The Egyptians want to overthrow the Mubarak regime. Initially fueled primarily young, educated people, the protests - but now they have joined protesters from all backgrounds. They demand that which was previously only reserved for the elite: prosperity and freedom. The poster is in the middle of Cairo.
Five boys and girls smile for the camera, it is a campaign by the government, which promises to be "for the future of your children" should be used. A week ago it would have been one of those pictures that you drove by randomly wanders with the look and immediately forget. But this poster is just outside the headquarters of the Egyptian ruling party.
Of which only a charred, black facade remains. Because the children have rebelled. Their anger has driven the young man on the street, they have defied the police force, is opposed to the water cannons. At the end of the "Friday of Wrath" last week burned the building of the National Democratic Party, which ruled for decades.
The government of President Hosni Mubarak has not just sheared the future of the youth, but above all to himself for young Egyptians to the University is often followed by unemployment. Those who study and speaks perfect German can hope than a call center job. Who has no money for bribes or does not know the right people is often lagging.
As the OECD in November warned that urgent action against corruption, which again remained unheard. The inflation rate last year at eleven percent. Although Mubarak has initiated economic reforms. But who used mainly the economic elite of the country, which still won more influence in exchange for the Mubarak family-based.
The economy has grown in recent years even, but the regime has not succeeded, "sufficient to create employment for the rapidly growing population," said Muriel Asseburg, Head of Research Group Middle East and Africa at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Berlin. In Egypt, a generation was born with no prospects - and with much anger.
To the economic hardship was the political repression. In the parliamentary elections in 2010 Mubarak has recently shown what he thinks of free elections: nothing. His ruling party won more than 83 percent and secured the absolute power in parliament. Observers criticized the massive electoral fraud.
Even then burned tires and several polling stations, but was a mass movement does not exist. "Many Egyptians had given up the hope for change through the political process," says expert Asseburg. But the jasmine revolution mobilized the Egyptians. "First Tunisia, then Egypt," people chanted in the streets.
Using Blogs, Facebook and Twitter, they organized themselves, it was mainly the younger ones, 20 - to 30-year-old, better educated, living in large cities such as Cairo and Alexandria. Via the Internet, they released photos and news of their protests, and subjected to more and more people.
The television station al-Jazeera reported extensively on the demonstrations. The German Christina Schmitt, who currently makes a language course in Cairo and is enrolled as an auditor at the Cairo University, has observed how these reports are mobilized more and more students. A student said to her: "Well it's cool to be against the government and to express his opinion." In Tunisia, as in Egypt, people have discovered how powerful they are, says El-Hamadi Aouni, a political scientist at the Free University of Berlin.
"The longer the protests, the more courageous they were." Although electronic media in Egypt are far less common than in Tunisia, where 25 percent of families have a computer. This is one of the explanations for why the demonstrations in the country is not so much spread. But the insurgency has affected an increasing number of layers.
The rallies are older women with head scarves, young women with sunglasses, white-haired men and younger with the hair gel. There are also those there who suffer most from poverty, the inhabitants of slums in Cairo alone eleven million people. They all come together now, the will to be more prosperous and more freedom.
Difficult to say goodbye to Mubarak It is a colorful movement. The protests are not controlled by traditional opposition groups. A clear figure, leading the demonstrations, there is not. This too is similar in Tunisia. But unlike in Tunisia live in Egypt more than 80 million people. Egypt is a giant in the region - which is why close allies like the U.S.
is slow to respond to the unrest. With the help of Washington's Mubarak has been upgraded his army, went every year 1.3 billion U.S. dollars in military aid. Accordingly, the difficulty the U.S. government did so openly put pressure on Mubarak. Meanwhile, Barack Obama called for a peaceful "transition to democracy" on.
His spokesman, pushed behind the wooden declaration that they wanted to support "an orderly transition to a government," which addresses the aspirations of the Egyptian people. " The neighboring country Israel trembles before a possible fall Mubarak - who is the favorite Arab politicians of the state because it guarantees the security of Israel.
The fear of a takeover by the Islamists is great. "We had and still have great respect for President Mubarak," President Shimon Peres said on Monday in his first public statement on the unrest in Egypt. A fatal strategy, Hamadi El-Aouni says of the Free University of Berlin. "People want to decide their own fate.
The more powers to interfere from the outside, the more radical they become."
Five boys and girls smile for the camera, it is a campaign by the government, which promises to be "for the future of your children" should be used. A week ago it would have been one of those pictures that you drove by randomly wanders with the look and immediately forget. But this poster is just outside the headquarters of the Egyptian ruling party.
Of which only a charred, black facade remains. Because the children have rebelled. Their anger has driven the young man on the street, they have defied the police force, is opposed to the water cannons. At the end of the "Friday of Wrath" last week burned the building of the National Democratic Party, which ruled for decades.
The government of President Hosni Mubarak has not just sheared the future of the youth, but above all to himself for young Egyptians to the University is often followed by unemployment. Those who study and speaks perfect German can hope than a call center job. Who has no money for bribes or does not know the right people is often lagging.
As the OECD in November warned that urgent action against corruption, which again remained unheard. The inflation rate last year at eleven percent. Although Mubarak has initiated economic reforms. But who used mainly the economic elite of the country, which still won more influence in exchange for the Mubarak family-based.
The economy has grown in recent years even, but the regime has not succeeded, "sufficient to create employment for the rapidly growing population," said Muriel Asseburg, Head of Research Group Middle East and Africa at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Berlin. In Egypt, a generation was born with no prospects - and with much anger.
To the economic hardship was the political repression. In the parliamentary elections in 2010 Mubarak has recently shown what he thinks of free elections: nothing. His ruling party won more than 83 percent and secured the absolute power in parliament. Observers criticized the massive electoral fraud.
Even then burned tires and several polling stations, but was a mass movement does not exist. "Many Egyptians had given up the hope for change through the political process," says expert Asseburg. But the jasmine revolution mobilized the Egyptians. "First Tunisia, then Egypt," people chanted in the streets.
Using Blogs, Facebook and Twitter, they organized themselves, it was mainly the younger ones, 20 - to 30-year-old, better educated, living in large cities such as Cairo and Alexandria. Via the Internet, they released photos and news of their protests, and subjected to more and more people.
The television station al-Jazeera reported extensively on the demonstrations. The German Christina Schmitt, who currently makes a language course in Cairo and is enrolled as an auditor at the Cairo University, has observed how these reports are mobilized more and more students. A student said to her: "Well it's cool to be against the government and to express his opinion." In Tunisia, as in Egypt, people have discovered how powerful they are, says El-Hamadi Aouni, a political scientist at the Free University of Berlin.
"The longer the protests, the more courageous they were." Although electronic media in Egypt are far less common than in Tunisia, where 25 percent of families have a computer. This is one of the explanations for why the demonstrations in the country is not so much spread. But the insurgency has affected an increasing number of layers.
The rallies are older women with head scarves, young women with sunglasses, white-haired men and younger with the hair gel. There are also those there who suffer most from poverty, the inhabitants of slums in Cairo alone eleven million people. They all come together now, the will to be more prosperous and more freedom.
Difficult to say goodbye to Mubarak It is a colorful movement. The protests are not controlled by traditional opposition groups. A clear figure, leading the demonstrations, there is not. This too is similar in Tunisia. But unlike in Tunisia live in Egypt more than 80 million people. Egypt is a giant in the region - which is why close allies like the U.S.
is slow to respond to the unrest. With the help of Washington's Mubarak has been upgraded his army, went every year 1.3 billion U.S. dollars in military aid. Accordingly, the difficulty the U.S. government did so openly put pressure on Mubarak. Meanwhile, Barack Obama called for a peaceful "transition to democracy" on.
His spokesman, pushed behind the wooden declaration that they wanted to support "an orderly transition to a government," which addresses the aspirations of the Egyptian people. " The neighboring country Israel trembles before a possible fall Mubarak - who is the favorite Arab politicians of the state because it guarantees the security of Israel.
The fear of a takeover by the Islamists is great. "We had and still have great respect for President Mubarak," President Shimon Peres said on Monday in his first public statement on the unrest in Egypt. A fatal strategy, Hamadi El-Aouni says of the Free University of Berlin. "People want to decide their own fate.
The more powers to interfere from the outside, the more radical they become."
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