Reuters

4 July 2013

 

By Shibley Telhami

 

It was not supposed to turn out this way: Only a year after Egyptians freely elected Mohamed Mursi as their president for a four-year term, he was removed by a military decree. This sets in motion a "road map" for a new transitional period leading to another experiment akin to the period following the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.