now to hisham fahmy who will talk about the business perspective. >> good afternoon.his is a new egypt and getting an egyptian to talk five minutes is a challenge. i was asked to talk about business associations and what they're doing well and how they should be looking at egypt in long run. a represent -- since 1982 we have 1800 members and we serve our members in the business community. on the short-term obviously as an association personalization is for the dominant way forward in egypt or anywhere but there are so many challenges and the moment in egypt on the economic front and the business front the there are common issues to all of them and we have identified that we need to support our members in different sectors. we have been talking about civil society but there are issues at the present time in egypt that have a tremendous effect on whether this revolution succeeds or not. it is critical that we do everything that makes it succeed. i want to give some examples of what they're doing. there was a cute problem in the financial sector. banks were closed for a

. >> thank you, hisham fahmy. next is awais sufi from his perspective as an ngo in the u.s. will talk about what the external community maybe looking for and trying to do in the coming months and years. >> thank you very much, john. and thank you to the brookings institution for hosting us today. the international youth foundation is a probably ngo beside. we work in several countries around the world. we have been working in egypt alongside a whole host of ngos, local companies, international companies, and of course to the extent possible, government. as we have watched what has unfolded in egypt over the last few months we have been like everyone else, very excited about the possibilities. we have a seen a youth-led revolution. our own approach is ans asset-based approach to use development. how can you use youth assets to confront challenges? obviously the youth of egypt has been instrumental, you know, in changing the game in egypt. now i think the real key can be how can international organizations such as ourselves and many others represented here in washington global