Editorial: How Not to Save Egypt

It was clear from day one that President Mohamed Mursi and his government would face a daunting task at the helm of the Egyptian state. Hosni Mubarak’s civil order was mostly imposed through fear and coercion; political participation was a luxury enjoyed by only a select few. More significantly, the former president’s late economic reforms never managed to narrow the colossal gap between a rich minority and the millions of poor. Today, Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood are struggling t...

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Young and Disillusioned

Bottled water shortages, daily street battles and citizen militias: this is part of the reality in which Egyptians must conduct their daily affairs, two short years after a sweeping revolution vowed to clean out the old order and pave a path to a more promising future. Yet, power grabs, political deadlock and a president daily losing popular support and becoming what some perceive to be a poor man’s Mubarak are now the status quo, and not what the revolutionaries set out to achieve. It ...

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