What remains of Nasser's vision?

Egypt Today

Today is a slow news day, so here's an interesting piece looking at how Egypt has (or hasn't) lived up to the promises made after the revolution.

The 0.5 percent ruling elite has been replaced by a 5 percent ruling class. The poor are still getting poorer, the rich are still rich, and one cannot imagine the modern Inji, a graduate of international schools and universities and daughter of a successful business leader, marrying the modern Ali, a graduate of state schools and universities who would probably be today the son of a microbus driver.

More than five decades after the uprising, it is hard not to wonder about the social, political and historical forces that shaped the events of the day. And so profound has the Revolution’s impact been that the event seems in retrospect to have been both inevitable and, to many, inevitably doomed to have been overtaken by the tide of events that followed.

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