![]() GCC rifts and support for Cairo in the post-revolutionary eraĪt the outset of the Arab Spring era in 2011, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) strongly supported the continuation of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency, seeing him as a bulwark against instability and the rise of nonstate political Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) type. The calculus was unassuming, pragmatic, and blunt: “We need Egypt to be stable.” That sentiment wasn’t simply his own arguably, it’s the same sentiment that has dominated the mindset of pretty much all GCC leaders when it comes to Egypt, and that feeling hasn’t changed-although how it has been expressed over the past decade has. The nuances and details of the political realities in Cairo, the author recalls, were relatively unimportant. ![]() ![]() Following the end of the 2011-2013 revolutionary period in Egypt, the author had the opportunity to engage with a senior minister in one of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in a private setting on the GCC’s relationship with the Arab world’s most populous nation. ![]()
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