Tomorrow’s Egypt

Source:
Daily News Egypt
Date of source:
19 May 2014
Reference:
“For a century and a half the Arab world has been following a negative policy. It has
known what it wanted to do away with, but it has not known what it wanted to build.
[…] Democracy was only a veil for dictatorship. Constitutions framed in the interest
of the people of the Middle East became instruments for their exploitation and
domination. Egypt’s story in these years centres upon the effort to free the country
from a foreign yoke and to find a policy capable of eradicating the evils accumulated
by feudalism and compounded by misuse of governmental power. It was a long and
painful search. Egyptians hoped for leaders to champion their cause and defend their
interests, but politicians and factions for the most part made themselves subservient
to the forces that were ravaging the country.”