Marina Ottaway

Snapshot
Marina Ottaway

Secularists have taken to the streets to argue that Egypt's new constitution, likely to be ratified this week, is an illegitimate document produced in an undemocratic process. What they really fear, however, is that normal politics will soon return to the country -- setting up a fight that they know they can't win.

Capsule Review
Fall
1981
Jennifer Seymour Whitaker