Edmund Blair has been Reuters bureau chief for Egypt and Sudan since 2009. He has reported from the Middle East for much of the past 20 years and previously spent years in the region with his family. As a teenager in 1985, he saw at first hand a military coup in Sudan and draws parallels with the events he has covered for the past 18 days in Egypt.
His story "WITNESS-Will history repeat itself in Egypt?" follows shortly.
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