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Activists in Egypt call for an uprising in their own country
To protest against poverty, unemployment, government corruption and the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power for three decades, Egyptians started spreading into the streets and Tahrir square for a long time aiming the attention to their needs. This is considered to be the starting point of the whole revolution because it is when similar ideas started grouping and forming one big influential movement inspired by a neighboring country. -
Revolting through media
Internet and mobile phone text message users in Egypt report major disruption to services as the country prepares for a new wave of protests after Friday. Social media was a very effective tool in the spreading of ideas of the revolution, which eventually led to greater numbers participating. -
Muslim brotherhood joins the crowd
The Muslim Brotherhood says in a statement that it "has decided to participate in a dialogue round in order to understand how serious the officials are in dealing with the demands of the people". This is when the problems actually started because the Muslim brotherhood is a fundamental group that is supported by different figures which adds skepticism to the revolution. -
Mubarak resigns
After tens of thousands people take to the streets across Egypt in angry protests, Hosni Mubarak resigns as president and hands over power to the army. This does not really change much because the army supported Mubarak and defended him, but things do not get real for Mubarak until he is arrested. -
constitutional amendments
Egyptians cast ballots on constitutional amendments. This was very necessary as a sign of moving on, and making a change showing that they do not want any of what the previous regime has done. This was a smart step when talking about the rest of the world and how they reacted towards the success of the revolution, but it is obvious that they did not think deeply about these amendments and their effects. -
Egypt holds multistage parliamentary elections
These elections implied a very important prediction of what is going to happen because clearly the Muslim brotherhood won nearly half the seats which kind of impressing, but keeping in mind that they are a huge group, it would be easy for them to do that, and since they got the power in Tunisia, it is also obvious that Egypt is next. -
The supreme constitutional court orders the dissolving
The supreme constitutional court orders the dissolving of the lower house and parliament. Again, this is an act to get rid of leftovers from previous regime led by Hosni Mubarak. -
The first round of voting presidential elections
Mohammed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq were the last two nominated presidents. Some people in the Tahrir square protested because they considered Ahmed Shafiq -as part of the army at Mubarak's time- a "folul" which means that he will not make a difference and will apply the same things Hosni Mubarak has applied before him, and they did not want Mursi because he is part of the Muslim brotherhood which most Egyptians do not like because of their restrictions on religion. -
Mursi takes his oath of office
This was basically Mohammed Mursi winning the elections with a very small difference in votes percentages against Ahmed Shafiq who offended the Muslim brotherhood several times in order to win. Some Egyptians were not pleased about what happened since they wanted the president to come out of the square, but their nominated president lost, so they were faced with a painful truth. -
Another revolution
Although Mohammad Mursi ruled for a year only. : Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, an Egyptian General who has been Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, as well as Minister of Defense, started encouraging people to go against the current president Mohammad Mursi regarding the constitutional changes and economic unproductivity.
