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I spent a couple of hours last night in mild pain watching “The Square,” a documentary tracing the main turning points of the Egyptian revolution since early 2011.  The film is a good one, but the ground rules prohibited reviewing it.  Opens in January I think.  It’s the revolution I have doubts about.

Knowledgeable colleagues at the event disagreed with me.  Yes, they said, mistakes have been made, but the Egyptians are learning and things will come out all right, because there are good people prepared to make good things happen.

Of course.  Ahmed Maher, who spoke at the Middle East Institute conference last week, is clearly one of them.  The producer, director and human rights lawyer who answered questions at the showing last night certainly count among them.  So too do the nuanced and devoted revolutionaries they chose to focus on in the film. Read more