Teaser

Here is an excerpt from our article, which will be published on Thursday and I'll provide a link when it comes out.
This excerpt is pretty juicy, and gives you a great example of the absurdities possible in Cairo.

"Refugees have seen Sudanese Embassy cars nearly every day circling the sit-in, but at 3 in the morning of 15 October, four men in an Sudan Embassy car stopped and two of them began distributing alcohol among some refugees. The leaders managed to capture the four men and hand them over to the police and they unscrewed the rear license plate which they have hidden as evidence. At the meeting that afternoon, a speaker asked the group whether he should comply with police demands and hand over the license plate. The crowd shouted ‘No’. A police standing at the perimeters listening shouted back, ‘We have the men in jail. We have sequestered the car. We need the license for evidence.’ This angry exchange with the forces that are protecting them may be the beginning of the end of the sit-in."