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Articles of the author Emad El Din Aysha
Egypt and China, a Bridge Not Too Far: Taha Hussein or Henry Kissinger?
A very distinguished Chinese academic, Dr. Wang Jisi, just gave a talk at the American University in Cairo on China's understanding of the international order (Tahrir Dialogue No. 64 – "Listening to and Looking Towards Asia", Tahrir Campus, March (...)

02 - 04 - 2017
Egypt's annual urban consumer inflation declined to 9.1% in February
There was a reduction in Egypt's annual urban consumer inflation for the second consecutive month to 9.1% in February from 10.1% in January, according to the Centre of Statistics and Mobilisation (CAPMAS). Egypt's government, which is struggling to (...)

10 - 03 - 2016
The history award goes to... the blank slate!
Egypt won three awards last week at the Dubai film festival and thank heavens it was not for those two annoyingly-titled movies that were showcased at the (bungled) Cairo International Film Festival. As luck would have it, I watched the trailer for (...)

23 - 12 - 2015
The strategic plane: Russia in the Mideast energy cauldron
A journalist friend had told me a while ago, without naming who or when, that Russia was ready for a major strategic entrance into the region through its air campaign in Syria, compensating for all those years of being muscled out of the region with (...)

20 - 12 - 2015
The baby and the bathwater: Putting history on the map
I watched an offensive diatribe the other day on a private sector satellite channel – typically – that shed considerable doubt on certain religious and historical tenants. As luck would have it, I had an intellectual run-in with the guest on the (...)

06 - 12 - 2015
Black Mess: Gangsters, bombers, and alliance politics
You may be wondering what gangster thriller "Black Mass" (2015) about James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp) has to do with our neck of the woods but you will be surprised to know. I say this because the movie is supremely political, having little to (...)

30 - 11 - 2015
Free-floating solutions: Unleashing the indigenous imagination
I got into a discussion with some American friends following an Edward Said Memorial Lecture I'd forgot to invite them to. I'd forgot about it myself, inexcusably given the speaker – Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor of Anthropology, Women's and Gender (...)

03 - 11 - 2015
Geopolitical mishaps: Reading Orwell to the right
I read an offensive article the other day that is worth contemplating, for our own peace of mind and the physical security of our lands. A former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden gave a TV interview at one time where he revealed one good thing (...)

13 - 10 - 2015
Prophecies come true: When there's nowhere to hide from culture
A stunning opera show was held on Egyptian TV on the birth of Islam last week, with beautiful music and a spectacular light show, superb direction, acting and great lighting and costumes. This was done for the October War celebrations; however it (...)

12 - 10 - 2015
Blast from the past: Iraq, division or détente?
Lebanese President Camille Chamoun once stated in his memoirs, at the height of his country's civil war, that he did not fear Lebanon would fracture into several independent states. His real worry, though, was if Iraq fell apart. That would doom the (...)

29 - 06 - 2015
Layers of conflict: Syria between history and geology
Things just keep getting worse in Syria. The Sunni Jabhat Al-Nusra recently killed 23 Druze clan members in Idlib in an apparently unsanctioned raid. This, as James M. Dorsey warns, could drag in the Israelis as self-styled protectors of the Druze. (...)

21 - 06 - 2015
The Brezhnev Option: How to dissolve ‘Islamic State'
Steve Jobs said that creativity was connecting things. Here are two connections that will help us creatively destroy "Islamic State" (IS). First, an old talk by Bertrand Badie at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on 31 October 2001, entitled (...)

13 - 06 - 2015
Kids who never grow up!
I narrowly missed Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and I'm a Charlize Theron fan, so it was a treat to watch her previous movie Young Adult (2011). It's a female version of Just Friends (2005), about a 'young adult' fiction writer, Mavis Gary, who (...)

19 - 09 - 2012
Uprooting terrorism at its Source Code!
CAIRO - Once again there isn't much to write about so I'm relying on summertime releases to share enlightening insights into the cinematic world, in this case the film Source Code (2011). It's not the easiest movie to digest, given that it's about (...)

07 - 10 - 2011
Opinion: Populating the Arab mind!
CAIRO – Was having another conversation with a colleague of mine, who made an astute anthropological observation; namely, that Egyptians simply refuse to make a connection between having too many children and the country's impoverishment! One could (...)

19 - 07 - 2011
What the Turks have!
I thought I'd try something different this week with all the endless prattle about the French. And since some of the French are as worried about Turkey as Iran, why not talk about the Turks? What is it they've got that we haven't? I attended a (...)

24 - 08 - 2010
The totem-symbol of terrorism
A while back I had quizzed the author of a best-seller in the US by the name of Kyle Mills. I'd just read his spy novel Sphere of Influence, about Al-Qaeda, where he predicted how Al-Qaeda reformatted itself into a cost-efficient, decentralized (...)

28 - 07 - 2008
Egypt's (hidden) economic mindset
A while ago I was watching "Rome , a TV series about ancient Rome at the time of Julius Caesar, and was struck by this scene: At a dinner, the newly appointed Senator Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and his wife Niobe (Indira Varma) are telling their (...)

25 - 06 - 2008
The suicide cult - transposed
The West should have nothing on us because many of our afflictions seem to be popping up there too. I speak of the 'suicide cult'. On June 5 www.wsws.org reported that police and social workers were baffled by the suicide of 19 teenagers who were (...)

11 - 06 - 2008
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