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The military has begun a political process in which there will be elections sometime between January and April of next yearДefense Minister Abdelfattah al Sisi is not likely to accede to last minute appeals from civil/secular/alleged liberal groups for more time. Before anyone blinks it will be Eid al Adha in mid-October and then the political season will begin. In case anyone has not noticed, the clock is ticking. In the words of one friend, вЂњWe need a break. They have been riding the exhilarating peaks and depressing troughs of the uprising for thirty months. The Egyptians with whom I have spoken recently are tired. ThatвЂ™s enough for a few years, but itвЂ™s all happened-with the exception of the Sinai problem, which has been ongoing-sinceВ July 3. ItвЂ™s been a busy summer in Egypt: military intervention, a Muslim Brotherhood sit-in (for five weeks and counting) at Rabaa al Adawiya Mosque that the government is vowing to break up, the JulyВ 26 MarchВ against violence and terrorism, actual violence and terrorism in the Sinai Peninsula, revisions to the disputed December 2012 constitution, and tumult within the Zamalek football (soccer) club along with a host of economic problems that have not gone away since the military pushed Mohammed Morsi from power. These same groups do not seem to have learned much from that moment,В setting themselves up to underperformВ once again. This was of course all revolutionary navel-gazing that distracted the civil/secular/alleged liberal groups from doing the kind of political organizing that was necessary when parliamentary elections rolled around in late November and early December of 2011.

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FridayВ ofВ RetributionВ (aka 'Ministry of Interior PurificationВ FridayвЂќ or 'Honoring the MartyrsвЂ™ RightsВ Friday')Дuring that summer there were also the demands to bring Hosni Mubarak to trial and the attendant protests once he was in the dock as well as an ongoing sacralization of the uprising and its many different leaders, which made it beyond the pale to offer any kind of critical analysis of those eighteen days or its aftermath.FridayВ of Renewing the Revolution and in Memory of the Martyrs.

FridayВ of Purging the Remnants of the Mubarak Regime from Egypt.

Those who have been following Egypt will remember two years ago when activists staged a the three week-long Tahrir sit-in and there were seemingly endless вЂњFridays ofВ вЂ¦.вЂќ including: I stand by that work, but now I am beginning to believe that in at least one respect, the summer of 2013 is a lot like the summer of 2011.

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Over the last five weeks, the historical parallels have been, at times, uncanny to the Free OfficersвЂ™ crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood beginning in October 1954. In recent weeks I haveВ writtenВ a bit about how developments in Egypt are reminiscent of the 1950s.

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