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9th Anniversary of Egypt's Revolution Marked Without Fanfare

Edward Yeranian

   CAIRO, EGYPT - The anniversary of Egypt's January 25 revolution, which
   swept veteran Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak from power in 2011, is
   being observed in a fairly low-key manner. Most Egyptians were given
   that day off and the government celebrated the role of the country's
   police in maintaining order.

   Opponents of the Egyptian government, particularly Islamists, had harsh
   words for general-turned-President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in social
   media and on TV channels originating from Qatar and Turkey -- which
   support them -- but in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and most of the
   rest of the country, there were no significant protests and most people
   stayed home after being given the day off.

   Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square -- where most of the major protests
   against former President Hosni Mubarak took place in 2011 -- remained
   eerily quiet, except for some light traffic, and police were on
   heightened alert along the major arteries leading into the city center.
   

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