and instead i wish yasmine el rashidi would address that because she is so close. there's almost day resignation when i talk to people there that to okay, we will have an islamic brotherhood life for awhile but we'll get through it and a stronger system will be merged. i don't know. we wanted so much more than bad. i would worry about that. can there really be muslim brotherhood light? i am not sure. >> this login people chanted is the people want and is due to observer of bregenz said this is the year of the arabs but in the old formula you have to look for a leader and perhaps the blessing has been there is no one leader because after 40 or 50 years we have had all kinds of leaders some with charisma and some with nine and we see what happens this is the year of the citizen so this is what is important so perhaps in the short term and now it is not a problem not to have a leader. lourdes syria. six months these committees cannot withstand the onslaught without one single leader but a structure called coordinating committees and a number of charismatic people but

[applause] >> our next speaker is yasmine el rashidi, a writer based in cairo to her great fortune justppens to be passing through new york this week and so he asked her to be a part of this panel. yasmine is a former correspondent for "the wall street journal" and has been republishing dispatches from the resolution from the new york review of books. the value for egypt has just been published. she's also a contributor to begin, a journal about culture and politics in the middle east, which i recommend you talk about if you're not familiar already. >> thank you. >> well, i feel i can pick up where that left off, given that i am living in cairo and i just arrived there. i write from there a few days ago. i mean, it is stored or true you know, everything lucette says and impart everything subs tix is. there is both a joy in the fear and we have these 18 days that we will probably never be able to relive. i feel that on some level, you know, we will be living in the shadow in the memory of those 18 days, which were exhilarating. it was i think for most egyptians to experience the revoluti