How to start a revolution (part 3)

… and now the template.

When I published How to Start a Revolution on January 21, 2010 and How to Start a Revolution: Step by Step Guide on February 11, 2010, the former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, was still preparing to hand over power to his son sometime in 2012. The Egyptian people were still resigned to what had looked like an insurmountable fate that befell them.

As I watched the Former Egyptian president on trial two weeks ago, on a hospital bed, caged like a captured lion, it reminded me of that saying we often attribute to Zik…