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Mursi release some new rules which make him somehow untouchable. Not nice and not smart. Nevertheless these rules are needed to ensusure a safe transition until the constitution is ready. The big mistake of Mursi was it, not to include the secular parties in his thinking and decision process. Now the secular parties see their dawn coming and play with the fire of civil war. For me it does not look like people who try to find a solution but more like people who follow up their own ego interests. This is politics. Not only in Egypt.

My second year here in Cairo started a few days ago while I was in China to do some workshops and a lecture. This might be a sign for the future.

Protests started again at the GUC and there are surveillance cameras everywhere. No step can be done without being watched by an artifical eye. Most of the students just want to study and to learn, others just want to have their student union election. Yesterday marks the first day with real clashes between security and some students. The state media reported, that the security attacked students. There seems to be some proof, that this is not true. Nevertheless we can read the report as a sign, that the direction of the storm has changed and that it is now blowing into GUC’s face.

We will see.

I was wrong! The president did his job and the military  seems so be out of charge. Things are developing not too bad and president Morsi confirmed several times that the country is not turning into a theocracy. Space for optimism left.

On the other hand the semester started. Working under special conditions. The story will be told some day, but not here and now. It takes some time to think the things through.

Egypt has a president. Without any power. The parliament is gone as well and the military has all the saying for the upcoming events. Besides of this the German government is prosecuting militant Salafi organisations in Germany. The mixture makes it somehow interesting.

People Downtown are celebrating the victory of Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, in a peaceful way. At least it seems that he is the winner. Of course not accepted by his opponent Shafik. The final result will be published on Thursday. The military wants to hand over power at the end of June. (Whatever that means under the actual circumstances).

We wait and see.