Dear SunCulture Supporters,
In January 2011, Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square and brought down a government that had held power for thirty years. The proximate cause was political repression, but the accelerant was bread. Between 2010 and 2011, global grain prices jumped 30%. This was a catastrophe for a country where the average family spent more than half its income on food. Hosni Mubarak fell not because he ran a police state (he had done that for decades), but because he could no longer feed the people who tolerated it.
