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EGYPT: Super Tuesday from afar

By Jeffrey FleishmanStaff Writer 
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Predictions, opinions, outrage, and a longing for the end of the Bush presidency were prominent in much of the Arab press as Americans went to the polls on Super Tuesday. Jafar Mohammad Ahmad, writing in al-Khaleej in the United Arab Emirates, had this to say:

‘Change has been the battle cry of the current elections, after the seven terrible years that America has had under the administration of current President George Bush. In fact, Hillary Clinton has gone as far as to compare her competitor Barack Obama to Bush, making the point that voters should not chose a candidate whom they know very little about as they did with Bush, and then be astounded by the direction the country has taken. . .This attack and critique on the eve of Super Tuesday sends a signal to Americans and the entire world that a change is needed in America, after Bush’s policies and wars and their disastrous consequences that will haunt us for years.’

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— Jeffrey Fleishman in Cairo

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Jeffrey Fleishman

Jeffrey Fleishman is a senior writer at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was the foreign and national editor. A 2002 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, Fleishman was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing. A longtime foreign correspondent, he served as bureau chief for The Times in Cairo and Berlin, and was previously based in Rome for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He also was a writer on film, art and culture. Fleishman has been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and a finalist for the Center for Public Integrity’s Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. He is the author of five novels, including “Good Night, Forever” and “Last Dance.”

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