The National on Egypt's Succession

Nadia Abou el Magd offers a good summary of the Egyptian succession question in this morning's The National, the increasingly essential Abu Dhabi English daily. (My praise is totally independent of the fact that their journalists have interviewed me for a couple of stories.) This story notes that Gamal Mubarak's first daughter Farida was born in London, not Germany or the US as in some early reports, but also notes that it's still awkward for a potential President of Egypt to have his first child born in the capital of the former colonial power.

And since we've been so focused on Mubarak's health, return, granddaughter and other such things lately, I'm not sure if I've yet called your attention to Steven Cook's piece on Mohamed El Baradei in Foreign Affairs. Since Foreign Affairs has a lot more readers than I do, you probably have seen it already, but just in case, there it is.