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Mona Makram-Ebeid

Carrie Gracie talks to Mona Makram-Ebeid, an Egyptian politician, a feminist and a Coptic Christian. On all three grounds, might the future be worse than the Mubarak past?

Six months ago Egyptians were beginning to think the unthinkable. In Tahrir Square demonstrators called for a new kind of politics and eventually managed to remove the 30 year Mubarak dictatorship. Christians hoped for greater tolerance. Women hoped for a bigger voice. But since then churches have been attacked, women harassed and Islamist parties say they expect a majority in the September elections.

HARDtalk's Carrie Gracie talks to Mona Makram-Ebeid, a politician, a feminist and a Coptic Christian. On all three grounds, might the future be worse than the Mubarak past?

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