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7 Min Read CAIRO (Reuters) - Ten years ago protesters surged onto Egypt’s streets, emboldened by the success of Tunisia’s Arab Spring uprising. FILE PHOTO: Anti-government protesters in Cairos Tahrir Square listen as President Hosni Mubarak speaks to the nation February 10, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo Some young activists formed the Revolution Youth Coalition to draw together the uprising’s disparate strands and give the protesters occupying Cairo’s Tahrir Square a coher...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio They demanded freedom, dignity, democracy and social justice amid battles with police and state-hired thugs, and on February 11 President Hosni Mubarak resigned. But the coalition fragmented as it faced two much more established forces: the Muslim Brotherhood that swept to power in later elections, and the military that toppled it in 2013. Egypt now faces a different landscape. Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi, who became president in 2014 after lea...