Maikel Nabil: PETE MULLER

Egypt Dept: AS PEOPLE watch to see what sort of country Egypt will become after this week's elections, they should keep an eye on a shy-mannered but ruthlessly determined young man called Maikel Nabil. His views, boldly disseminated across cyber-space, are unlikely to win agreement from more than a handful of his compatriots. He is a self-declared atheist, a pacifist, a supporter of better relations with Israel and holds liberal opinions on social issues, according to Winnipeg Free Press. United Kingdom edition PETE MULLER / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES Youth activists write on a wall in Tahrir Square, Cairo, earlier this week. But the fate of people like Nabil and his kind is a good bellwether for the atmosphere in the Middle East. He spent much of last year in prison, and some of that time on hunger strike, because he was deemed to have insulted the army. Whether he remains free to proclaim his in Egyptian terms, idiosyncratic ideas will say a lot about the country's new order. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.