Breve, ma esaustivo articolo sul sito del CSID, il Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, di cui fa parte, tra gli altri, anche Saad Eddin Ibrahim, il sociologo egiziano più noto, fuori e dentro il paese. Argomento, la successione a Hosni Mubarak, i timori americani, il ruolo futuro dell’Egitto.
In private, U.S. officials are terribly anxious about the potential for political and social instability in Egypt and the lack of mechanism for succession. They are deeply concerned that President Mubarak, a frail 81 years old and now in his 28th year in power, has repressed legitimate political dissent and turned Egypt, historically the cultural capital of the Arab world, into a weak and declining power plagued by chronic poverty, pervasive corruption and the rise of extremism.