compiling an exhaustive representative list of the root
causes of the Egyptian January 25th revolution is a daunting and challenging
task. Egypt’s historical richness and depth, its demographic
complexities, its multiple and occasionally conflicting identities, its
geopolitical characteristics, the length of President Hosni Mubarak’s
three-decade rule, and the successive layers of policies and discursive
fragmentations through the various phases of his rule are but a few
factors at play—enough to challenge any analyst.