Zawahiri at the Helm - Lawrence Wright

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/06/zawahiri-at-the-helm.html

One big difference in Zawahiri’s leadership from that of his predecessor is likely to be a renewed focus on Egypt. Zawahiri’s terrorist career began when he was fifteen years old, when he started a cell to overthrow the Egyptian government. Now the government actually has been overthrown, no thanks to Zawahiri’s efforts. The country is in a tumultuous and formative but also vulnerable moment in its history, which Zawahiri will seek to exploit. He knows that Egypt is the real game in the Islamist contest for power. The future of Egypt will determine much of what happens in the rest of the Arab world