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Articles of the author Ayman El Amir
Constitution in the balance
Something as fundamental as a constitution for the country should be the subject of lively national debate, not the preserve of backroom deals and partisan politics, writes Ayman El-Amir The drafting of Egypt's new constitution is caught up in a (...)

04 - 10 - 2012
What future for Egypt's wealth?
US support for the Muslim Brotherhood appears to have been cemented on its leanings towards the interests of private capital. This will not serve millions of poor Egyptians, writes Ayman El-Amir The wealth of nations changes hands in times of (...)

27 - 09 - 2012
Mursi's maiden US voyage
Obama, as all incumbent presidents facing elections, may not be able to offer much to President Mursi when they first meet this month, but the latter has responsibility to tell the former that Egypt has changed, writes Ayman El-Amir Egyptian (...)

13 - 09 - 2012
Brahimi: a man for all crises 000
Veteran diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi has mediated many challenging conflicts in the past, but in trying to find a solution to the Syrian crisis he is taking on a mammoth task, writes Ayman El-Amir* With a grim warning that he was taking on a mission (...)

30 - 08 - 2012
Big Brother is still watching
The selection process for new national chief editors indicates that little fundamental has changed in efforts by those in power to control the media in Egypt, writes Ayman El-Amir Regardless of the professional merits, or de-merits, of the (...)

16 - 08 - 2012
The Arabs in transition
Finally the Arabs are responding to global winds of change. Not all, but all will in time, writes Ayman El-Amir As the Syrian revolution reaches its pinnacle, with the ouster or termination of President Bashar Al-Assad in sight, other Arab rulers (...)

02 - 08 - 2012
Tyranny of the zealots
The rise of vigilante violence in Egypt is a worrying sign as President Mursi makes rash unilateral moves, writes Ayman El-Amir It was in 66 AD that Jewish settlers of Samaria, now the West Bank, rebelled against the Roman Empire that dominated the (...)

12 - 07 - 2012
Saving the Titanic
Though Egypt now has a freely elected president, the first of the second republic, it is not yet out of the dangerous waters into which it has ventured, writes Ayman El-Amir By the power of Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the 25 January 2011 (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
The Anan peace plan
The UN observer mission in Syria is a resounding failure, not least because of the self-aggrandising brinkmanship of its head, Kofi Anan, writes Ayman El-Amir In his relentless campaign to stem the rising tide of the revolution, Syrian President (...)

21 - 06 - 2012
Revolution in chaos
Egyptians have only one last chance to save the revolution: not allowing the Constituent Assembly to be stacked by theocratic-leaning Islamists, writes Ayman El-Amir Revolutions that changed the course of history took years to mature, distil their (...)

07 - 06 - 2012
Exiting the long dialectic of dictatorship
Only by political education will the Arab world be able to avoid falling into dictatorship, whether religious, secular or any other, writes Ayman El-Amir Entrenched dictatorships die slowly and with great spasms as much as revolutions seize power in (...)

24 - 05 - 2012
The uncertainty of revolution
The Abbasiya clashes may be the clearest warning yet that Egypt has a long way to go before stability is regained, writes Ayman El-Amir* It is not unusual that revolutionary change is initially chaotic, bloody and confused. This is particularly true (...)

10 - 05 - 2012
Revolution at the crossroads
With the rapid fall from grace of some Islamists leaders, the Egyptian public is waking up to the real requirements of revolution, writes Ayman El-Amir* After more than one year of protests, demonstrations, coalitions and divisions, Egyptians have (...)

25 - 04 - 2012
Gamble on the Gulf
Israel is spoiling for a war to reassert its regional dominance. With Iran as a neighbour, it is a dangerous time for Arab Gulf states, writes Ayman El-Amir* Israel is using the United States as the cat's paw to attack Iran's nuclear facilities at (...)

12 - 04 - 2012
Constitutional showdown
The Muslim Brotherhood should back down from its efforts to control the totality of the Egyptian polity, including writing the constitution according to its whims, writes Ayman El-Amir* The struggle to build a new political order in post- revolution (...)

29 - 03 - 2012
Anan's formidable mission
Perhaps it is time for Kosovo-style humanitarian intervention in Syria, writes Ayman El-Amir Kofi Anan's mission to Syria looks more like window dressing than a real opening to resolve an intractable crisis. Clearly, the dynamics of the brutal (...)

15 - 03 - 2012
Rich man, poor man
Globally people are rising against social injustice, demanding that the rich support the poor, writes Ayman El-Amir* Social injustice has been the core issue of almost every uprising since the French Revolution. The Egyptian revolution of 25 January (...)

08 - 03 - 2012
The sick man of the Arabs
Al-Assad and his clique have to be routed out, says Ayman El-Amir* Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad has become the sick man of the Arab world, hopelessly addicted to Baathist ideology and ruthless autocracy. Like Libya's colonel Gaddafi before him, (...)

23 - 02 - 2012
Revolution on the brink
The remnants of the Mubarak regime must be rooted out once and for all, everywhere they hide and exert influence, writes Ayman El-Amir* Never since the downfall of ousted president Hosni Mubarak has Egypt been so close to the brink of chaos. After (...)

09 - 02 - 2012
Saving Egypt from itself
While it will be tempting to rule by the tyranny of the majority, Egypt's Islamists must understand that the constitution and elections are two different things, writes Ayman El-Amir* Egyptian Islamist parties led by the Muslim Brotherhood have (...)

19 - 01 - 2012
Egypt cannot be a theocracy
Despite winning the elections, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt must find balance in the relation between religion and the state, writes Ayman El-Amir The nearly-concluded parliamentary elections have infused Egypt with a feeling of national pride (...)

05 - 01 - 2012
Parallel power lust
One response has defined the reaction of all Arab regimes that have faced protest and criticism: stay in power regardless of the price, writes Ayman El-Amir* What Arab revolutions have revealed, whether those consummated in Tunisia and Egypt or (...)

16 - 06 - 2011
Resurrecting the NAM
September's UN General Assembly, where recognition of a Palestinian state looks set to be considered, is an opportunity for non-aligned states to take on the big powers, writes Ayman El-Amir* After relapsing into oblivion for more than two decades, (...)

02 - 06 - 2011
Regimes against people
People do not rise against repressive regimes in order to be martyrs; they rise because they refuse that their lives be destroyed by regimes that oppose the people, writes Ayman El-Amir* Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has called for national (...)

19 - 05 - 2011
Israel's worst fears
The strategic situation for Israel turned 180 degrees in 2011, while the full impact of the rise of Arab dignity has not yet been felt, writes Ayman El-Amir* As if the downfall of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and its implications for the (...)

05 - 05 - 2011
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