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Misconceptions about the Egyptian crisis
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February 1, 2011, the day when a million demonstrators were expected to come out on Tahrir Square in Cairo, the Washington Post makes a call for a democratic transition in Egypt. The Post says unfortunately the debate has been affected by considerable misinformation and mistaken ideas. It singles out three for correction. The protestors have no platform, that the radical Islamists are likely to assume power, and that the US has little power to influence the change. The April 6 Movement is a principal organizer of the protests and is run by young people. The party of Mohamed El-Baradei and the Muslim Brotherhood have joined together with the young protestors movement to have a common platform. And in a country where an estimated two thirds of the population is under 30 years, the older leaders in the El-Baradei party and the Muslim Brotherhood are deferring to the younger leaders. The movement is middle class, centrist, and its main grievance is the yearning for liberty. Eliott Abrams, the deputy national security advisor to former President George W. Bush, and Mr Bush on C-SPAN, have come out in favor of the Egyptian people's struggle for freedom. See Abrams column in the Post. The Muslim Brotherhood is unlikely to win anything more than a minority of seats in any elections, because the overwhelming influence in the protests is secular, middle class, and seeks the democratization and modernization of Egypt. For the American people this is an opportunity to support the aspirations to freedom and a modernized economy for the Egyptian people.
American experts, journalists and newspaper columnists on the Egypt of Mubarak and the democracy movement
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In June 2005 Secretary of State Rice met with opposition figures in a shabby conference room in Cairo during the three decade long rule of Mubarak in Egypt. Gerson describes ths meeting and the efforts during this period to bring about a democratic transition in Egypt. He says foreign policy elites did not put their faith in American ideals when dealing with developing countries.
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Friedman says the protests are about Egypt above all else, and its about Egypt and Egyptians desire for a freedom, democracy, better education, better economic opportunities and better lives. He describes the need in other parts of the Arab world to transcend sectarian, tribal and other loyalties, to establish moderation and build the institutions for citizenship and democratic government.
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Assurances to the West from Egypt's religious establishment about Egypt's path to democracy
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Criticism of the Obama administration's hesitant response to the protests in Egypt
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The change in thinking of the Islamists and other Arab leaders in governmment to adopt democratic ideas and seek foreign investment to modernize their economies, after the failure of the first generation of Arab leaders to deliver freedom and economic development. Shadid covers Ferjani in Tunis in one of his last reports from the region for the New York Times.
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The U.S. President visited Cairo and made a speech to students at the university there. The hopes he created there among young people have been quashed by the policies of the Obama administration. These policies have failed to vigorously support long delayed democratic processes in Egypt, and create a credibility gap for America in the Middle East.
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The Turkish role in the economic development of Egypt after years of underinvestment in the economy. Turkey's wider role in the development of political institutions for democracy in the Middle East.
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