The roads were full of people but cars inched through the crowds with flags waving.

After more than two weeks of riots and protests in Egypt the former president Mubarak stepped down and in Alexandria, Egypt’s second largest city, citizens gathered on the corniche to celebrate.

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Photos by David Degner for the Wall Street Journal