guardian: A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote, May 23, 2012. Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. This election is the first free presidential race since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.Photograph: SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters Jack Shenker writes in from Cairo: Two misapprehensions underpin much of the discussion about the revolution. The first is that the metric of revolutionary success lies solely in the formal arena of institutional politics, and the development of democratic mechanisms within it. The second is that Tahrir, along with the ludicrously titled “Facebook youth” who populated the square in January and February last year, is the only alternative space in which pressure on the formal arena is thrashed out.
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A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote, May 23, 2012. Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. This election is the first free presidential race since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.Photograph: SUHAIB SALEM/Reuters
Jack Shenker writes in from Cairo:
Two misapprehensions underpin much of the discussion about the revolution. The first is that the metric of revolutionary success lies solely in the formal arena of institutional politics, and the development of democratic mechanisms within it. The second is that Tahrir, along with the ludicrously titled “Facebook youth” who populated the square in January and February last year, is the only alternative space in which pressure on the formal arena is thrashed out.

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Palestinian children take part in a rally in front of Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, April 17, 2012. 1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails began a hunger strike Tuesday, Reuters reports. Israel’s prisons authority said in a written statement that a further 2,300 Palestinian prisoners said they would reject their daily meal in support of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. [Credit : Suhaib Salem / Reuters]
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Palestinian children take part in a rally in front of Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, April 17, 2012. 1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails began a hunger strike Tuesday, Reuters reports. Israel’s prisons authority said in a written statement that a further 2,300 Palestinian prisoners said they would reject their daily meal in support of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.

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Relatives of 12-year-old boy Ayoub Assaleya mourn during his funeral in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip March 11, 2012. Israeli aircraft on Sunday killed three Palestinians, one of them Assaleya, medical sources in Gaza said, and militants fired rockets into Israel in a third day of cross-border attacks. [Credit : Suhaib Salem/Reuters]
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Relatives of 12-year-old boy Ayoub Assaleya mourn during his funeral in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip March 11, 2012. Israeli aircraft on Sunday killed three Palestinians, one of them Assaleya, medical sources in Gaza said, and militants fired rockets into Israel in a third day of cross-border attacks.

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Riot police look at a banner held by a protester during a demonstration condemning the killings at Port Said football stadium, Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 2. [Credit : Suhaib Salem/Reuters]
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Riot police look at a banner held by a protester during a demonstration condemning the killings at Port Said football stadium, Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 2.

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A demonstrator sits as another sleeps during a sit in to demand the army to hand power to civilians, in front of the state television building in Cairo February 1, 2012. [Credit : Suhaib Salem/Reuters]
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A demonstrator sits as another sleeps during a sit in to demand the army to hand power to civilians, in front of the state television building in Cairo February 1, 2012.

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Riot police guard the Egyptian parliament from protesters who are demanding the army hand over power to civilian rule, Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 31, 2012. [Credit : Suhaib Salem/Reuters]
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Riot police guard the Egyptian parliament from protesters who are demanding the army hand over power to civilian rule, Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 31, 2012.

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reuters: A demonstrator takes part in a protest demanding the army hand power to civilians, in front of the state television building in Cairo January 30, 2012. [REUTERS/Suhaib Salem]
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A demonstrator takes part in a protest demanding the army hand power to civilians, in front of the state television building in Cairo January 30, 2012. [REUTERS/Suhaib Salem]

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Demonstrators take part in a protest demanding the army to hand power to civilians, at Tahrir square in Cairo on Jan. 27. Large marches of protesters chanting anti-military slogans streamed from mosques around Cairo to join tens of thousands massed in central Tahrir Square in a new uprising anniversary rally Friday, with many demanding an early transfer of power by the ruling military and the trial of generals for the killing of protesters. [Credit : Suhaib Salem / Reuters]
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Demonstrators take part in a protest demanding the army to hand power to civilians, at Tahrir square in Cairo on Jan. 27. Large marches of protesters chanting anti-military slogans streamed from mosques around Cairo to join tens of thousands massed in central Tahrir Square in a new uprising anniversary rally Friday, with many demanding an early transfer of power by the ruling military and the trial of generals for the killing of protesters.

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Demonstrators take part in a protest marking the first anniversary of Egypt’s uprising at Tahrir square in Cairo January 25, 2012. [Credit : Suhaib Salem/Reuters]
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Demonstrators take part in a protest marking the first anniversary of Egypt’s uprising at Tahrir square in Cairo January 25, 2012.

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Demonstrators take part in a protest against the Egyptian military council at Tahrir square in Cairo on Jan. 20, 2012. Hundreds of Egyptians are marching toward Tahrir Square ahead of the one-year anniversary of the uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. The protesters set out from different neighborhoods in Cairo on Friday, which they have dubbed “the dream of the martyrs.” They say the families of hundreds of people killed during the uprising and the around 100 others that have been killed in clashes with the military rulers that took over from Mubarak have yet to get their “retribution.” [Credit : Suhaib Salem / Reuters]
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Demonstrators take part in a protest against the Egyptian military council at Tahrir square in Cairo on Jan. 20, 2012. Hundreds of Egyptians are marching toward Tahrir Square ahead of the one-year anniversary of the uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. The protesters set out from different neighborhoods in Cairo on Friday, which they have dubbed “the dream of the martyrs.” They say the families of hundreds of people killed during the uprising and the around 100 others that have been killed in clashes with the military rulers that took over from Mubarak have yet to get their “retribution.”

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Palestinians are reflected in two windows as they take part in a rally in Gaza City marking the U.N.’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People November 29, 2011. [Credit : Suhaib Salem/Reuters]
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Palestinians are reflected in two windows as they take part in a rally in Gaza City marking the U.N.’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People November 29, 2011.

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Tripoli, Libya. Anti-Gaddafi fighters reflected in a motorbike mirror during a graduation ceremony for newly-trained soldiers. [Credit :  Suhaib Salem / Reuters]
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Anti-Gaddafi fighters reflected in a motorbike mirror during a graduation ceremony for newly-trained soldiers.

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