It is not certain, for example, that the Egypt of 2007 can deliver the kind of influence it once wielded when it was seen as the political and cultural center of the Arab world.

• 类似曾被视为阿拉伯世界的政治文化中心的埃及在2007年能不能施加它曾经发挥的影响力这样的问题也不能确定。