CAIRO, July 25 (UPI) -- As protesters camped out again in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egyptians had mixed views on the state of their revolution after six months.
"I am optimistic about the future. We can't go back," Lillian Wagdy, a photographer who took part in the protests that forced President Hosni Mubarak out Feb. 11, said in a CNN report Monday. "The wall of fear has fallen and the people will now demand their rights and stay on the streets."
"The psychology of the citizen has changed," said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. "Millions of voiceless people have regained their voices. ... It's changed the relationship between sons and fathers and fathers and daughters."
The generals who replaced Mubarak are still in power pending elections.
"For me to leave Tahrir, the ruling generals need to listen to our demands and take action to ensure them," said Mustafa Sadek, a high school student in the square last week. "We also want a clear schedule, a path to elections and reform. We want a plan that lays out the future."
Human rights lawyer Rajia Omran said: "It will take five to 10 years to evaluate the revolution. … Any evaluation now is premature."
