It is an odd thing when a nation of 84m people lumbers towards a precise appointment with a wholly unknown destiny. But such is the case with Egypt. The fatal date is June 30th, the first anniversary of Muhammad Morsi's inauguration as Egypt's first freely elected president. The event is a planned nationwide protest, calling for Mr Morsi to go, in the manner of Egypt's dictator of 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, only 30 turbulent months ago. No one knows if the protests will succeed, nor what might happen if they do. What is sure is that they will be big and very possibly bloody. The country is polarised, the mood highly charged. Already skirmishes in provincial cities between friends and foes of Mr Morsi's party, a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood, have left a handful of dead and scores of injured.
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