Trouble Brewing

The night before the results of Egypt’s presidential election were announced last week I had dinner with a close friend. She had voted for the leftist Khaled Ali because she admired his message about the need for all Egyptians to make sacrifices in the name of economic and political renewal. Ali had never polled beyond the single digits and when I told my friend she was wasting her vote she replied that voting one’s conscience in an election was more important than the results. “Unl...

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