Egypt, the most populous country in the Arab world, erupted in mass protests in January 2011, as the revolution in Tunisia seemed to inflame decades worth of smoldering grievances against the heavy-handed rule of President Hosni Mubarak. After 18 days of angry protests, Mr. Mubarak resigned and turned over all power to the military on Feb. 11, 2011, ending his 30 years of autocratic rule and bowing to a historic popular uprising that has transformed politics in Egypt and around the Arab world. The announcement, delivered during evening prayers in Cairo, set off a frenzy of celebration, with protesters shouting “Egypt is free!” The popular protest, peaceful and resilient despite numerous effort by Mr. Mubarak’s legendary security apparatus to suppress it, ultimately deposed an ally of the United States who has been instrumental in implementing American policy in the region for decades.

This article (found at The New York Times) provides a brief summary that helped make things a little bit clearer for me. The website also had further in depth information for each day that was available if more detail was required. After reading several different articles, blogs, video clips, and much more about the current situation occuring in not only Egypt but the Middle East and North Africa I thought that this one was able to simply state what has been happening in Egypt which is very simmilar to what is effecting and happening in many other places around Egypt.