"Mohammed Aboul-Ghar, a seventy-three-year-old academic and politician who
has been a leading figure in Egypt’s liberal establishment, and now represents
one of the most confounding elements of the country’s current crisis: the
wholesale alignment of old-guard liberals with the military.
(...)
All around us, the walls of his apartment were covered with works of fine
art from Egyptian painters. (“They’re very famous,” he told me. “And expensive.”) "
