Photo Gallery Five Decades in Egypt
SPIEGEL's longtime Cairo correspondent has spent more than five decades living in the city. He describes Egypt's decline under a leader obsessed with discipline, calm and stability who lost touch with his people and allowed the Arab world's most vibrant country to stagnate.
Windfuhr (left) is pictured here in Ismailia in 1975, shortly after the reopening of the Suez Canal.
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Here, Windfuhr interviews Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo in 1997. "Sadat was a visionary, a talented speaker who could win people over," Windfuhr writes.
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