Can Egypt Actually Avoid a Civil War?

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa course: civilization language: English abstract: In the light of the military intervention to depose the first democratically elected president in Egypt Muhammad Morsi on July 2 2013 there had been immediate calls to avoid a downfall to civil war. The analogy of the military coup in Egypt and the Algerian scenario of 1992 has haunted all intellectual and political circles ever since. The fears of an escalation of violence against the army and its supporters from secularists and the Mubarak regime loyalists emerged (...)