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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Egypt’s Protests Explained [Watch (HLS stream): Egypt’s Protests Explained](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/43pIsul7.m3u8) (4:38)  _Published 2011-01-27. From Cairo, TIME correspondent Abigail Hauslohner reports on the recent protests against the government and provides a broader view of what is at stake for Egypt and US relations in the Middle East._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:09 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Why They Protest: Egypt, Libya and Syria](/video/4bPgDZLR/) ### Why They Protest: Egypt, Libya and Syria [Jubilant Egypt: Street Celebrations in Cairo](/video/vbuvecCC/) ### Jubilant Egypt: Street Celebrations in Cairo [Feeling Egypt's Pig Slaughter](/video/fWGD7w3j/) ### Feeling Egypt's Pig Slaughter --- ## Transcript >> I'm Abigail Hauslohner and I'm the correspondent for TIME in Cairo. Opposition to Mubarak's regime is pretty widespread and it has been for a while here. A lot of the people I talked to complain about rising prices, corruption, government repression, and lack of jobs, lack of opportunity. So, discontent has been brewing for a while and then I think when Tunisia happens, the Air World was really watching this revolution and a lot of people here say they were inspired by that. -[ Foreign Language ] >> There were over 90, 000 people who pledged online to attend the demonstration, but we've seen before in Egypt a lot of activism online or a lot of angry blogging and Twittering and Facebooking about this regime without a lot of action in the street. Egyptians have often said, " We are too fear to protest or too scared to protest against such a stronger regime ." And what Tuesday and Wednesday demonstrated is that that's not the case. Not only is not the case, but the fact that there were thousands of people willing go out into the street and face off against this incredibly strong police state showed other people that the fear barrier has been broken. -[ Foreign Language ] >> What was really remarkable about the thousands of people who turned out on Tuesday was that they sort of seem to span all of the political parties and the generation. There were young people, college students there who had heard about the protest on Facebook. There were older people there who were just fed up with high prices and corruption and they had heard about the protest by word of mouth or in the newspaper or on local TV. There is this real community feel where protesters were helping each other. There were families there. There were even some children and women. When people got tear- gassed, others tried to help them out. A number of people were injured by riot police and there were other strangers carrying them away from the fray. Some of the activists especially opposition politicians have been complaining that they're disappointed with the way the U. S. Administration has reacted to this protest. They say that they're not getting much support. The U. S. counts on the Mubarak regime to be stable, to be a partner and war on terror to be a partner as a mediator in the way of peace and to provide access to the Suez Canal and air space if needed in the Middle East. So, there, Egypt is an incredibly important country in this region and the U. S. cannot-- can simply not afford to see crumble into chaos at this point. -[ Foreign Language ] >> What comes next is a very tricky question. If you see it right now, there is no leader. Tunisia didn't have a leader and that uprising succeeded in overthrowing their authoritarian ruler. We might see a brutal police state known for its repression succeed in putting down this mass of protest, or we could see thousands more take to the street so we could see this protest continue for days, for weeks, and build momentum, attracting more young people, attract the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the country's largest opposition group and so far has not been one of the big participants in the protest. 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