In Egypt, Politics Meets Soccer in The Battle of Port Said

Nancy Elshami* | 3 Feb 2012

  The violence Egypt has witnessed during the so-called ‘Battle of Port Said’ has grave implications for the trajectory of Egypt’s revolution and the country’s prospects for stability and democratization.  As over seventy lie dead with hundreds wounded, a chilling picture of political strategy, rather than soccer mayhem, emerges.  This is not the first...