19 Mubarak Quotes for You to Enjoy

In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

School Same Thing Assume Secondary President Others Secondary School Libya Would Never He Primary Primary School Like Learned Still Leave Came Subconsciously Cameroon Same Egypt Taught Gaddafi Paul Mubarak Thing Nigeria University

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak. Noam Chomsky

Has-Been Obama Highly Supportive Himself Been Mubarak

Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel in its occupation of Palestine, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen that kill more civilians than intended targets. Mona Eltahawy

Sentiment Out Has-Been Weapons Born Civilians More Attacks Support Occupation Israel Been Iraq Yemen Targets Dictators Than Intended Afghanistan Mubarak Wars Many Pakistan Palestine

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, like his most recent predecessors Mohamed Morsi and Hosni Mubarak, rarely mention the Sinai Peninsula other than to celebrate its liberation from Israeli occupation in 1982. Mona Eltahawy

Celebrate Other President Liberation Peninsula Rarely Mention Like Most Occupation Israeli His Than Predecessors Mubarak Recent

The Tunisian revolution left every Arab dictator in fear; Egypt's toppling of Mubarak left them terrified - even one of the U.S.' best allies in the region could fall. Mona Eltahawy

Best Fear Fall Revolution Every Arab Allies Could Terrified Left Dictator Egypt Region Them Mubarak Even

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout. Richard Engel

Police President Nile Soldiers Battles Rural Weekly Along Like Islamists Insurgency Southern Egyptian Fields Mubarak Villages Fought Thick

Eid is here! On the first day, it is a custom for all Malaysian Muslims to ask for forgiveness from our parents. We kiss their hands and wish them 'Selamat Hari Raya' or 'Eid Mubarak.' 'Maaf Zahir dan Batin' means 'to apologize in spirit and actions.' Yuna

Forgiveness Day Kiss Parents First Wish Dan Our Muslims Spirit Hands Custom Them Ask Mubarak Apologize Means Actions Here

The situation is not about Hosni Mubarak, but the reality is now about Egypt, its present, the future of its sons, all Egyptians are in the same trench, therefore, we should continue our national dialogue That have already started in the spirit of groups but not enemies. Hosni Mubarak

Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action. Ahmed Zewail

Natural Half Energy Action Other Those Administration Able Taboo He Consumption Taking Over Announced Goods His Subsidies Egyptians Bread After Energy Consumption Natural Gas Century Cuts Elected Mubarak Convince Lowered Gas Necessary

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children. Ahmed Zewail

Education Good Family Suffering Every System Secure Deteriorated Most Schooling Families Egypt Children Want Regime Mubarak Good Education University

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other. Shereen El Feki

People Become Other Once Rule Intolerance Melting Melting Pot Religions Classes Distrust Pot Years Cultures Egypt After Place Mubarak

Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and allowed the rise of a religious component to further alienate Egyptians from liberal and democratic thinking. Andre Aciman

Nationalism Sentiment Thinking Liberal Alienate Further Religious Component Rise More Allowed Powerful Democratic Built Than Egyptian Egyptians Little Mubarak

Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.' Cynthia P. Schneider

Government People Too Much Revolution Too Focused Voice Taken Policy Because Surprise His Egyptian Experts Little Mubarak Much Washington

Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed. Naguib Sawiris