CAIRO: For a country with 5,000 years of history, Egypt’s fall into a deep social, economic and political malaise during the three decades of Hosni Mubarak’s rule had a particularly bitter sting to it.

Egyptians like to call their country “umm Al-dunya,” or mother of the world, and for much of their history they had reasonable claim to the title.

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