There is no doubt that we are in the throes of a crisis. Only I like to be optimistic, always. There is a domestic crisis and a regional one. There is also an international crisis. And all these crises are interrelated. The world is suffering the consequences of a global dispensation controlled by a single superpower that listens only to the voice of its own political and military might.
This is a problem not only for us, but even for Washington's allies in Europe. There is, too, the deterioration in the Arab situation, which has been worsening since the war of 1948. But there is no doubt that the domestic crisis, whether a result of homegrown problems or a reflection of the wider crisis, impacts most powerfully on people's lives. It expresses itself most clearly in economic failure, the result of faulty policies. We could take some solace, though, in the realisation that this is not the worst crisis Egypt has faced. During a certain period in Fatimid times conditions were so lamentable that people resorted to eating each other. Yet the Egyptians lived on, and Egyptian civilisation continued to radiate throughout the world.
There is no doubt that we are in the throes of a crisis. Only I like to be optimistic, always. There is a domestic crisis and a regional one. There is also an international crisis. And all these crises are interrelated. The world is suffering the consequences of a global dispensation controlled by a single superpower that listens only to the voice of its own political and military might.
