Editor’s letter: Mubarak’s mess in today’s Sinai
Our very professional Bedouin driver takes us across the desert in South Sinai. Whenever he sees a vehicle passing by smuggling subsidised fuel for the informal black market, he gets very angry. At the first read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: The real countdown to the brotherhood’s fall
A countdown to the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule started over two years ago, when they first turned against the revolution by siding with the military in manipulating the people for a yes vote read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Revolution level II: Waiting for the right spark
On the second anniversary of the military-Islamist orchestrated referendum of 19 March 2011, deliberately putting the cart in front of the horse in post-Mubarak’s state rebuilding, one should always remember that Egypt is choosing the read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Is a Turkish model what we really want?
A few days ago I had conversation with my Turkish friend, a Middle East researcher, about the Egyptian revolution and how a “Turkish model” is overrated in the eyes of Egyptians. It is often suggested read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Chapeau to Al Nour Party
In Egypt’s post-Mubarak first parliament, which lasted for a few months in 2012, it was the first time for the Salafi Islamists (primarily Al Nour Party) to have such political representation. It was very messy read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: On the interior and stability nonsense
A few months before the revolution’s spark ignited, I had two Palestinian friends working in the media visiting me in Cairo. The last time I had seen them before this was during an Arab summit read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Time for the cool sheikhs
In 2010 I was invited to a lecture by Amr Khaled, organised by Regents College in London, while I was there for some media mission. The lecture was considered very important, as it was to read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Happy revolution day, labour movements
Happy revolution day, labour movements
Read More →Editor’s letter: Worshipping and whipping on Nasser’s birth anniversary
Two days ago was the 95th anniversary of President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s birth (1918 – 1970). The man who said, “He who cannot support himself, cannot make his own decision,” in his historical attempt to read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Egyptian economy: Fixing a mud house in the rainy season
Fixing a mud house in the rainy season
Read More →Editor’s letter: Egyptian naive hopes for 2013
For some reason, towards the end of every year I feel emotionally detached from the many wishes and hopes of a happy New Year. I always wonder what difference it would make waking up the read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: On the revolutionary and fighting for square one
The revolutionary have wisely recognised that they have lost the constitution’s battle for the Muslim Brotherhood and it seems that they understand that it is only one of many still ahead. However, they keep blaming read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Tamkeen At-Tamkeen and the Islamists’ escalations
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Read More →Editor’s letter: Voting for God
On a 40 minute Metro ride from New Marg station to Saad Zaghloul, trying to avoid the traffic jams across the city caused by anti- and pro-Morsy protests, the political discussions among the passengers are read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Egypt’s political lag
Morsy with his behaviour and political tactics, is not very different from almost all other political groups in Egypt
Read More →Editor’s letter: The collective shame of a massacre
Why does commemorating the anniversary of Mohamed Mahmoud massacre hurt? It’s a simple and valid question to ask in trying to better understand the deadly violence that broke out again on the clashes’ first anniversary read the rest…
Read More →From Riga to Cairo
Latvia’s young Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, to the Egyptian youth: Self-organisation by forming political parties, interest groups and NGOs is the solution
Read More →Editor’s letter: Smells like Nazif
Going through Hesham Qandil’s plan for development until 2022 makes you feel that Ahmed Nazif, Mubarak’s prime minister currently imprisoned for corruption charges, was a genius after all. Qandil’s plan is basically jsut an Ikhwanised read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Mubarakonomics
Remember people chanting “Bread, freedom and social justice” twenty months ago? Remember how brilliant it felt summing up all what we needed in a Post-Mubarak Egypt? How does this same and exact slogan feel to read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: Beneath the Belgian chocolate crust
Beneath the Belgian chocolate crust
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