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This week on Uprising:

* A momentous day in Egypt as the revolution wins and President Mubarak steps down. We’ll spend the hour on this historic day.

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On Friday February 11th, a momentous day for the people of Egypt, was the day when the 30 year reign of U.S.-backed President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after a weeks-long popular uprising. His resignation was announced by his Vice President Omar Suleiman after a confusing day of events on Thursday when instead of resigning Mubarak gave a 17 minute long speech reasserting his rule. Friday’s announcement of Mubarak’s resignation by Suleiman was only 45 seconds long. Power has been effectively been handed over to the Egyptian military. The streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities have been flooded with jubilant protesters, elated at their success. In the hours after the announcement, Egyptian Army General Sami Anan read the following statement, translated by CNN:

The news of Mubarak’s resignation came minutes into Uprising’s daily program on Friday February 11th just as we were about to discuss the events of the previous day. For our weekly digest today we bring you an edited version of that live show as events played out and the world found out that decades of dictatorship in Egypt were at an end. We begin with Al Jazeera English’ live coverage of the resignation.

GUESTS: Lisa Hajjar, professor in the sociology department at the University of California-Santa Barbara and a co-editor at the new journal Jadaliyya, where she recently wrote the piece “Omar Suleiman, the CIA’s Man in Cairo and Egypt’s Torturer-in-Chief,” and Rahul Mahajan, author of “Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond,” former commentator here on Uprising, and blogger at EmpireNotes.org, Mostafa Hussein, Doctor with Nadeem Center for Victims of Torture, live from Cairo

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.” — Victor Hugo