Khaled Fahmy on the new restrictions on Mubarak

Khaled Fahmy, the Chair of our Department of History at the American University in Cairo, is interviewed HERE about the new assets freeze and travel ban on Mubarak.

Fahmy is a strong regime critic who took some risks with some of his public statements in the months before the revolution. Here he interprets the measures against Mubarak as something serious (that was my sense as well). Effectively, the army is burning its bridges with the old regime and trying to establish its own legitimacy on a new basis.

“Now the public prosecutor is going after the very head of the previous regime, the head of state himself. The significance lies in the fact that the public prosecutor had actually been appointed by Mubarak himself.”