The strength of the earthquake that created the Arab revolutions stems from the sufferings of the Arab nation and will not stop so long as those sufferings continue. Therefore we think that democracy or democratic rights in Arab countries are not (...)
On 10 February 2011, in our article “Egypt: Only Democracy is Legitimate,” we tried to seize the characteristics of the then ongoing revolution. Now, a parliament with legislative powers has begun its work. This is the first step for democracy, (...)
As a foreigner living in Egypt, and because of my political experience starting 55 years ago against the Baghdad Pact and in support of the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, I observe, endureand write articles on the Egyptian revolution and (...)
I am not astonished by the results of the elections in Egypt.If we take into account the Egyptian and regional situation and the role of Islamists as a factor of change in it,in addition to the general tendency of the Arab Spring of democracy in (...)
Many may wonder on the sharp division among some Arab intellectuals, between those who support the Arab regime dictatorships, especially the republican ones, and those who support not only pro-Western regimes, especially the kingdoms, but also (...)
The revolution in Egypt -- and all Arab countries -- will succeed if it avoids ideological division and mobilises the people to build a civil and democratic welfare state, write Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Hana Al Bayaty and Ian Douglas
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It is “le temps des cerises.”* Since Mohamed Bouazizi's tragic death in Tunisia, the same mechanism of popular uprisings has sparked to life across the Arab world, without exception, with all its pain and hope. The people use the same slogans (...)
We said on 18 January in our article “The Arab Spring of Democracy” that all Arab states share the same characteristics, and from this deduction that the same conditions will produce the same results. On 25 January, following the Tunisian (...)
Beautiful are the rivers of people in the streets of Egypt. The Arab Spring of democracy has already brought to flower new practices of liberty in public space. The heroic, resolute, peaceful youth has offered more than 300 martyrs from among their (...)
The Tunisian uprising is nothing but the natural result of the failure of the globalisation model and the impasse affecting the entire world. Indeed, as soon as an economy opens up to foreign capital and one gives the local economy and services over (...)
The United States in Iraq is confronted by the force of a geopolitical society united for thousands of years, write Abdul Ilah Albayaty and Hana Al Bayaty
Resistance in Iraq is reported to be growing in size and spreading in its capacity to operate (...)