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Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-11-2004_pg3_6
Egypt Needs a President, Not a Latter-Day Pharaoh
(Daily Times-Pakistan) - Saad Eddin Ibrahim Mubarak has been reelected four times, and rumors have persisted that he will either seek a fifth six-year term or establish a "hereditary republic" and groom his 41-year-old son, Gamal, to succeed him, like Syria's Hafez al-Assad and son Bashar. The opposition battle cry is "no" to Mubarak's re-election and "no" to passing the presidency to Gamal. Many Egyptians find it mortifying that, after 24 years of the father, they might be stuck with another 24 or more years of the son. The writer is Professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo.