However, only specialists could have
guessed the influence figures like Essam Sultan, El’Awa, Ayman Nour, Hesham
Kandil, Emad Abdel Ghafour, Amro Elleithy and Samir Morcos would exert in Morsi’s
state. Theoretically, such figures are referred to as ‘the regime’s periphery’.
Yet in practice, the so-called periphery might exert more pressure on the leadership
than the core.