Lebanon’s Egyptians anxiously eye upheaval back home
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BEIRUT — Egyptians in Lebanon are anxiously watching developments in their strife-torn homeland, fearing that their country is sliding into an unending cycle of chaos and political turmoil.
“All I can think, watching the protests, is that we are going to be the next Lebanon or even the next Iraq,” said Shahta al-Masri, a Beirut gas station attendant who hails from Al-Mahalla Al-Kubra in the Nile Delta.
“In Lebanon, everyone is always afraid that the bombs will return,” an allusion to a country that suffered a civil war from 1975-1990 and a conflict with Israel just five years ago.
“All I can say is I am glad my family does not live in Cairo,” added the 36-year-old father of three.
Demonstrators have flooded the streets of Egypt’s capital and other cities since Jan. 25 in increasingly heated protests against President Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled unchallenged for three decades..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110204com6.html
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