This is an example of how the failure of the government leads to the people immigrating to other country and hesitating to go back. For instance, hundreds of Egyptians come to the United States on student visas, planning to earn graduate degrees and look for a job in academia. For years, many of them scrambled to find jobs anywhere in the world outside Egypt. They worried that working as a professor there would not provide enough money to support a family. And more worrisome, they said, was the prospect of limited academic freedom. Out of 300,000 Egyptians in the US currently, there are many of those who have become wealthy in the US. They want to go back and contribute to their country, but they are reluctant to give up all freedom the US offers.
There are still some people who believe in the better future of Egypt with their support. The article gives an example of Rania Behiri, 31, who left Egypt with her family when she a toddler. “People don’t have trust, they don’t have faith and they have been just so oppressed and messed up by the laws that they need to learn how to think for themselves,” Ms. Behiri said. “It’s going to be invaluable. This whole thing showed that people truly can make a difference — so now I feel like, of course, I want to be a part of it.”
Ms. Behiri is one of countless Egyptian immigrants speaking in such grand terms these days, driven by what they saw happen to their birthplace. Many in the Egyptian diaspora here say they hope to educate people back home before elections and will press for the right to vote as well. After years of oppression, Ms. Berhiri said, many Egyptians might be easily deceived by unscrupulous or power-hungry politicians. Friends her age, for example, could be so focused on improving Egypt’s economy that they are too willing to overlook religious demands by public officials.
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