Buses in Egypt do not follow a fixed route, and if you want to make sure of reaching your destination, you better make agreements with the driver before departure.
After January’s 2011 Revolution, many Egyptians are wondering where the country is heading. Some of them answer, ironically, “you should have asked it before getting on”…
In October, 2011, I decided to move to Egypt. I was curious to look into the face of a “Revolution” taking place in a country so close to my own. Tahrir Square is a street theatre and, if you like it, you can watch a show anytime. I would stop and listen to the voices of whoever came across, asking them their opinions on the future of Egypt, as the year 2011 was closing on the backdrop of a winter that looked very much the same as the spring. Vagrants, youths, revolutionaries, would be prophets, taxi drivers, mothers, journalists, field doctors. Men and women. Poor and less poor. Christians and muslims. People who, from different standings and with different points of view, contribute to the development of a country that is moving, and is not going to surrender to history.
