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    A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote. Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. This election is the first free presidential race since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.Photograph: SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters Jack Shenker writes in from Cairo: Two misapprehensions underpin much of the discussion about the revolution. The first is that the metric of revolutionary success lies solely in the formal arena of institutional politics, and the development of democratic mechanisms within it. The second is that Tahrir, along with the ludicrously titled “Facebook youth” who populated the square in January and February last year, is the only alternative space in which pressure on the formal arena is thrashed out.

    A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote. Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. This election is the first free presidential race since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.Photograph: SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters
    Jack Shenker writes in from Cairo:
    Two misapprehensions underpin much of the discussion about the revolution. The first is that the metric of revolutionary success lies solely in the formal arena of institutional politics, and the development of democratic mechanisms within it. The second is that Tahrir, along with the ludicrously titled “Facebook youth” who populated the square in January and February last year, is the only alternative space in which pressure on the formal arena is thrashed out.

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    Clashes in Cairo Protesters stand on a concrete wall built during previous clashes Photograph: Ed Giles/Getty Images Crowds rallied outside Cairo’s interior ministry building as anger spread over the deaths of 74 people in a riot in Port Said. Demonstrators threw rocks, and police responded with teargas, with almost 400 protesters needing treatment. There were further protests in Suez where 3,000 people demonstrated outside police headquarters after news spread that one of the Port Said victims came from the city

    Clashes in Cairo

    Protesters stand on a concrete wall built during previous clashes Photograph: Ed Giles/Getty Images

    Crowds rallied outside Cairo’s interior ministry building as anger spread over the deaths of 74 people in a riot in Port Said. Demonstrators threw rocks, and police responded with teargas, with almost 400 protesters needing treatment. There were further protests in Suez where 3,000 people demonstrated outside police headquarters after news spread that one of the Port Said victims came from the city


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    Photographs: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

    One year on from Jan 25 - the date in 2011 many Egyptians will mark as the beginning of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

    Blogger Gigi Ibrahim reflects on a year of revolution:

    I never had the illusion that a revolution was an easy road for change, but in Egypt, it was inevitable. The people broke their fears and risked their lives because they could no longer sustain a life under Mubarak’s repression. Egyptians, young and old, rich and poor, Muslims and Christians, men and women, all took to the streets risking their lives in confrontations with police bullets and tear gas for one demand, “the downfall of the regime.” A year later, with 19 more repressive dictators in power, we are still demanding the downfall of the regime represented in the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF). This was never a surprise to me because I understood as early as 11 February with SCAF in power that this is only the beginning of the revolution.

    On Twitter, Egyptians are sharing what #jan25 means to them, while on Comment is Free, Ahdaf Soueif writes about the road to parliament for the revolution.

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    I was blindfolded in a makeshift prison, who knows where. I’d been there for six or seven days, and was beginning to lose hope. I thought of my wife and kids, and began to question why I’d got involved, why I’d returned to my homeland. I didn’t think I’d ever get out, but I knew this was a cause worth dying for. I thought to myself, it doesn’t matter whether you live to 30 or 70, it’s what you do with those years. Wael Ghonim, 31, created the Facebook page We Are All Khaled Said that played a key role in the Egyptian uprising in January 2011 – protesters tell us their stories here

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    Photographs of the year 2011 I took this during the 25 January revolution. It was just before sunset, so the light was good and the colours came out well. I went up to the roof of a building overlooking Tahrir square. More and more people were arriving and you could hear them chanting below. People were filled with revolutionary feeling, but it was a joyful, vibrant atmosphere; they were excited and I was happy to be part of that moment. I was completely in awe of their fervour Photograph: Mohammad Abd al-Razeq Abdullah al-Baba Abdullah al-Baba/AFP/Getty Images

    Photographs of the year 2011

    I took this during the 25 January revolution. It was just before sunset, so the light was good and the colours came out well. I went up to the roof of a building overlooking Tahrir square. More and more people were arriving and you could hear them chanting below. People were filled with revolutionary feeling, but it was a joyful, vibrant atmosphere; they were excited and I was happy to be part of that moment. I was completely in awe of their fervour Photograph: Mohammad Abd al-Razeq Abdullah al-Baba Abdullah al-Baba/AFP/Getty Images

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    Women protest in Cairo Hundreds of women took to the streets of Egypt’s capital to protest against military rule and the brutal treatment of female protesters by the security services, after fresh clashes in Tahrir Square in which at least four demonstrators were shot dead

    Women protest in Cairo

    Hundreds of women took to the streets of Egypt’s capital to protest against military rule and the brutal treatment of female protesters by the security services, after fresh clashes in Tahrir Square in which at least four demonstrators were shot dead

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