The Egyptian Crucible
The triad of forces driving Egypt since the Arab Spring began – the military, the mosque, and the masses in Tahrir Square – has broken. If the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s newly elected president, is to revitalize an endangered revolution, he must reach out to the liberal forces that did not back him at the polls.
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MADRID – As Egyptians tensely awaited the results of their country’s presidential elections, a thread of pessimism ran through the discourse of the young people and secular liberals who had brought down Hosni Mubarak in January 2011. The “anything is possible” sensation of the Tahrir Square rebellion had faded, and now two candidates whom the protesters deeply opposed, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, and Ahmed Shafiq, a factotum of the old regime (and of the current military government), prepared to face off in the second round.