February 11, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — The resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak represents "the first step of many steps," according to Barbara Ibrahim, founding director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and
Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo and 1971 graduate of DePauw University. Ibrahim spoke with the Washington Examiner yesterday from Cairo after Mubarak announced he would continue as president until September. Today, Mubarak resigned and turned over all power to the military.
According to Ibrahim, "What Egypt needs is a regime change and not just the removal of Mubarak."
Sara A. Carter writes that Barbara Lethem Ibrahim "is the wife of Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a prominent Egyptian human rights activist and scholar who was imprisoned in 2000 after speaking out against Mubarak." Saad Ibrahim taught sociology at DePauw from 1967 to 1974.
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