Thousands of activists who helped topple Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February have returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, unhappy at the scale of change. “We have a feeling the regime is still there, somehow,” Tarek Geddawy, 25, told Anthony Shadid of The New York Times. “They sacrificed the icons of the regime, but the cornerstone is still there.” Shadid, The Times’ Beirut bureau chief, just returned from Tahrir Square and reports on the protesters’ activities there.
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