How Egypt Fails its Citizens…

In a scathing op-ed in the independent Daily News Egypt, Ibrahim Al-Houdaiby counts the ways in which one’s life is endangered by the Mubarak regime every day. It may be the overzealous security apparatus or the corrupt police; the decrepit facilities and malpractice at state-run hospitals; the tainted water system and rotten food imports; or the slow desperation borne of a lifetime of illiteracy and poverty. His diagnosis:

“The regime is still pursuing an aggressive economic neoliberal capitalist approach but still upholds an absolute absence of the necessary political liberalization and democratization that provides for the necessary checks and balances, transparency and accountability.”

And his conclusion: “The state’s inability to fulfill its responsibilities due to the regime’s focus on securing its leaders’ survival might lead to anarchy, while leading official figures in the West still insist on supporting the regime against its own people.”

Houdaiby will be featured at a POMED panel discussion this Monday, Oct. 6. See the event flyer here.