Mona Makram Ebeid, former member of Parliament and now distinguished lecturer at the American University of Cairo, describes her experience at the Democratic National Convention in Al Ahram. In sum:
To conclude, the convention, as much as I enjoyed being there, was more about a sensation — euphoria — than a speech tackling the country's actual problems that meet with inattention because they pose disagreeable choices in this intensely polarised election atmosphere.
She essentially endorses Obama anyway.