HIST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Supreme Council Of The Armed Forces, Ahdaf Soueif, Internal Security Forces
Document Summary
Reports say that there has been a clamp down on civil liberties much more so than during mubarak. She was in the marches, sit ins, and had many interviews in. She is publishing the same book in arabic too. He has always been treated as a war hero from 1973. He became president of egypt after sadat"s death. He ruled for 30 years (second longest reign in modern egyptian history) It is agreed that the rst decade of his rule was promising, better than the second and third. He took a decision to release all egyptian political prisoners. This was an important gesture to signify new freedom. He was able to x the relations: he travelled to arab capitals and all arab countries normalised diplomatic relations with egypt. They became full members of the arab league. Mubarak tended to the ailing infrastructure in cairo and other egyptian cities that suffered neglect under nasser and sadat.
