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Unemployment and poverty alone did not lead to the overthrow of Egypt's government. It was the perceived difference between what should be and what was that created the driving force for the country's historic uprising.

Majorities of Egyptians have repeatedly said that continued protests such as those in Egypt's Tahrir Square are a bad thing for the country. At the same time, Egyptians were growing less optimistic about their lives in post-Mubarak Egypt before ...

Higher stress and worry levels worldwide pushed Gallup's Negative Experience Index to a record high in 2017.

The vast majority of Egyptians (86%) plan to vote in the country's first presidential election now set for late May and believe it will be fair and honest (88%), but 55% have not yet decided whom they will vote for.

Egyptians' confidence in their political system surged after the revolution, as did their enthusiasm for participating in it, though many express concern about a lack of jobs and an increase in crime.

Ahead of Egypt's presidential election, support for several Islamist parties is down significantly. Egyptians are also much less likely to want the Muslim Brotherhood to hold a strong and influential position in parliament.

Americans are about evenly divided, 47% to 44%, in their views of whether the events in Egypt will result in democracy taking hold in other Middle Eastern countries. There is also no consensus as to whether the situation in Egypt will help ...

Americans' opinions of Egypt have become sharply more negative, with an 18-point drop in the country's favorable ratings -- from 58% in 2010 to 40% this year. This marks the first time since the initial measurement in 1991 that more Americans ...

There are many reasons for what is happening in Egypt and the Middle East, and freedom does have a special call. However, the underlying economic conditions appear to be getting far too little attention in the media. In part, this may be due to ...

Less than half of Americans (45%) say what happens in Egypt is vitally important to the U.S., putting Egypt 9th out of 12 countries Gallup asked Americans to rate on this dimension. China ranks first by a wide margin, with 7 in 10 Americans ...