Naguib Sawiris, Chairman & CEO, Orascom Telecom

with Naguib Sawiris
in Current Affairs, Business
on Monday, February 14, 2011 * * * * *

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Mubarak
Mideast
Egypt
protest
World
unrest
Tahrir Square
Suleiman
politics
Cairo

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    1. vongleichent  02/28/2012 01:32 PM Report

      Wow I didn't know the Egyptians are that committed. All should die if the democracy that was promised by the military should not happen. That's quiet a statement. Should be interesting to see what is going to happen in Egypt.

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    3. jfponeil  02/15/2011 07:52 PM Report

      Isn't Sawiris' perspective on the untimeliness of Mubarak's demise perhaps just a bit skewed by his long relationship and dependence on Mubarak for his billions? An article in The Guardian last June makes those connections clear.

    4. Ellen_Dibble  02/15/2011 05:52 PM Report

      Well, Rob. Incunabula was not the word I wanted. I plead senior moment. Actually I kept putting "nascent" and getting a spelling error. Someone will think of the perfect word but apparently not me.

    5. robdverity  02/15/2011 05:33 PM Report

      Brave and honest of him to admit to wanting the continuity of the constitution and even a lame-duck Mubarack. Most would claim otherwise after the fact.

      Incunabula? Really Ellen? Had to look that up.

    6. Ellen_Dibble  02/15/2011 12:39 PM Report

      Great to have access to the transcript, but this was actually an interview where the body language and facial expressions, the timing, all that, seemed to me very important. I got a lot more out of it than from his phone interview a couple weeks back. Business leaders paid to have the thugs come out, from this man's perspective, and conversely he paid "his" hospital to have medicines smuggled into Tahrir Square to assist the protesters. This is one of the "wise" men, and he did convey the sense of teetertotter that exists. He had not wanted what I'll call the umbilical cord to the former regime to be cut. Whether out of Stockholm syndrome (he brought that out, but clearly a new word is needed for long productive relationships), or out of a sort of fear of heights, he wanted the direct line to the vice president and the constitution in place, not disrupted. One might think the disruption, such as it is, was actually not enough, in that the same old military, appointed and serving over the years of despotism, remains in charge, and why would they change? And how? Who is talking to whom? I am trying to fit this incunabula of a template onto, say, Algeria, using the press links from the Country Profiles at the BBC website, and aside from Google translating like a fish, "Mubarak blue, refuse treatment" -- There is not even a Rough Guide to Libya, or Algeria.