Title of the [NYT article](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html?hp) posted 30 minutes ago or so. Government affairs have passed under the responsibility of a council of military leaders. Now the hard work continues towards constitutional reform and a new assembly. Extraordinary. The strong Egyptian nationalism (not necessarily congruent with the notion of an Islamic Umma) and the fact that the mobilisation of the people was not started by the Muslim Brotherhood and was sustained by all sorts of groups in the society break new ground. Civil society can begin to exist (hope to exist) in the space opened by the demonstrators between religious mediation (the single one of Islam), and a repressive regime mostly directed against that religious danger.