Everything that has happened in Egypt has indeed happened at least once before in Egypt. That is what I realized when I lived there. All those events in the Bible? They still happen.
Egypt is after all the worlds most ancient civilization. They have been ruled by a Pharaoh for millennia, interrupted by a few invaders. The army will pick a new ruler pretty soon, just like they did when Sadat was shot. The generals own most of the things of any value there, even the bottled Safi water.
I wonder if they own the Stella brewery? When I was in the Soviet Union in 1972, the best beer available was Stella, from Egypt. Beer was about the only thing that the Egyptians had to export to the USSR in return for tanks, warplanes, missiles, etc that Moscow was shipping to Cairo.