No one knows how a new or reformed Egyptian government will approach Israel or its border with Gaza. For now, the long suffering residents of Gaza are poised to endure even further hardship as this uncertainty looms.
With little to no police presence in many areas, the health system is vulnerable to ransacking and looting. Meanwhile, protestors are setting up their own medical treatment centers.
After surviving massive protests aimed at their own policies in Lebanon, the ruling coalition now led by Interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the militant Shiite party Hezbollah applauded protestors in Egypt and agreed President Mubarak should step down.
Leaders throughout the Arab world who seek to avoid the fate of Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali would be wise to take heed to the recommendations of the 2009 Arab Human Development Report.
My first experience with the Muslim Brotherhood, the large, Egypt-based radical movement known in Arabic as "al Ikhwan", was actually kind of frightening, and it led me to misunderstand what it represented.
