World newspapers do not stop raising questions about the future of Egypt and stability in the Middle East region after the Muslim Brotherhood made it to power but more important than this is the grave concerns dominating the 12 million or more people – including women, Copts and artists – who voted for Mursī’s contender, Ahmad Shafīq, writes political activist Sa’d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm in an opinion article in al-Misrī al-Yawm.

I have watched screams and cries by Egyptian men and women on the TV after Mursī was announced president and some have even gone as far as accusing Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) of “giving the homeland as a gift to the Muslim Brotherhood through a conspiracy”.

Although I do not share those people the accusations they hurled, the grief I sensed betrays genuinely legitimate concerns about losing citizenship millions of Egyptians obtained during the early weeks of the January 25 revolution. [Sa’d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, al-Misrī al-Yawm, June 30, p. 17] Read original text in Arabic