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There are many Egyptians who could move the nation forward into democracy. Jostled amid the crowds has been the elderly figure of Mohamed El-Baredi, the Nobel Prize-winning former head of the UN’s atomic watchdog. He is a popular figure having reached the top of international diplomacy and stood up to the Americans over Iraq. 

But waiting in the wings, yet to make their move, are the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s oldest and largest Islamist organisation. They are loathed by jihadists for their embrace of democracy, but at the same time have been highly critical of America and its support for neighbouring Israel. They remain something of an unknown quantity.