CAIRO — A constitution-writing assembly dominated by Islamists approved a new national charter early Friday in a rushed vote that President Mohamed Morsi’s backers hoped would calm Egypt’s political crisis but that seemed destined only to exacerbate it.
Analysts said the constitution itself — at least the portions of the text made public so far — appears to be neither the deeply Islamist document that Morsi’s critics feared nor the explicitly inclusive, progressive charter that liberal and secular revolutionaries had hoped would guide the world’s largest Arab nation.
: Demonstrations in Cairo:
Analysts said the constitution itself — at least the portions of the text made public so far — appears to be neither the deeply Islamist document that Morsi’s critics feared nor the explicitly inclusive, progressive charter that liberal and secular revolutionaries had hoped would guide the world’s largest Arab nation.
: Demonstrations in Cairo: