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Naguib Sawiris - Businessman and founder, Free Egyptians Party

Zeinab Badawi speaks to a leading member of Egypt's liberal and secular elite, the Coptic Christian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris about the divisions in his country.

How far is the Arab world's most populous and influential country becoming polarised between Islamist and secularist forces? The current vote for a new constitution in Egypt has exposed divisions which at times have erupted into violence on the streets between supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Zeinab Badawi speaks to a leading member of Egypt's liberal and secular elite, the Coptic Christian billionaire businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris. Who has a better claim to be democratic - the Islamists or their opponents?

30 minutes

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Presenter Zeinab Badawi

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