June 4,2012
Egypt’s presidential elections this month have been accompanied by the expected media fanfare in Europe and the United States. News outlets are awash with pictures of ink-stained fingers, photographs of people standing in snaking queues to vote through the heat of the day, and headlines hailing the elections as an historic “victory for democracy.” If these representations are to be believed, the revolution that began in Tahrir Square last January has finally come to fruition.
http://www.theafricareport.com/index.php/20120604501812936/soapbox/the-advent-of-democracy-in-egypt-501812936.html
