Commentaries And Analysis On The Crisis In Egypt

Egypt: What Happens Next? -- Ian Black, The Guardian

With President Mohamed Morsi looking increasingly isolated, here are three possible scenarios for Egypt

Outright military takeover

General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's defence minister, demands that Morsi resign. Morsi refuses, insisting he enjoys full democratic legitimacy. Troops surround the presidential palace and Muslim Brotherhood premises and place Morsi under house arrest along with other senior Brotherhood leaders. Morsi supporters form militias and take to the streets to protest against the "counter-revolutionary" army coup.

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Commentaries And Analysis On The Crisis In Egypt

Could Mohamed ElBaradei Be Egypt's Next Ruler? -- David Kenner, Passport/Foreign Policy
In Egypt, all eyes are on the army -- Magdi Abdelhadi, The Guardian
Showdown in Egypt -- Omar Ashour, Project Syndicate
The Egyptian State Unravels -- Mara Revkin, Foreign Affairs
Egypt Needs Consensus, Not Revolution -- Bloomberg editorial
The army isn’t the answer for Egypt -- Richard Spencer, The Telegraph
Egypt: Ruling But Not Governing -- Steven A. Cook, Council on Foreign Relations
The battle for Egypt’s future continues -- Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star
Egypt in Crisis -- Marina Ottaway, National Interest
Will military intervention end hopes for a democratic Egypt? -- Nancy A. Youssef and Amina Ismail, McClatchy Foreign Staff
Obama needs to support democracy, oppose a coup in Egypt -- Washington Post editorial
Why Egyptian protesters welcome the support of the army -- Dalia Ziada, Special to CNN
In Egypt, Democrats vs. Liberals -- Samer S. Shehata, New York Times
Brotherhood lacks mandate to impose its regional vision -- Faisal Al Yafai, The National
Egyptians worry as old and new guard struggle for power -- Jeremy Bowen, BBC
Who Will Save Egypt? Cairo's Economic Disaster and Those Fighting to Fix It -- Marina Ottaway, Foreign Affairs
It's not just Morsi, it's the entire political class -- Christian Donath, Al Jazeera
Talk like Egyptians -- Telegraph Editorial
Will the Egyptian Military Scrap the Sharia Constitution? -- Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO
The Irony of Tahrir Square -- Ashraf Khalil, Foreign Affairs
The myth of political Islam has been exposed in Egypt -- Bessma Momani, The Globe and Mail
Grinding poverty is underlying cause of Egypt crisis -- Robert Fox, London Evening Standard
Egypt in 90 seconds: From Mubarak to Morsi -- BBC