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10 years after Arab Spring protests, Egyptians grapple with the fallout of a failed revolution Nahlah Ayed © Nahlah Ayed/CBC Anti-government demonstrators hoist the Egyptian flag during the Arab Spring protests in 2011. It s been one cruel decade since Egyptians dared to disrupt the status quo of living in a suffocating police state. The first month of 2011 was marked by the early days of Egypt s uprising, part of a wave of Arab Spring protests that many saw as brave, hopeful and inevitable. Now, with a pandemic capping off a decade of violence, horror and mass displacement in the Middle East, the protests in Tahrir Square are, at best, consciously forgotten by skeptical Egyptians as a naïve footnote or, at worst, cursed as original sin.

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