Égypte: l'après Moubarak

Bel article de Joe Klein dans Time. Entre espoir et inquiétude...

"It is not just the young people. I speak with Nabil Fahmy, a former Egyptian ambassador to the U.S., and Omar Mohanna, chairman of the Suez Cement Co. Both are realists. Both are worried about what sort of government will emerge, and both see the serious economic problems ahead, but both, in unguarded moments, are simply amazed by the events that have transpired. "My son is a prominent lawyer in London," Mohanna tells me. "He came home to be part of the protests. Our whole family went together. And I've never seen anything like this, the young people picking up the litter. I tried to find a piece of litter to contribute, but there was none, it was so clean. My wife is a very secular woman, but I see her in an intense conversation with a veiled woman in black. It was incredible."
And it remains incredible, as if all of educated Egypt is shell-shocked by its good fortune. The wisest of the protest leaders understand the euphoria can't last forever, especially if there's no appreciable change in the lives of the poor. "We have to get them to the point where they are eating bread instead of sifting through the trash for food," says Wael Ghonim, the Google executive whose Facebook page helped launch the protests. "'Bread, not trash' should be our next demand." The Muslim Brotherhood has built its popularity from the bottom up, providing social services for the poor. The Brothers have said they will stand for no more than 35% of the seats in the parliamentary elections. But there is need for a credible counterforce, and none has emerged yet."

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2063653,00.html