AUC’s President weighs in

Dr. Anderson happens to be a Libya specialist:

“An expert on Libya said she believed the regime was collapsing. ‘Unlike the fall of the regime in Tunisia and Egypt, this is going to be a collapse into a civil war,’ said Lisa Anderson, president of the American University in Cairo…”

The story also says this:

“Seif has often been put forward as the regime’s face of reform and is often cited as a likely successor.”

“Face of reform” was certainly the impression he gave when I saw him lecture last May 5 in Cairo. It was a pretty good talk, but I guess it was just a good act. Even before the recent events, it sounds as if he was not only tightly laced in with his father’s regime, but also a bit of a decadent playboy, hosting lavish yacht parties in St.-Tropez and Monaco.