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February 11, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49612-2003Feb9.html

Gorbachev on the Nile?

(Washington Post) - Jackson Diehl Last week, Gamal Mubarak - son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and, for the first time, leader of an official delegation - was received in Washington. Many Egyptians believe that the two Mubaraks are engaged in a tricky maneuver to hand off power from the 74-year-old father to the 39-year-old son in a country that calls itself a constitutional republic. But Gamal is proof that his father's political system has failed to produce real alternatives. It's not only the dynastic succession; it's that the younger Mubarak has adopted his father's Orwellian practice of flatly stating the opposite of what everybody knows about his country.

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