Sunday, June 24, 2012

Robert Fisk: Morsi is no revolutionary and not much of a nationalist. The army elite has already laid traps for him


Robert Fisk: Morsi is no revolutionary and not much of a nationalist. The army elite has already laid traps for him

While 50 million Egyptians were waiting yesterday to hear that they had elected a Muslim Brotherhood mediocrity over a Mubarak bag-carrier, I paid a visit to the home of Saad Zaghloul. Not for an interview, you understand (Zaghloul died 85 years ago and is buried opposite his house in a mausoleum styled like a pharaonic temple) but as a pilgrimage to a man who might have served Egypt well today, a revolutionary and a nationalist whose Wafd party stood up to the British empire and whose wife, Safeya, was one of the country's great feminists.


Original Page: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-morsi-is-no-revolutionary-and-not-much-of-a-nationalist-the-army-elite-has-already-laid-traps-for-him-7879773.html