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Articles of the author Bassem Hassan
Chickens come home to roost
It has been a busy two weeks for the cells of the Islamic State (IS) group. On 31 October, a Russian passenger plane crashed shortly after taking off from Sharm El-Sheikh on its way to St. Petersburg. Soon after, IS claimed responsibility for (...)

17 - 11 - 2015
Humanitarian masks, imperialist intent
The reaction of the United States and its allies to Russian air strikes on the strongholds of several jihadist groups in Syria should not be brushed aside as simply hypocritical. Make no mistake, they are indeed irked. Taking into consideration the (...)

20 - 10 - 2015
New historic turn?
Last week witnessed a spike in weather temperatures that took a toll on Egyptians, especially the majority that neither enjoys the privilege of living in an air conditioned home nor has the financial resources necessary to travel to a coastal resort (...)

25 - 06 - 2013
Odd bedfellows
The United States and the Muslim Brotherhood are not as far apart as they can sometimes seem, writes Bassem Hassan The Egyptian presidential race kept many people on their toes in anticipation of the changes it would bring, among others things to (...)

06 - 09 - 2012
Mubarak and 'Mubarakism'
The concentration on individuals rather than on policy orientations in the presidential elections means that Egyptian voters, having removed Mubarak, are in danger of legitimising Mubarakism, writes Bassem Hassan The first presidential elections of (...)

07 - 06 - 2012
De-Zionising Israel
Stability and peace in the Middle East are unattainable without first deconstructing the settler-colonial attitude upon which Israel is founded, writes Bassem Hassan* Recent plans by the Israeli government and the Knesset to amend existing laws (...)

11 - 11 - 2010
Not Obama's year
Disappointment followed high hopes -- especially among the Arabs -- after the promise of change of the new US president foundered in 2009, writes Bassem Hassan* Many pundits are probably poised to consider Barack Obama the 2009 person of the year. (...)

17 - 12 - 2009
Failure of judgement
The reputation of the European Court of Human Rights is looking tarnished, writes Bassem Hassan* The Israeli occupation has received a boost from an unexpected quarter, the European Court of Human Rights. Since it was established in the late 1950s (...)

20 - 08 - 2009
Echoes from the past
Obama espoused too much continuity with past US administrations for Bassem Hassan* 's tastes Obama Day, as one of my students called last Thursday, was no ordinary day in Cairo. Almost everything was different. The city, which had just received a (...)

11 - 06 - 2009
What's next?
Victory secured, Obama has a lot of work ahead to translate his stirring rhetoric into concrete policy, writes Bassem Hassan* Now that the once unthinkable idea of a black man occupying the Oval Office is only two months away from becoming a (...)

13 - 11 - 2008
Back to the future
Countering the Israeli lobby requires a new strategy, argues Bassem Ahmed Hassan* The recent announcement by the leaders of the Lakota nation that they were terminating their treaties signed with the United States government, accusing it of blatant (...)

10 - 01 - 2008
Beyond dichotomies
Egyptian foreign policy is mired in an outdated mindset, as are its critiques, argues Bassem Ahmed Hassan* Lamenting Egypt's declining influence over regional politics has become a commonplace in newspaper commentaries as well as TV stations, (...)

01 - 02 - 2007
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