the successful revolt against the Mubarak regime more than a year ago. Many of them now feel disappointed at the course the revolution has taken. Said Sadek, a political sociologist who participated in the protests that brought down Mubarak last year, says in retrospect, Egypt's Arab Spring was "a mix o

ajor tribes in North and South Sinai. The North of Sinai is one of the poorest governorates, with a population of approximately 350,000," explained Said Sadek, a political sociologist at the American University of Cairo. Geopolitical dynamics The peninsula's geographic positioning and size is often perce