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People get stuck in traffic jams on their way home minutes before the curfew hours in Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 29, 2013,. Security has been beefed up across the country in anticipation of the protests. The Brotherhood has also called for sit-ins to protest Egypt's new interim leaders who took over after the military ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

Egyptian security forces patrol Giza's Kerdasa district, south of Cairo, Egypt , Sept. 26, 2013. The security forces are conducting an ongoing operation that began Thursday, Sept. 19, when the forces backed by armored fighting vehicles and helicopters stormed the town known to be an Islamist stronghold outside of Cairo near the Great Pyramids.

Hesham Shetta school in Al Haram st. Giza, Egypt Nov 13,2013 . The Egyptian government changed the names of some schools to the names of the police officers who were killed in different events like clashes with Muslim brotherhood and explosions. The government did that only with the police after the army coup in the 30 June which took the power from the first elected president Mohamed Morsy after the 25, Jan Revolution.

Egyptian security forces detain a man in Giza's Kerdasa district, south of Cairo, Egypt during an ongoing operation that began Thursday, Sept. 19, when the forces backed by armored fighting vehicles and helicopters stormed the town known to be an Islamist stronghold outside of Cairo near the Great Pyramids. A brutal crackdown on Islamists after a military coup that ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president is posing a dilemma for the country's intellectual elite, which championed greater freedoms during a popular revolt two years ago but now seems largely acquiescent in the wave of arrests and raids targeting the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egyptian women supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi stand inside the defendants' cage in a courtroom facing six charges after holding an early morning protest on Oct. 31 in Alexandria, Egypt. Women supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood have stepped into the front line of Islamist protests against Egypt’s military and the interim government installed after Morsi’s removal in a July 3 coup. In daily protests the past months, they have proven determined and ferocious.

Egyptian army soldiers prevent women from crossing the barrier distribution of relief assistance after their village sank with sewage water. After the army coup in the 30 June which took the power from the first elected President Mohamed Morsy , the armed forces participate in the daily life things for civilians which they didn’t have the right to intervene on it or take any decisions.

A poster showing Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is taped to an army armored vehicle on Al Nahda square on Nov,13, 2013 Giza, Egypt. The Egyptian army closed El Nahda Square by tanks since the imposition of the curfew after they clear the sit in camps in Rabaa and El Nahda.

Egyptian woman ask an army solder to leave her cross inside Tahrir Square to go home, but he said no, it's closed and you can search to find another entrance. After the Egyptian police in riot gear swept in with armored vehicles and bulldozers Wednesday to clear two sprawling encampments of supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president in Cairo , the army forces used to close streets if the hear any news about marches to Muslim brother hood and they refuse to leave people wake on the close areas.

Chocolates decorated with pictures of Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi displayed for sale in a shop in Cairo, Nov.14,2013. Bahria Galal, the owner of the shop attributed her idea to make 'Sissi chocolates” out of her love and respect to the man. After Sisi made the military coup and took power from the first elected president Mohamed Morsi , the sisi supporters used to have his photos to convince the world that it’s not a coup.

A member of the Egyptian security forces visits a residence during ongoing security operations in Giza's Kerdasa district, south of Cairo,Sept. 26, 2013,Egypt. The operation began Thursday, Sept. 19, when the forces backed by armored fighting vehicles and helicopters stormed the town known to be an Islamist stronghold outside of Cairo near the Great Pyramids. A brutal crackdown on Islamists after a military coup that ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president is posing a dilemma for the country's intellectual elite, which championed greater freedoms during a popular revolt two years ago but now seems largely acquiescent in the wave of arrests and raids targeting the Muslim Brotherhood.