Greeting the unthinkable: Mubarak on trial

August 03, 2011 14:58

As former Egypt president Hosni Mubarak goes to trial today, its a moment the country can barely believe. The headlines of newspapers on sale in a subway station once called Mubarak, and now renamed Martyrs', captured the moment that could prove one of the most remarkable in modern Arab history: "The pharaoh in the cage of the accused.' Read the making of history in New York Times.

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