Morsi For Time’s Person of The Year?

The Time’s has launched its candidates for it’s ‘Person of the Year’ issue and our very own has made the cut. Alongside candidates such as Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, Psy and Bashar Assad.

Now considering the diverse nature of the candidates Time Magazine gives you the opertunaty to throw your two cents in and cast your vote and who you deserves the honor. 

The description they have put under President Mohamed Morsy goes as follows:

“Not long ago, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy, 62, was fighting on the margins of his country’s politics. An engineer by training, he studied and taught in California before returning home to the fringe struggle of the once outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. But in the wake of Egypt’s 2011 revolution, no one man’s rise has been as startling — or as important — as that of Morsy, who became the Muslim Brotherhood’s chief presidential candidate only after its first choice was disqualified on a technicality. His and his party’s electoral victory this summer heralded a new moment for the Arab world’s most populous nation, so long kept underfoot by the Western-backed authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak. Democratically elected, Morsy and his Islamist allies are now changing the landscape of Middle Eastern politics. The Muslim Brotherhood’s religiosity is moderate, or at least moderated by pragmatism; its politics are populist and likely the template for a number of other fledgling democracies in the region. In the space of a few months, Morsy outmaneuvered Egypt’s influential generals — the most significant vestiges of the Mubarak regime — and consolidated his grip on power. And as rockets exploded over Gaza and Israel, he played an instrumental — some would say historic — role in brokering a cease-fire between Hamas and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. What’s in store for the future is uncertain. Immediately after the Gaza cease-fire, Morsy put his popularity and the grudging tolerance of his secular opposition to the test by assuming near autocratic powers until the country finalizes a new constitution. He may not be pliant to Western interests, but many Egyptians have begun to speculate as to whether he is hewing to their country’s old authoritarian past. Whatever his motives, Morsy will be in prime position to shape the region’s future.” 

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