Kristen McTighe

Ahmad Aggour knows Egypt’s security forces well. An outspoken and defiant revolutionary that joined the first uprising from its earliest days in 2011, he was shot three separate times under military rule and bore witness to clashes under former president Mohamed Morsi’s rule.

Egyptians displayed a wide range of reactions to Monday's military statement that predicted an army intervention within 48 hours.

Egypt’s defense minister Gen. Abdel Fatteh al-Sisi dismissed elected leader and Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi Wednesday, announcing on state television that the armed forces had also dissolved parliament and suspended the country’s constitution.

In a deeply polarized country, the grassroots Tamarod — or 'Rebellion' — campaign has harnessed growing frustration and discontent to unite a fractured opposition.