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...Traub attempts to highlight the illogical nature of the Bush regime’s foreign policy by using Egypt as an example of a repressive government that the U.S. has done little to reform, but he fails to tie it in with the rest of the book. Hosni Mubarak’s reign of almost thirty years falls under Traub’s category of a “liberal autocracy,” but while the U.S. has maintained a solid relationship with Egypt, it has not done much to foster democracy there. While this example does seem...
Egypt is one of America's most important allies - and also one of its frailest. Its president, Hosni Mubarak, will have ruled the country for 27 years by October; but instead of looking for a democratic succession, his regime has only sought to pile-drive his legacy into the future, disarming the opposition with rigged elections and run-ins with the mukhabarat, the ubiquitous internal security police. That agenda can be seen at work in the handful of parliamentary elections that took place last weekend, polls that resulted, not surprisingly, in a complete victory for Mubarak's ruling National Democratic...
...Hundreds have disappeared from the streets of Mahalla. Three times as many have been detained elsewhere around Egypt in recent months. President Hosni Mubarak turned 80 on May 4th, and his grip on the country seems increasingly desperate...
...people are afraid of the government, but the government is as afraid of the people.' ABDEL WAHAB EL-MESSERY, an organizer with Kifaya, an Egyptian opposition coalition, on the recent demonstrations and riots signaling discontent with President Hosni Mubarak's government...
...people are afraid of the government, but the government is as afraid of the people.' ABDEL WAHAB EL-MESSERY, an organizer with Kifaya, an Egyptian opposition coalition, on the recent demonstrations and riots signaling discontent with President Hosni Mubarak's government...