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Tanjil Rashid is a British journalist who writes for The Guardian and The Huffington Post. He is also a producer at The Pod Academy. He lives in Cairo and studied at Cambridge University.
The more ignorant foreign observers in Cairo last week might have thought Egypt had just won Euro 2012. But it was a far grander victory that Egyptians were celebrating with such aplomb. The eruption of the streets of Cairo in roaring delight at the inauguration of Mohamed Morsy did not go unnoticed in the Western …
While most Egyptians’ sights have been homed in on the future, after the election of Muhammad Morsi to the presidency, it was through the prism of the past that the Western press viewed this week’s news.
This week, the Western press was gripped by the electoral drama in a Mediterranean nation with a history of military meddling now in the midst of a national crisis. I am talking, of course, about Greece, whose elections piped Egypt’s to the front pages. Not that the great game of Egypt’s own electoral politics hasn’t attracted its fair share of commentary. They all knew …