Fahlawa (n.): "a combination of intuition, horse sense, experience, denial, and wit… intimately Egyptian...Fahlawa is the skill to survive in a modern world you are not prepared for, by using the pre-modern skills that you have learned naturally." (adapted from "What is Fahlawa?" http://goo.gl/Y1f2W)
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Egypt's Treason Law: Using Mubarak-era Tactics to Keep Mubarak's Cronies Out
Earlier this summer, I wrote an article for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's "Fikra Forum" about the ongoing economic debate in Egypt. Today, I just published my second piece on the site. This article is about Egypt's newly-amended "Treason Law," which is aimed at keeping Hosni Mubarak's former cronies in the now-defunct National Democratic Party out of Egypt's future political scene. As you will see in my article, however, this law has the potential to backfire and open the door to a new era of dictatorship in Egypt. You can find it here on Fikra Forum.
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