The first year after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 was messy but hopeful. After 30 years of dictatorship, elections brought to power the Muslim Brotherhood, who-al-though they had suffered decades of persecution-promised to be inclusive and tolerant. But since the Brothers' Muhammad Morsi became president at the end of June last year, politics has become steadily nastier. Egyptian society is ever more polarised. Protests frequently turn violent. The security forces oscillate between support for the Islamists and deep-seated
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