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Opposition Campaign Embodying Bush Vision Now Lies in Pieces

For two decades, politics in Cairo, the Arab world’s greatest capital, had emulated the leadership of President Hosni Mubarak: occasionally tedious and rarely inspired.

But seven years ago, as a sweltering summer began to break along the Nile, Cairo’s streets were jolted by the Palestinian uprising..

A few minutes’ drive from the Bosporus , beyond the majestic skyline that evokes Istanbul’s imperial past, the roads narrow, lined by low buildings of concrete and cinder block. Corrugated iron replaces the red-tile roofs. The neighborhood is Ümraniye , a telling locale in Turkey’s struggle over power and identity.

Ümraniye is known as a gecekondu , literally "built in the nig..