The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

عمر سليمان

عمر سليمان
Blog dedicated to advocating Omar Suleiman as Egypt's next president - today's front page story in al-Dustour. Its slogan: "no to the Brothers, no to Gamal". I think this representative of a fairly large constituency in Egypt, but you have to wonder: Mubarak-haters are unhappy with his son, understandably, but why then go with his right-hand man? The other thing you have to wonder - who's behind the blog? Is this a test balloon by the Omar Suleiman people as we approach succession? The game is on, people, the game is on.