Comments on: Egypt is feeling the heat https://www.yourish.com/2005/10/20/210 Cutting straight to the point Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:42:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Cynic https://www.yourish.com/2005/10/20/210/comment-page-1#comment-623 Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:42:11 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=210#comment-623 They worry about the Palestinians but give little thought to their own.
At the boiling point

Job demand is high in today’s Egypt, but supply is low – leaving millions of young people without a future, caught between the socialist country that no longer exists and the globalizing capitalist one, which is not yet ready to stand on its own.

What’s more, corruption controls most aspects of the economy and government.

“In Egypt, you need wasta,” said Ashraf, referring to what Israelis would call protektzia,…

]]> By: mrdrybones https://www.yourish.com/2005/10/20/210/comment-page-1#comment-612 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:38:12 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=210#comment-612 Meryl
I too have been feeling an undercurrent of something maybe good about to happen in the middle east. An american army in Iraq and Iraqis going to the polls? Egypt staggering towards democracy? Maybe? Assad screwing up. Lebanon looking to free itself? Expressing the feeling openly is obviously tempting the evil eye, which your thoughtful post skillfully (but narrowly) avoids.

Dry Bones

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