How Much Do We Know About Egypt?
80 million people in the country. 17 million in Cairo. 200, 000 protesters in Tahrir Square. Only the ones who speak English appear on our TV.
When we talk about the reach of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian society - or conversely the appeal of democracy - we are talking about things about which nobody knows very much and probably nobody can know very much. One out of seven Egyptians cannot read. Half of them live on less than $2 a day. What do they think? What do they want? And it may be an equally urgent question to know: who leads, guides and controls what they think and want?
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