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ing nagged by his wife to promote his son, about whom he has misgivings;
he doesn’t understand all this talk about reform and laptops and so on. It
is a biting portrait for those initiated into the details of Egyptian politics.
Mubarak’s “cunning peasant” persona re-emerges and Gamal is depicted
as a wet-behind-the-ears incompetent manipulated by his friends, while
countless ministers and security chiefs make appearances as craven village
officials. Were it publishable in Egypt, it would make a hilarious book.
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