Then came the Tahrir square.
Six months after an uprising led by people like him ousted Hosni Mubarak and set aside the order established in the Arab world, Ms. Mehairy joined the ranks of the class the Egypt most recent business: entrepreneurs of the revolution. Instead of leaving the Egypt as she had predicted, it is remaining to feed a start-up called SuperMama, a Web site of the Arabic language for women which has 10 local employees.
"The revolution was really my generation believe in ourselves," said Ms. Mehairy, 30. If the Egyptians can overthrow Mubarak, she wondered, they what else could be done?
It is a question sobering for the educated, well-to-do Egyptians as Ms. Mehairy - people who, unlike most of the Egyptians, have other options. She has a master's degree in interactive media of the University of Westminster in London and she hopes to move to Britain or the Canada.
The revolt now known as the spring placed Arabs Egypt on an uncertain path. After years of corruption, its rigid economy is reeling. Tourism investment plummeted. Mass unemployment - which fed the anger of the Egyptians - worsened and continue protests in Tahrir square. The nation will elect a new Government in September and it is that someone guess what will happen then.
Yet for all the uncertainties, some of those who espouse Facebook and Twitter during the heyday in Tahrir square now try to start or to continue to work on the Web and Web sites, applications they hope will produce profits and employment.
"This is an unusual revolution in that it was led by a highly educated and economically familiarize prospective group of people," said Khush Choksy, Executive Director of the Board of companies to the United States and the Egypt, which is part of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. "But for that they were really in place Tahrir, it must be a modern set of thinking, economic growth and more diversified economy."
Ms. Mehairy wants to take this opportunity, and she and Zeinab Samir, co-founder of SuperMama, were in motion.
In June, the pair applied for a place in the Boot Camp NextGen, which took place in Cairo at the end of June. The program was sponsored by the Global programme of entrepreneurship, a collaboration between the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development.
During the five-day programme, which was also sponsored by Danish and Egyptian Governments, six American contractors - including Jeff Hoffman, co-founder of Priceline.com; Ryan Allis, CEO of the iContact of website marketing. Shama Kabani, chief operating officer of Marketing Zen; and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council - 38 Egyptian entrepreneurs to refine their business plans. The last day, four winning teams were selected. Two will go to North Carolina, this fall for a period of three weeks at iContact, and two will participate in a three-month training program at the Denmark. (Ms. Mehairy and Ms. Samir will travel to the Denmark.)
Most of the entrepreneurs in the program is well educated, have jobs and from middle and upper middle class families. But they are still facing much uncertainty.
"Everyone is concerned about what happens then, said Marwan Roushdy, 20, a student at the American University in Cairo who develops an application called Inkezny to locate hospitals anywhere in the world.". The name means "rescue me" in Arabic.
Despite the political situation, Mr. Roushdy, who participated in the boot camp and has won an internship at iContact, working on the app. It attempts to block its concerns about the future and to concentrate on his business. After all, what can it do more?
"Part of being an entrepreneur is an optimist," says Steven r. Koltai, Senior Advisor for Global entrepreneurship of the Department of State, who visited the Egypt a dozen times in the last year. "Entrepreneurs are like the grass of crab who grew up in the city: they will go through the cracks in the sidewalk."
Still, these young entrepreneurs will eventually have the bureaucratic obstacles to the registration of their enterprise with the Egyptian Government, a notoriously difficult step according to Ms. Mehairy, it takes a customer or business partner insists to navigate.
"The paperwork is a nightmare," she said. "And in the past, prerevolution, you need to get your documents the corrupt."
Ms. Mehairy heard some encouraging stories, however. "My friend has completed recording his business in a day and a half," she said, "because" the person handling it was 'all powered by the values of the revolution,' as we say.
Mohamed Rafea, 30, and his cousin Ali Rafea, 23, are also optimistic. They with three other young parents co-founded Bey2ollak, an application that allows users to notify each other in dense traffic lanes. "We are fortunate that we do not need to support what is except good power, as opposed to the manufacture of goods or the opening of a store." "These types of companies need the support of the Government," explained Ali Rafea.