Ten years have passed since the outbreak of the revolutionary experiments known as the Arab Spring. If the political uprisings met with varying degrees of success or failure, the waves of turmoil they gave rise to have raised many questions (...)
Every revolution has its own energy, capacity and political project. The communist revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries, for example, were revolutions that sought to overturn existing orders and tear down the state because, quite simply, they (...)
Strong Egypt Party Chairman Mohamed Abul-Fotouh, a former senior official in the Muslim Brotherhood and former candidate in the 2012 presidential elections, has recently proposed an initiative that he has described as “a vision” for emerging from (...)
If they are to end the occupation and build a sovereign state, the Palestinians need to engage diverse means of resistance, such as campaigns of civil disobedience and popular uprisings, rather than just armed resistance.
Hamas has grown accustomed (...)
Some, in Egypt, are calling for the downfall of the Egyptian state, others for its perpetuation unaltered. Then there are those who see gradual reform as a fundamental condition for progress. There is also a fourth category of opinion, motivated by (...)
Few would take issue with the fact that soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces are fully competent citizens who, in a democratic country, should have the right to vote, albeit without the right to actively affiliate with a political party or (...)
The fault is not so much with the prosecutor, concludes Amr Al-Shobaki
The curtain has closed on the affair of the prosecutor-general who defied a presidential decree to usher him out of his post by appointing him as ambassador to the Vatican. (...)