In Egypt, Institutional Insanity is the New Normal

Expand Mohamed Abdellatif, former Assistant Secretary-General of the Dentists’ Syndicate in Egypt. © Private Mohamed Abdellatif, a young Egyptian dentist, has been a friend of mine since we went to the same secondary school in Giza, just a few hundred meters from Cairo University, where we also studied together. He went to dentistry school and I went to medical school, on the same campus in al-Kasr Ainy which hosts Cairo University Hospitals. In college I joined several campus opposition activities, but Abdellatif did not. I naively thought I was better than he was. I was not. That was…

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