Hossam pointed us to this article:
CAIRO, Oct 9 (IPS) – Public disaffection with the government appears to have reached an all-time high.
“There’s no denying that popular anger towards the government is rising across the board,” Nabil Abdel-Fattah, assistant director at the semi-official Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies told IPS. “The political friction has become palpable.”
A rockslide last month that killed scores of people in a Cairo shantytown became another provocation for rising anger. It was a disaster for which many held the state indirectly responsible.
More than 100 people were killed when a rockslide in eastern Cairo Sep. 6 flattened dozens of makeshift homes in the densely populated shantytown Dweiqa. The government bore no direct blame for the disaster, but the incident threw a spotlight on the state’s long-standing inability to cope with the proliferation of “informal” — and often structurally unsound — housing in and around the sprawling capital.
