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Articles of the author Galal Amin
THOUGHTS ON EGYPT: Nothing Trickles Down
There are a few Egyptian economists who do believe that the effects of economic growth must, sooner or later, benefit all Egyptians. These are the people who congratulate the government on the recent rise in the growth rate, which has reached 7 (...)

15 - 11 - 2007
THOUGHTS ABOUT EGYPT: . But not the Egyptians!
I can think of a hundred ways of how a high rate of growth of the Egyptian economy may not bring any benefit to the majority of the citizens. I can also think of another hundred ways of how it may actually coincide with a fall in their standard of (...)

08 - 11 - 2007
THOUGHTS ON EGYPT: Religion (1)
I was already 17 when the 1952 Revolution took place so I am in a position to compare the role played by religion in the life of Egyptians before the revolution with the role religion plays today. The story is a rather sad one but it has to be told, (...)

24 - 10 - 2007
From Suez... to Baghdad
Galal Amin* charts the course of history from the Canal nationalisation of 1956 to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and reveals some startling similarities I was 21 when Nasser announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company and I still remember, (...)

01 - 11 - 2006
Memories of a revolution
Having turned 70, Galal Amin* understands his father's equivocal reception of the events of 1952 When it comes to pan-Arabism and Arab unity the gap between my generation and that of my children could not be wider. My generation developed gushing (...)

10 - 08 - 2006
Ferryboats and cartoons
Two tragedies underline that justice and redress are rarely attained against the powerful, writes Galal Amin* Within the span of one week, two terrible things happened, seemingly unrelated. Yet there was a connection, a shared and hidden meaning. In (...)

16 - 03 - 2006
Sixteen points on terrorism
The generally accepted narrative of global Arab and Muslim terrorism just doesn't add up, writes Galal Amin* All the incidents that have occurred in recent years and have been named terrorist acts, from the attacks on New York and Washington through (...)

08 - 09 - 2005
Two agendas for reform
Assistance from the outside is incidental, even detrimental, if the overall framework of reform is not driven by domestic developmental considerations, writes Galal Amin* It is about three years since the call for "reform" began to occupy such a (...)

07 - 04 - 2005
Great expectations
And then the dam broke, writes Galal Amin* Fifty years ago the world saw the rise of a new phenomenon. It kept economists busy, inspired politicians and sent sociologists rushing to revise their theories. The newspapers reported it, publishers (...)

23 - 12 - 2004
Colonial echoes
It is almost too easy to reveal what really lies behind the Greater Middle East Initiative, writes Galal Amin* A few lines into the text of the Greater Middle East Initiative one is gripped with puzzlement. The initiative tops the agenda of the G8 (...)

01 - 04 - 2004
The middle way
Middle Egypt is a curious mix of the secular and the sacred, the new and the old, the foreign and the local, writes Galal Amin* The idea leapt to my mind as I was walking around in last January's Cairo International Book Fair. I looked at the (...)

12 - 02 - 2004
Do you call this capitalism?
Capitalism is advancing as it sheds its classical skin. Marxist predictions have been fulfilled -- at least in part, says Galal Amin* A century and a half ago, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels predicted the fall of capitalism. The capitalist system (...)

28 - 08 - 2003
First-class manipulation
Spin doctors have turned around the Blair government. Their success in doing so is cause for alarm, writes Galal Amin It was interesting, if disconcerting, to follow the debate taking place in Britain recently as the media began to question whether (...)

17 - 07 - 2003
Analyse that
US officials claim they want to reform Iraq's school system. Galal Amin* questions their motives No sooner had the Americans occupied Iraq, than US officials intimated their intention to change the country's educational curricula. Schoolbooks are to (...)

03 - 07 - 2003
Whose truth?
The war against Iraq was not just fought in harbours, roads, and city streets, but on the airwaves. And truth was the victim, writes Galal Amin Since 11 September 2001, I have observed with alarm that many people have taken at face value what the (...)

24 - 04 - 2003
Music to Western ears
The first ever UNDP report on human development in the Arab region lamented the lack of freedom and scientific research in this part of the world. Galal Amin* questions the findings The recent report published by the United Nations Development (...)

01 - 08 - 2002
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