Gamal had just voted for the secular “Revolution” list, and it was the first time he had entered a polling booth in his 40 years. “I never voted in elections before because they were all fraudulent. Before the revolution, our editor-in-chief was about to be jailed because of a report we carried on the rigged 2010 elections. I was chased by the police twice in 2003 because I was involved in the movement against the American war in Iraq.”

These are happier times, then. No police agents hover outside Shrouq’s front door. Not right now, anyway.

“The choice of [the new Prime Minister, Kamal] Ganzouri was very nasty,” Gamal says. “He intends to keep a third of the members of the old government and two of them – Hassan Younis, the Electricity Minister, and Faisal Naga, the Planning Minister – were Mubarak ministers. I think the people will return to Tahrir Square after the first voting results are announced.

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