The Wire

As Egypt adjusts to the reality of a new, democratic future, will the fervor that toppled autocratic rule in Tunisia and then Egypt spread to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa? As people celebrated the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s reign on the streets of Cairo, in the streets of they Algerian capital, there were reports that between 1,500 to 10,000 people came out to protest against their leader President Bouteflika. But will Algeria follow Egypt?