Tahrir institute for Middle East Policy executive director Nancy Okail says Egypt is in “dire shape,” but she wishes she could go back to it, in a piece in The Washington Post. Okail was sentenced to five years in prison as part of the foreign funding NGO case number 173 in 2013, but has been living in exile in the US since. Okail says Egypt is in “continued deterioration,” but that “opposition is not an end unto itself. We must strive to find solutions to existing problems.”