Is Sisi losing his grip on Egypt?
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"Sisi is not losing his grip on Egypt. He never had one."
Is Sisi losing his grip on Egypt? No, because Sisi never had a grip on Egypt in the first place. The illusion that he did is one of the fundamental root causes behind the miserable state of affairs in Egypt today.
As I have argued, Egyptians have a hierarchical conceptualisation of power. Power is possessed by those high up and is wielded upon those lower below. In reality, power is diffuse and resistance is possible at every level.
The coup that took place from June 30 to July 3 was possible only because a wide coalition of forces came together to bring an end to Egypt's brief democratic experiment. Many of us who supported Egypt's democratically elected president understood that the coalition arraigned against him would be unsustainable.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/sisi-losing-grip-egypt-160426080703098.html
