Is Egypt headed for another revolution?

President Mohamed Morsi faces his biggest challenge yet as violent protests spread in the days following the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak

Protesters throw stones at riot police during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Jan. 28.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih)

Egypt has been rocked by five days of rioting that has killed at least 52 people, and the violence has only spread since the country's Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, declared a state of emergency and imposed an overnight curfew. Morsi's political opponents, still fuming over how he rammed through a constitution written by his Islamist allies, rejected his call for a national dialogue to end the demonstrations, which erupted after a court sentenced 21 people to death for involvement in a deadly soccer riot in Port Said last year. On Tuesday, the head of the country's armed forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, warned that the chaos would lead to the "collapse of the state" unless Egypt's rival political factions could agree to work together.

The turmoil began just as the country was marking the second anniversary of the uprising that eventually toppled the regime of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. Is a revolution now going to sweep aside Morsi, too?

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.