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August 14, 2012

Egypt Power Map: Back to the Drawing Board

El Amrani, The Arabist

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The above chart is something I created about 2-3 weeks ago to illustrate a still-to-be-published report. It's all changed now, and I'm going to have to restart mostly from scratch.

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TAGGED: SCAF, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt

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