A.M. Aboul Fotouh

摘要

In college he helped found Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyya, a group still on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations. In the early 1980s he was imprisoned alongside al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri. This week the Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh is hoping to become Egypt's first democratically elected president. And his supporters include some of the liberals who led Egypt's revolution 16 months ago.The peculiarity says something about Egypt these days. The liberals who ousted longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak after 18 days of protests-the bloggers, the tweeters, even the Google executive Wael Ghonim-have all been sidelined, and the battle is now between the Islamists and the remnants of the old regime.