What “boring news” can teach you about Egypt

Reading boring news can help understate the dynamics of the political discourse in Egypt now, Nathan Brown and Mai El Sadany write in a piece for the Carnegie Endowment’s Diwan portal that comes off a tad schizophrenic. They note that Egyptian leadership currently “still has murky lines of command and decision within its own ranks. What seems to be emerging is a state ruled from the presidency, the military, and the security bodies with the relations among them hidden from public view. However, the results of their decisions and the general contours of the regime they are building are fairly clear for those who read the boring news.”