Egypt: The Perils of Succession

Egyptian blogger Baheyya gives us an insight to the perils of succession in Egypt. “With Hosni Mubarak’s rapidly advancing senility and Gamal Mubarak’s incremental supremacy, the moment of power transfer is imminent and its direction appears clear. But there are so many wild cards and possible eleventh-hour developments at this juncture that the only certainty is that extraordinary uncertainty will accompany the process of succession,” she writes.

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