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April 01, 2012

NYT: In Egyptian hard-liner’s surge, new worries for the Muslim Brotherhood

by David D. Kirkpatrick
The New York Times

CAIRO — Hazem Salah Abu Ismail is an old-school Islamist.

He wants to move toward abolishing Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel and cites Iran as a successful model of independence from Washington. He worries about the mixing of the genders in the workplace and women’s work outside the home. And he promises to bring extraordinary prosperity to Egypt, if it turns its back on trade with the West.

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