Egyptians are in the unenviable predicament of being about to exchange their six-decade-old authoritarian military dictatorship for a hardline Islamist government headed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The regime change is unlikely to be smooth, and Egypt faces the prospect of severe and prolonged food shortages if not famine.
The political turmoil last year that the Western media enthusiastically hailed as the “Arab Spring” could become what a growing number of Middle East watc…
