Faustian pact with Egypt’s security state, by Nizar Manek
English edition blogs, 28 February 2014
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As the area around the fenced-up Meidan Tahrir pulsed with what felt like a gigantic fascist carnival for the cult of Field Marshal Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the shadow of Gamal Abdel Nasser seemed to rise from the pages of history. It was 25 January 2014, the third anniversary of the beginning of the end of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak’s rule - and the start of the protests that sought to end six decades of military rule, which had begun with Nasser and the military junta that deposed King Farouk. The Free Officers’ putsch of 1952 not only dispensed with constitutional monarchy and removed Egypt from the orbit of British colonialism; it also set loose Egypt’s army as autonomous agents answerable to no one.