. There seems to be some proof, that this is not true. Nevertheless we can read the report as a sign, that the direction of the storm has changed and that it is now blowing into GUC’s face.
We will see.