Guardian: Feb 18 1221 (GMT) – Egypt: Jack Shenker is in a "baking hot" Tahrir Square in Cairo for today's "day of victory" demonstration.
He says some estimates place the crowd there at over 1 million people, and says it is certainly just as packed as it was during the 18 days of protests that preceded Hosni Mubarak's exit.
Jack listened to the speech made by Yusuf al-Qaradawi – seen as a father figure of the Muslim Brotherhood – and says it was well received:
>He was making particularly non-sectarian points. He went out of his way to praise the role Coptic Christians played in Tahrir, the way in which Christians and Muslims prayed together and protected each other. As a man who is not particularly known for his non-sectarian views, that was very welcome.
Jack said he interviewed a Coptic Christian protester after the speech who said he had been "reassured" by the speech and was not worried about the prospect of an Islamist-dominated Egyptian parliament in the future as he felt sure there would be no oppression of the Christian minority.