There is no survey to prove it, and those who feel a little sympathy for former President tend to say under their breath, as Salma Sowellem, as she recently visited an art show: "Shh, I don't want my boyfriend to hear, he will get mad." But Mubarak, it is an old man. He is sick. His sons are in jail. That's enough. ?
But the feeling is entirely part of the complex mix of emotions that have submerged this nation while it to reconcile with the past and move in the future, to balance calls for vengeance against the requirements of justice. Egyptians are still uncertain if they should continue the reconciliation of the South-style African, Eastern European style hunt for collaborators or just try to forget everything and press ENTER.
They know that they must start at the top.
"It was like God, and we still continue saying that it is in the power of Egypt, even though he was arrested, said Hussein Hanafi, 44, as he stood, with a group of friends, close to downtown one day discuss the situation." I have seen no one other than him for 30 years. I would just forget him day to the next. ?
And then summarizing a sentiment repeated during three days of interviews here he said: "I am sorry for him." "" "But he is not innocent."
Mr. Mubarak was President for 30 years, and at this time he undertook in the Alchemy of a typical autocrat, transform his mortal identity of divinity-or in the Egyptian context, Pharaoh. Its image is not only affected everywhere, but to destroy or deface it is a crime.
Then he disappeared, and even some who applauded his fall found disoriented by the loss of the more familiar feature of their national landscape.
"Nobody is satisfied with what he has done, said Mona Yousef, as she left his dentist's Office near the Centre of the city on Sunday." "" But we grew up with him there. It was my life. "It is difficult to just".
An artist, Ali Ali, decided to challenge and debate on Mr. Mubarak, hoping that would lead to the "closure." Mr. Mubarak three decades in power, screen images from photographs well known former President, sunk in tones mastered next to images of pop culture as Darth Vader and the dot-breathing creature in the video game Pac - Man is "Thirty Hosnis,".
"After all is the most emblematic image of our generation", the artist said in a leaflet distributed at its opening in the Baboon gallery show articulate. "At a time where the images of Hosni Mubarak are made everywhere in the country it there has never been better time to implement."
But instead of closing it provoked - or, perhaps, revealed - was the confusion which Egyptians now wrestle with.
"I'm upset." "they should not put photos of Mubarak," said Ahmed Taha, 24, at first uncertain what to make of the show. "When I look at him, I remember humiliation, I remember my unemployment, I remember inflation, I remember the corruption, I remember bad reputation of the country abroad. It reminds me of all that is wrong in this country. ?
All this, Mr. Taha does not want to see that Mr. Mubarak put in judgment. "I just want to forget," he said.
But Mena Hashem, 25, a banker in the show, disagreed.
"It is a good thing that Mubarak is considered," she said. "But then, exactly how it should attempt to of?". By the same corrupt people who protect him? ?
Mr. Mubarak to 82 years, 83 years. It was appeared to be relatively healthy strong right until the Prosecutor announced that he would be questioned on corruption and its role in the death of more than 800 people were killed in the protests that he displaced. Then he felt chest pain. He was taken to a military hospital, where he is detained under questioning. His fall accelerated as public pressure forced the military leaders of the Egypt to take action against him.
"The tragedy was not necessarily as of Sadat assassination or Nasser dropping dead, said Salama Ahmed Salama, head of the editorial in the independent newspaper Sharouk." The tragedy for Mubarak, was how he fell in the height and the pinnacle of power in a few hours or days. Who would have thought that such a powerful man would have to say goodbye just like that? ?
Mr. Mubarak is now grey newspapers, reported Egyptian, no longer take his jet black hair dye. And he told prosecutors that they can do something for him, but to release his son, Gamal and Alaa, who are in prison, while being the subject of an investigation for corruption.
But most Egyptians are delighted to see widely despised son in prison, while several shame to the idea of their former leader behind bars.
His very humble public satisfied fears that he was behind the scenes orchestrating plans for a counter-revolution. But he also raised questions about where to go next and how to go. Many people have called for his execution - particularly if it is ordered of the security forces to fire on demonstrators - while many more have said he should be just forgotten and left alone.
"The whole country is Hosni Mubarak, said Adel el Sayed as he was on a corner of the sidewalk with four friends talk about current events on Sunday." This is why it is difficult to convince Egyptian Hosni Mubarak out. ?
For the moment, it seems that Mr. Mubarak headed towards a sort of accounting, probably a trial, assuming that his health remains valid. While this is not a certainty, it could itself provide the answer to how to proceed. A fair public trial could meet calls for vengeance and justice.
"The trial of Mubarak will be a turning point in the history of the Egypt and the history of the region," said Alaa Al Aswany, the author success and social commentator. "It is a the party civilized revolution and the kind of justice Mubarak is not the Egyptian people.".
Mona El-Naggar contributed reporting.
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