{"id":906,"date":"2006-05-24T11:32:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T11:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=906"},"modified":"2006-05-24T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T11:32:03","slug":"2006-5-24-businessweek-on-egypt-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"BusinessWeek on Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"
This BusinessWeek article<\/a> about Egypt and WEF is amusing:<\/p>\n

While economic reforms are proceeding fairly smoothly, the political convoy seems to have hit a roadblock — a point underlined by recent police beatings in central Cairo of demonstrators demanding independence for the judiciary. Mubarak, who will mark a quarter century in power in October, will eventually die or become too old to rule. But just who will succeed him is far from clear. “It’s the million dollar question, ” says Orascom Telecom’s Sawiris.<\/p>\n

The regime’s jealous guarding of power has prevented strong non-religious parties from emerging, playing to the advantage of the Islamists. Gamal Mubarak, the president’s pro-business son, hasn’t caught fire as a candidate. On a plane returning from Sharm el Sheikh to Cairo, a prominent Indian businessman worried that Amr Moussa — the charismatic and populist Arab League secretary general and former Egyptian foreign minister who’s a caustic critic of the U.S. — could seize the opportunity. But in the short term, a successor closer to the security establishment seems more likely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This BusinessWeek article<\/a> about Egypt and WEF is amusing:<\/p>\n

While economic reforms are proceeding fairly smoothly, the political convoy seems to have hit a roadblock — a point underlined by recent police beatings in central Cairo of demonstrators demanding independence for the judiciary. Mubarak, who will mark a quarter century in power in October, will eventually die or become too old to rule. But just who will succeed him is far from clear. “It’s the million dollar question, ” says Orascom Telecom’s Sawiris.
\nThe regime’s jealous guarding of power has prevented strong non-religious parties from emerging, playing to the advantage of the Islamists. Gamal Mubarak, the president’s pro-business son, hasn’t caught fire as a candidate. On a plane returning from Sharm el Sheikh to Cairo, a prominent Indian businessman worried that Amr Moussa — the charismatic and populist Arab League secretary general and former Egyptian foreign minister who’s a caustic critic of the U.S. — could seize the opportunity. But in the short term, a successor closer to the security establishment seems more likely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}