Clinton to meet new Egyptian leader amid continuing uncertainty CAIRO - A year and a half after the chaotic fall of Hosni Mubarak, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton finally has an elected Egyptian leader to sit down with in Cairo Saturday. But she arrives to a political scene hardly more settled than when tear gas still filled the streets. President Mohamed Morsi, who took office last month, has yet to name a cabinet. The Egyptian parliament is in limbo and the new constitution remains unwritten. And the president spent most of the week before Clinton's visit embroiled in a power struggle with vestiges of the old regime that showed how blurred the lines of power remain. There's no helping the timing, analysts said. Neither country can wait for tidier conditions before beginning to restitch one of the most important strategic relationships in the region. "What she will see is a newly elected president for the first time, but a country that is still defining itself," said Nabil Fahmy, a former Egyptian ambassador to the United States and now dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo. The U.S.-Egyptian relationship is too important for either side to be complacent about. You do as much as you can during each phase of the process. It's unlikely, given the unsettled state of things, that Clinton and Morsi will launch substantive discussions. The secretary is here in the president's first month to make an early show of support for the fledgling democratic government, and particularly Morsi's attempts to restart the moribund economy. Those efforts could get a significant boost if Washington can start releasing billions in aid earmarked for the country. Clinton is expected to encourage the ongoing, faltering steps toward reform. And she will raise the sensitive issue of Egypt's peace treaty with Israel and recent worrisome cross-border attacks along the border in the Sinai desert. The meeting caps a week that marks Morsi's international coming-out. He paid his first state visit Wednesday, to Saudi Arabia. The new president's economic plan depends largely on attracting billions in investments from the Gulf states and he presented himself as cooperative, moderate and eager to do business. Egypt's first Muslim Brotherhood-backed leader assured Riyadh he had no interest in exporting revolution. But overwhelmingly, the focus of Egypt remains squarely inward. Morsi won the election, but the extent of his powers remains as murky as a desert dust storm. That became clear this week when he picked a surprising fight with the military that some feared would bring the factions back to open confrontation in the first days of the new government. In answer to a power grab by the ruling military council on the eve of the presidential election - in which they dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament and took control of the budget - Morsi ordered the legislature back into a symbolic half-hour session Tuesday. Brotherhood and Salafi voters were delighted, massing at Cairo's Tahrir Square to hail Morsi's bold stand. Even some revolutionary youth leaders applauded the boost to Egypt's first freely elected parliament.