Mohammed Abdelbaset’s Reviews > Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East > Status Update

In 2010. More than 40 percent of Egyptians—and the vast majority in many rural areas—lived on less than $2.00 a day. A fifth survived on less than $1.25. At about $5.00 a pound, beef was an extravagance.

But the old authoritarian order had only hidden underground, not shattered. It returned to take revenge. A reinvigorated autocracy did its best to blot out the memory of those thirty months of freedom.
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