What are the strengths and weaknesses of the hegemonic state group?
I have mentioned before that the political life in Egypt can be divided in many ways. In an attempt to analyse the political map, I divided it into three major movements: the political Islamist group, read the rest…
Read More →What does Egypt’s political map look like today?
Several months before the elections for Egypt’s House of Representatives, scheduled to take place this coming October, many Egyptians are asking: what is the plan of those political parties participating in these elections? Some ask read the rest…
Read More →What does the future hold for Egypt?
Sunday night, during a late night call to the “Al-Hafez” television channel, I took part in a discussion with a prominent Egyptian political analyst regarding the country’s rampant political polarisation. For those who don’t know, read the rest…
Read More →What tactics are set to be employed by Egypt’s various political movements?
It should be clear, as pointed out in several of my previous articles, that Egypt’s political circuit consists of three primary forces. The first of these is the country’s Islamist movement, made up primarily of read the rest…
Read More →In other words: Who is the alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood?
Before answering this question, ask yourself: Has the Muslim Brotherhood succeeded in running the country? I ask this as someone who considers himself relatively involved in the country’s political circuit, who does not seek to read the rest…
Read More →Is there no other alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood?
It has been repeated many times in recent months that there exists no alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood in terms of selecting a group capable and organised enough to rule Egypt. Other organisations, it has read the rest…
Read More →Has the Muslim Brotherhood adopted Sectarianism?
I have attempted over the last several articles, to shed light on the fault lines of the various political and socio-economic divisions that exist within Egyptian society, in addition to the ideologies of those who read the rest…
Read More →What do we do about those caught between the corrupt and the hopeless?
After viewing the results of Egypt’s last parliamentary elections, we can safely say that they were not only contested by political parties, but also those who advocated for competing attitudes and views about the state read the rest…
Read More →Where does the Army stand in the struggle between those with money and those with power?
As we are aware, Egypt’s political scene is divided along many fault-lines and fraught with a number of conflicting internal struggles, particularly those which have to do with the identity of our nation-state. These struggles read the rest…
Read More →Has the army truly withdrawn from Egyptian politics?
I recently claimed in a previous article, to all those who were interested in the progress of political dialogue within Egypt, that the country’s military would “not seek to return and inject itself back into read the rest…
Read More →Will the army administer our country once again?
It’s no secret that some in Egypt who seek to bring the army back into power have once again descended onto the nation’s streets, not for the purpose of restoring peace and security as some read the rest…
Read More →On the youth and the revolution
For many, the early days of the revolution served as a political coming-out for a number of underground organisations, some weak, others strong, and individuals, all out to prove their revolutionary worth and zeal. Hailing read the rest…
Read More →Is Boycotting the Solution?
There currently exists within Egypt’s democratic forces a raging debate as to whether or not to take part in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Those who advocate for boycotting the elections do so for a number read the rest…
Read More →Are we in a “…….” or just smelling the roses?
This question is often repeated during times of crisis. When a nation finds itself consumed by war or strife, inevitably some will decide to remove themselves from the equation and occupy their time with trivial read the rest…
Read More →When will Middle Easterners stop seeking to export their image?
Despite the fact that the countries of the Middle East are not currently consumed by war, and that there exists at best a cold peace, or a rather muffled sense of competition between them, it read the rest…
Read More →Six pieces, looking for an author
Far from violence, clashes and clouds of tear gas, from press releases and accusations, we are called to escape the chaos of our country and pick up the scattered pieces that once formed a picture read the rest…
Read More →Why should the young man move?
In the early days of the revolution, and since then over the last two years, my gaze has often been focused on the young Egyptian who has repeatedly climbed the lamp-posts of Tahrir Square in read the rest…
Read More →“What can we do for you?” or “what can we do together?”
Several days ago the first Social Democratic Forum of Social Democratic Parties in the Arab world was held in Cairo, organised with the support of a number of European parties and groups. To me the read the rest…
Read More →Has the United States succeeded in taking over the world?
Much of the chaos and confusion that grips today’s world may in fact have been planned and orchestrated by the US
Read More →Have Islamic bonds paved the way for the establishment of a religious state?
Egypt has gradually been trying to come out from under the cloak of theocracy for many years now, the first attempt beginning after the start of the French occupation of Egypt. Towards the beginning of read the rest…
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