Later, when repression was renewed, journalists who sympathized with the protestors were criticized for getting carried away and not predicting doom. Marie was well aware of the perils in Egypt. “There appear to be three possible outcomes,” she wrote. “A transition to democracy; a new dictatorship, perhaps led by a general around whom the old guard would coalesce; or an Islamic state.” But only a cynic could have failed to be moved by the idealistic young people who thronged Tahrir Square in those early days.
