The Egyptian government worked intensively to make sure that something important happened in Tahrir Square today: nothing. On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 25 protests that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak, traffic snaked through the square in downtown Cairo unimpeded. The only gathering was a small cluster of pro-government Egyptians, some holding signs adorned with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s smiling face, organized to praise the police forces that were the loathed enemy of the protesters on Jan. 25, 2011. It was the first time since 2010 that a Jan. 25 passed without demonstrations disrupting the normal pace of daily life.
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