12/06/28 13:58:51.59
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In just under a year and a half of tumultuous politics, the country’s most powerful Islamist organization
has pulled off a once unthinkable feat, propelling itself from the battered niche of a banned opposition
group to the seat of power in the Arab world’s largest country. Thousands of Brotherhood supporters
poured into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday in anticipation of the announcement ? many promising a
large-scale protest in the case of a Shafik win. But when the announcement came in the Brotherhood’s
favor, the crowd erupted in a tidal wave of cheers and fireworks, tears and hugs.
すみませんが、上の2行目の battered niche とは具体的にどのような意味なのでしょう？