'The Great Betrayal': Revolutions rarely succeed in the first attempt - review
Fawaz Gerges makes a compelling case that political and economic reform has been stifled by several mutually reinforcing factors.
ANGRY YOUTHS gather in central Cairo in 2012, protesting thenEgyptian president Islamist Mohamed Morsi, near Tahrir Square, the heart of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak(photo credit: MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY/REUTERS)