{"id":30937,"date":"2012-02-20T01:50:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_the_muslim_brotherhood_looks_west_in_bid_to_revive_egyptian_economy\/"},"modified":"2012-02-20T01:50:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T01:50:04","slug":"wsj_the_muslim_brotherhood_looks_west_in_bid_to_revive_egyptian_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30937","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) The Muslim Brotherhood Looks West in Bid to Revive Egyptian Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard reality is steering&#8230;[a] transformation. Confronted with a badly sinking economy, the Brotherhood doesn&#8217;t have the luxury of harping endlessly about Zionist conspiracies, American hypocrisy, or bikini-clad tourists\u201d\u201dnot if it wants to put Egypt back together again.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism revenue dropped by at least one-third since the uprising, according to government statistics. And billions of dollars of annual foreign investment\u201d\u201dwhich peaked at $13.7 billion in 2007\u201d\u201dwere almost entirely choked off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Egypt is running smack into an economic wall,&#8221; said Karim Sadek, a managing director at Citadel Capital, a Cairo-based private-equity firm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204062704577220454030969184.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard reality is steering&#8230;[a] transformation. Confronted with a badly sinking economy, the Brotherhood doesn&#8217;t have the luxury of harping endlessly about Zionist conspiracies, American hypocrisy, or bikini-clad tourists\u201d\u201dnot if it wants to put Egypt back together again. Tourism revenue dropped<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30937\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,149,560,119,426,203,155,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-economy","category-egypt","category-globalization","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}