1.  What is the NDP?

2.  Who is Gamal Mubarak?

3.  For what reason did Gamal Mubarak criticize the U.S. government during his speech to the NDP this week?

4.  Why were Mr. Mubarak's remarks about the U.S. surprising?

5.  a) Name the two countries that receive the most aid from the U.S. per year.
b)  How much aid has Egypt received from the U.S. since 1975?  (Find the answer at the website for the U.S. government's USAID usaid.gov.)
c)  Where does the money come from that is given to Egypt by the U.S.?

6.  Read about the purpose for USAID at usaid.gov/about_usaid/.  What do you think of the goal for these U.S. funds and how the money is being used?

7.  Gamal Mubarak did not even attend an NDP conference until the last one 5 years ago.  Now he is the party's No. 2 official and has just been elected to the Supreme Committee which will choose the party's presidential candidate in 2011.  He is credited by some as trying to turn the NDP into more of a real political party that exists to legitimize his father's hold on power.  But they also say he shares his father's authoritarian impulse.  Read the BACKGROUND ON EGYPT'S GOVERNMENT below.
Do you think that Gamal Mubarak will become Egypt's next president?  Explain your answer.