Faiza Abou el-Naga

"The United States decided to use all its resources and tools to contain the situation and push it in a direction that promotes American and also Israeli interests."

"Egypt unlike other nations whose financial situations force them to seek lending subsidized by other governments around the world should not accept conditions dictated by the World Bank or the IMF."

"But the alleged perpetrators of these dark plots are not shadowy agents of the Central Intelligence Agency, MI6, or even Mossad, as one might suppose she’d say. No, they are by and large an idealistic band of young people from various countries who work for nongovernment organizations attempting to help Egypt build the civil institutions essential for the transition to a functioning democracy."