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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
17 Jul 2013
A year after his victory in Egypt's historic first free election Mohamed Morsi has been ousted. Since his removal from power by the military on 3 July tensions have soared on the streets of Egypt.
In the early hours of 8 July 51 Muslim Brotherhood supporters were killed outside a Cairo barracks, where they believe Mohamed Morsi is being held. The Muslim Brotherhood claim its members were fired on as they staged a sit-in, while the army said it had responded to an armed provocation.
Egypt's military have moved quickly installing a new interim president, Adly Mansour, the chief justice of Egypt's constitutional court. Adly Mansour has subsequently set out a timetable for amending the constitution, and for parliamentary and presidential elections for early 2014
With events developing at great speed we will be taking stock of what has happened and asking what this means for Egypt's future.
Chaired by Jonathan Rugman, foreign affairs correspondent at Channel 4 News.
The Panel
Dina Wahba is an independent activist.
Mohamed Yehia is the multi-media editor at BBC Arabic.
Mona Al-Qazzaz is six months away from obtaining her PhD degree at Cambridge University. She participated in the revolution in January 2011 and she is currently the spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK. Her brother is one of the senior assistants of Mohamed Morsi who has been facing incommunicado detention.
Dr Maha Azzam is an associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House.
Dr Omar Ashour is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. He is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements.
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