New Age Islam

Islam and the West

Egypt’s Step Backward

by Thomas L. Friedman

Egypt is running out of foreign reserves, its currency is falling, inflation is rising and unemployment is rampant. Egypt today has only two predators: poverty and illiteracy. After 30 years of Mubarak rule and some $50 billion in U.S. aid, 33 percent of men and 56 percent of women in Egypt still can’t read or write. That is a travesty. ...

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