Almost a year after the revolutionary movements that swept away Mubarak’s regime, Egypt’s future still seems uncertain. The citizens of the most populous and geo-strategically sensitive country in the region are obstinately and very bravely facing the sudden reversal of a still violently militarised state apparatus. The electoral process will take a long time. Who are the political, institutional and civilian players in this new Egypt and what are they doing? Resetdoc posed these questions to Francesco Aloisi de Larderel, former Italian Ambassador to Cairo and to Margot Badran, senior fellow at Georgetown University.