Egyptians celebrating Morsi's election over the summer. (Flickr Creative Commons)

A day after Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi declared a state of emergency and a curfew in three major cities, protests continued to erupt in Port Said, a city near the Suez Canal, and in Cairo, according to The New York Times.

In Port Said, protesters claimed they no longer recognize Morsi's authority, angry over what they say is Morsi's abandonment of the ideals used in the revolution that overthrew longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak in what was known as the Arab Spring. 

The new riots represent citizen outrage at Morsi's declaration of emergency, a set of restrictions they say reckons back to Mubarak's reign.  The state of emergency suspends standard judiciary processes and voids most civil rights, according to the Times.

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