"Only half of the revolution has happened," he says.
One year and half after the revolution, the country was still in a chaos, they had bigger problems than to control the borders.
Instead, Egypt finds itself a year and a half after the revolution with a security apparatus essentially unchanged from the one that menaced under Mubarak.
Many of the tags from the first year and a half after the revolution saying, "Down with military rule" have been replaced with "Down with the Guide's rule," a reference to Mohammed Badie, the "Supreme Guide" of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The year-and-a-half since the revolution has not been kind to Egyptian soccer.
NEARLY a year-and-a-half after the revolution that shook the Arab world, Egypt is poised to take another stride on the bumpy road to democracy.
In the two and a half years since the revolution that ousted Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood has won every election: parliamentary polls at the end of 2011, a Presidential vote last June, and a referendum, in December, on a constitution drafted by Brotherhood members and their allies.
More than two and a half years after the revolution, Egypt has not made progress toward transformative change.
Approximately two and a half years after the revolution in Egypt, what is happening today has led me to question the past, present and the future of the Arab Spring.
It's been two and half years since the revolution (and five years since a measure to increase the minimum wage was widely adopted), and conditions for workers haven't improved much at all.
