New pages in Egypt’s Facebook revolution

With their main goal accomplished — taking down Hosni Mubarak — Egyptian activists are focusing on new targets.

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Mahmoud Arfa, Ali Eid and Osama Ibrahim create a Facebook page at a cafe in Cairo. Ibrahim says he has become disillusioned with the new Egypt and the revolution and wants to shape a new movement online.

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Osama Ibrahim watches as a Facebook page is created in a cafe near Tahrir Square in Cairo. He says the joy he felt when Hosni Mubarak resigned has been replaced by bitterness, partly because the military was put in charge of the transition.

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At a late-night meeting in downtown Cairo, members of the April 6 group argue over their future, especially now that they have accomplished their goal, toppling former president Hosni Mubarak. "We have to decide who we are," one member insists. "A resistance group? Civil rights organization? Lobbying and pressure group?"

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Ahmad Refaat, 24, left, tries to calm members of the April 6 meeting during a heated discussion about the group's future.

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Kamal Samir Fargallah, 38, is one of several members of the Muslim Brotherhood using Facebook to try to launch a mini-revolution to reform the group from within. He and others are threatening to mobilize mass protests in the organization unless leaders make it more modern and moderate.

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Potential members gather for a meeting to learn about the April 6 Facebook movement in the courtyard of a dilapidated villa in Cairo. The group originally began online among youths who wanted to support workers going on strike April 6, 2008, in the Egyptian town of El-Mahalla. It now claims more than 20,000 members and roughly 200,000 followers on Facebook.

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New members of the April 6 movement cram into a room for a meeting in a villa in Cairo. The group played a central role in Egypt’s revolution.

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Osama Ibrahim talks with people in Tahrir Square in Cairo. He and others are trying to create a new movement on Facebook to take the revolution to another level. They want to revive the idea of installing a transitional presidential council that includes civilians, an idea that was popular during the revolution but has since largely been abandoned.

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In Cairo, Mahmoud Arfa, Osama Ibrahim and Ali Eid talk about their plans for a post-revolutionary Facebook movement.

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