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{"id":1054,"date":"2019-11-13T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naeem-writing.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2021-11-27T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T04:20:50","slug":"in-egypt-nothing-has-changed-but-perhaps-everything-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naeem-writing.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"In Egypt, nothing has changed \u2014 but perhaps everything has"},"content":{"rendered":"
Can we venture to declare that Egypt has arrived at a new and dangerous turning point? Yes and no. For although nothing significant has materialized recently, the specter of a major shift looms. While our capacity to act, to take initiative, or even to think has been completely crippled, conditions on the ground are moving in the opposite direction, as if history has a mind of its own and is imposing its will on this current state of stagnation to declare the beginning of the end of an era.<\/span><\/p>\n
It is no exaggeration to say that all aspects of Egypt\u2019s civic life \u2014 its institutions, organizations, media, civil society, universities and political parties \u2014 have been degraded, damaged, besieged and humiliated over the last few years. There is nothing left to attack, but there is something happening now that is different.<\/span><\/p>\n
The end of the 2013 mandate\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
On July 3rd, 2013, former President Mohamed Morsi was ousted with the promise of a vague transitional process. But the current regime was actually established on July 26th, two days after then-Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called upon citizens to take to the streets to grant him a mandate to undertake resolute and exceptional measures in his military capacity to fight terrorism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The turnout on July 26th was not as large as the mass mobilization on June 30th, but it was enough to legitimize the presence of the Armed Forces on the streets and the aggressive return of the security state. The problem was that the conditions of the mandate were rudimentary and vague, and the military leader who was granted it was not actually bound by its terms. The mandate to fight terrorism turned into a mandate to rule over everything \u2014 to assume all political, economic and social decision-making at all levels.<\/span><\/p>\n
The smaller crowds on July 26th constituted the most extreme segment of the June 30th protesters. They were unorganized and angry, and they readily endorsed a process that would come to completely dominate political life. Although they were not the majority, they immediately sapped public will and helped to legitimize military rule as the one and only solution to the political failures of the Muslim Brotherhood and their alienating form of governance.<\/span><\/p>\n
The Armed Forces welcomed the public\u2019s response to Sisi\u2019s urgent appeal. The large demonstration allowed the military to declare that the masses stood behind them; everyone who took to the streets that day was deemed to be in favor of the mandate. When citizens were stopped at police checkpoints, interactions were friendly and accommodating, even if they were only superficial.<\/span><\/p>\n