It comes with a standard set of customisation options, including the power to change its size on screen. Users can also create their own custom gizmos by sculpting 3D controls in ZBrush’s native ZTL format. Who schedules a revolution? Well, Egyptians do, joked many on 24 January last year, a day before the historical revolt was set in motion.įor weeks, youth movements had been distributed flyers in the streets and sent invitations on social networking sites, urging Egyptians to head to the streets on 25 January to protest against the 30-year-old Mubarak regime.For more left-field designs, like the one above, tooltips can be used to explain the controls’ functionality. Inspired by the Jasmine Revolution in neighbouring Tunisia, the revolutionaries vowed to hold a similar revolution in Egypt and oust Mubarak and his men and purge people from his corruption. Given the magnitude of the Egyptian revolution and its ripple effect not only in Egypt, but the region and even the world, one would think that the pre-revolution weeks were rife with talk about the upcoming uprising. However, a look into newspapers of the day before the revolution shows that the bulk of Egyptian society was blissfully unaware of what was about to happen. One day before the revolution, Mubarak had begun early celebrations of Egypt’s 59th National Police Day, which was set for 25 January. The ousted president honoured the police forces, visited the Mubarak Security Academy, laid flowers on the graves of the police martyrs and congratulated them for a job well done. It seems that neither the president nor the celebrating police forces were aware that a revolution was in the works to topple them both, him for his oppressive rule and them for their brutality which led to the torture of thousands of Egyptians in police stations across the country. In his last speech before the revolution, Mubarak addressed the police forces to mark National Police Day. In the speech, which was heavily covered in Al-Ahram, Masry El-Youm and El-Wafd newspapers, Mubarak focused much of the address on the recent bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria, which took place on the New Year’s Eve in 2011, and its impact on national unity in Egypt. "Police day comes this year at a time when Egypt experienced a new attack from terrorist forces which targeted the unity of Muslims and Christians," Mubarak begun his speech. Mubarak talked about how Egypt has been fighting terrorism for decades and the latest terror attacks were a warning signal that Egypt will always be a target for terrorists. The former leader then highlighted the role the police forces in Egypt played in combating terrorism. "We remember with pride the heroism of its policemen." "We will always remember the huge efforts made by police forces to fight for the security of Egypt and its people," Mubarak said. Mubarak then launched an attack on reports that some Egyptians were asking foreign countries to step in and protect the country’s Christian population after the church bombing. The ousted president said that Egypt would not accept any "foreign pressure." "I say to those who request that friendly nations protect Egypt’s Copts.I say to them.that the age of foreign protection and custodianship is over.We do not accept any interference in Egyptian matters." Indeed, Masry El-Youm released statements by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abu El-Gheit in which he condemned the US Congress for discussing the attacks on Copts in Egypt. The Egyptian media was also rife with stories about the Two Saints Church bombing, with reports that the Egyptian government had identified the culprits. The Ahram Arabic website reported that the guilty party was 26-year-old Ahmed Lotfy Ibrahim, who was supported by “the Palestinian Islam Army” organisation in Gaza. Most newspapers, including liberal El-Wafd and Masry El-Youm contained long features about this organisation.
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