Egypt: Disgruntled Workers Pose Threat to Mubarak Government
November 23rd, 2010 by Evan
Yasmine Saleh, writing for Reuters, reports that growing labor unrest threatens the Mubarak government’s grip on Egypt: “With the parliamentary vote and a presidential poll in 2011 posing little threat to the National Democratic Party’s (NDP) grip on power, analysts say the biggest flashpoint lies in the industrial heartlands of the Arab world’s most populous country.” According to Saleh, Egypt’s “healthy-looking economic growth” has had little effect on the lives of most Egyptians. Meanwhile, in a recent installment of her weeklong series on Egypt, NPR’s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson describes Egypt’s long and often awkward transition toward a market economy.
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