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Despite the tragic events unfolding in Libya, it appears that the Arab world is on its way to shedding the exceptionalism that has dogged its political regimes for much of the last half century. Peoples’ uprisings and revolutions and intellectuals’ respectful calls for political openings are sweeping across a large swath of strategic lands and pointing toward new, yet unclear, geopolitical orientations in the future Middle East. But despite the impact each and every battle for change from autocracy will have on this future, it is Egypt’s that will define how the Middle East and the Arab world will conduct its geopolitical business in the years to come.