From hosting the OIC Summit meeting in February to overseeing an economy racked by inflation, Egyptian President Morsi failed at governance tasks great and small. Perhaps, the only success of his presidency came in brokering a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in 2012. A policy supported by the Egyptian military who toppled Morsi earlier this month. Depending on your perspective the coup in Egypt is either the culmination of the 2011 uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak or its greatest reversal. Such are the vagaries of Egyptian politics that authoritarians are now democrats and democrats are now authoritarians.
Read Full Article »
