Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, Professor Brown. We appreciate having you with us today.
I've scribbled on the paper here about nine different things, because your testimony is certainly interesting to us.
When we consider Egypt itself as a country prior to the last two years, many outsiders would not see it as an Islamic fundamentalist country like, say, Saudi Arabia. Within the Brotherhood, and within the former powers that be, which still are, to a great degree, in power there, I think there's a modest push and shove back and forth.
I'm pleased to see the constitution that developed in the manner it did relative to rights and that. You raise a significant concern, though, in the fact that there's nobody to turn to in order to enforce the rights.
Are you optimistic that they'll change that, that they will put in place mechanisms to guarantee those rights?