REBEL ECONOMY | Rebuilding after the Arab Spring. Isabel Esterman. Eric Schewe | Past and Present in Egypt and the Middle East. 3arabawy. Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Rantings of a Sandmonkey. - Home ------- الصفحة الرئيسية. Tahrir & Beyond. The Delta Blog | The Egypt Report. Prefatory note: your negligent blogger has been battling a deep bout of depression over the past week that has made following Egyptian politics an unusually bitter experience. This has, it should be made clear, nothing to do with why the site hasn’t been updated as of late and instead entirely to do with the disqualification of presidential candidate-cum-bearded-genius Hazem Salah Abu Ismail; or as I like to call him, the most entertaining reason to tune into Egyptian politics.
Personal business aside, so much has been written about Ismail that I would normally question featuring him as a topic for this blog. But for all the hoopla surrounding his late March surge to presidential superstardom, very little has actually been said about the magnitude and implications of what this man has just accomplished. In a relatively short period and with almost nothing in the way of formal support, Ismail essentially launched Egypt’s Islamist-Obama 2008 campaign.
“By sharia we will live dignified.” Adrift on the Nile. CairObserver.