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Mohamed Fouad  In a country that has become infatuated with
political talk, the lack of sustainable political actions never
ceases to amaze me. Despite their instantaneous impact, several
movements that have surfaced on the Egyptian political scene in
the past 10 years never took off or accomplished the form of
continuity which brings about significant structural change.
Here is a look at some of these change agents and how they
fared.   “Kefaya” was the name denoting the Egyptian Movement
for Change. The movement was launched as a platform for protest
against the president then, Hosny Mubarak. It came to prominence
during the 2005 constitutional referendum and presidential
election campaigns. The movement was later plagued with
leadership changes and internal debates until it seemingly ran
out of steam. The sternest critique of Kefaya is that it was
fundamentally a protest movement, ta