Albeit described by The Washington Post as “old, inarticulate, uninspiring and gaffe prone”, Joe Biden is today the likely winner of the Democratic Party nomination for the upcoming US presidential elections. According to The Financial Times, polls (...)
Central to Egypt's 2030 vision are four pillars: social justice, innovation and scientific research, economic development, and environment. In all four pillars, the focus is on a future where there is more citizen participation to face new (...)
Central to Egypt's 2030 vision are four pillars: social justice, innovation and scientific research, economic development, and environment. In all four pillars, the focus is on a future where there is more citizen participation to face new (...)
Social media networks have become a constitutive element of modern society, without which present-day democracies could neither function nor be properly understood.
Take, for instance, Facebook. This has become the most common medium of (...)
“It is the eternal dispute,” wrote 19th-century French historian Albert Sorel, “between those who imagine the world to suit their policy and those who arrange their policy to suit the realities of the world.”
Half a century later, the British (...)
“Great men are so rare that they take some getting used to.”
Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger was not alone in needing time to get used to former Egyptian president Anwar Al-Sadat.
Failing to understand his approach to foreign policy, (...)
It was Egypt's humiliation in the 1948 War that convinced former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel-Nasser of the necessity of revolution. The historical role Nasser's personality came to fulfil was to restore to the Egyptian people their dignity. This (...)