The Peninsula Newspaper
Wednesday, 07 September 2011 04:02
Building, construction and development are considered the most important priorities that need to focus on after the success of the revolution and the lack of concern in the sub-issues and raising conflicts, disputes and quarrels and seeking to engage in side battles by revenge and liquidation.
Break with the past and it’s thoughts begins with thinking in the future and building it through the present and it’s challenges.
Report of the media coverage of Egypt pointed out that before the revolution, the images and news of ousted President Hosni Mubarak were occupying front pages in the newspapers and the media, and after the success of the revolution the situation did not change, they are still at the forefront by covering his prosecution (inch by inch) and the important challenges seem to be absent from the daily scene and its implications. Sergei Sergeychev, an economist at the Institute for Middle East, is ringing the alarm bells of a disaster that may cripple the Egyptian economy, which depends on the Suez Canal, the money transferred by Egyptians working abroad, tourism, agriculture, and export of small quantities of oil and gas. Where there are now only the Canal and fund transfers from abroad, which led to the bankruptcy of the budget, in addition to the imposition of the rebel seizure of the accounts of 264 Egyptian businessmen, including ministers and tyrants of money. The Transitional Military Council is unable to repair the situation in the Egyptian economy and the worsening degradation. If the escalation and protests continue the next step will be civil war and emergence of strange political movements, like the separation movement Delta Nile river, and the movement for the independence of the Sinai Peninsula, as there is a continuous drain of time and effort and resources and excess in the theoretical and intellectual treatises, and conflict over religious and civil ideologies, and political differences and divisions between the elites, groups and political parties and between the requirements of the street, it’s desires and daily concerns.
A group of professors of political science at the Renaissance Center for Training and Development identified the reality of the political map after the Egyptian revolution on January 25 with a number of concerns, and the most important is that the political map is being made up again and it is in its early stages, it is difficult, but not required to rush to its completion. There are feelings of fear and worry because of the sharp and disturbing polarization between all the shades, colours, intellectual trends and old and new political entities alike. Situation of division, which dominates the political scenario confirms that the culture of joint work which was a qualitative distinct model during the events of Revolution dropped to the back. Predominance of the terms and words and expressions of the parties not the partners, based on “we and they!” “And who is right and wrong?” “And which is the action and the reaction?”And involved media’s hold-up over the ground and inflaming the dispute between the political trends specially Islamic and liberal for personal considerations or marketing purposes, even the historical calculations. So the system of values and harmony declined and division has got in, and the banners of unity and the national flag came down while the banners of accusations and mistrust, and loss of confidence were raised, in addition to drowning in the seas of internal differences and not paying any attention to the dangers of external threats. A similar scene to what is happening in the Arab countries which people have united with their elites and got rid of the dictatorships, but they can not enter after the victory into the construction and building phase, and their hands still holds the hammer of demolition, smashing and marginalization in Tunisia and Libya, and the Yemen and Syria are not far from the this scene!
Among those who visited Tahreer Square is Mahathir Mohammad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, which provided several tips that can be used, especially when it comes from one of the leaders of the Asian tigers and the one who faced economic problems and crises in Malaysia and was able to move the country from just an agricultural one, dependent on the export of simple goods, to an advanced industrial country. Mahathir pointed out that there are similarities between Egypt and Malaysia, Malaysia was an agricultural country, and there was no opportunity to provide work for people, so it decided to shift to an industrial country, and tried to update its agriculture to increase productivity, and tended to invite foreign investors to set up their projects on the territory of Malaysia, and to overcome obstacles to them, and this happened, so now there are lots of jobs, even the number of foreign workers exceeded a million. Mahathir did not rely on the reports of bureaucrats, but he was asking for precise figures on the situation of the unemployed, illiterate and the marginalised, and he did not allow the manipulation or embellishment of the situation, and the openness for foreigners was a matter of life or death because the building of new Malaysia needed the experience of others, so he decided to rely on the experience of Japan and benefited from the experience of Singapore. The traditional European and American models did not attract him, but the experiences of the countries which are located in his geographical surroundings and had a similarity with the failure of Malaysia. He sent thousands of students and researchers to Japanese universities first, and then to Europe, and established a new administrative and technological capital. The strategy pursued by Japan as Mahathir believes is in the production of quality goods at low prices, the thing that contributed significantly to the achievement of excellence on European and the US products with high prices, and thus he managed to get hold over the markets of Asia and Africa, in addition to follow a systematic policy of manufacturing, and to find leaders who have a high scientific level, and are characterized by the development and innovation and on the moral level in Japan there is the moral and professional obligation of Asian values of work, entailed by the dedication and seriousness in professional performance.
As the Malaysian government has fulfilled its reign for study of market trends and requirements, and accordingly found the demand for scientists, it tended to increase the scientific base of training in the fields of science, technology and mathematics, taking into account the development of the quality of science presented in these areas for the preparation of cadres for the cognitive work, more than 400 Institute and faculty in particular were established, providing studies and twinning programmes with universities of abroad, and the relationship between research centres and universities and the private sector has strengthened, and there was a determination to learn English so that the Malaysian people will not become isolated from the world and other peoples, this knowledge and it’s tools made a big difference as they became able to compete even in manufacturing of its domestic auto and aircraft parts.
Despite the darkness that plagues the Arabic scene after the revolutions the future may be different. Various international economic studies indicate that Tunisia and Egypt, in particular, will be among the strongest 10 economies in the world by 2050 if they carry out a process of comprehensive economic modernisation.
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