The regime’s policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of Muslims and Coptic Christians had lived together peacefully in the past....

The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.

Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write,...