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Articles of the author Mohamed Elmenshawy
What does China want from the Arabs?
China has not played a significant role in Middle Eastern politics since the country's modernization in the middle of last century. China's role was limited to giving moral support to Arab liberation movements fighting against Western colonialism (...)

28 - 03 - 2018
A threat to US democracy
There are several pillars of US democracy, most notably civilian control of the armed forces, the sanctity of freedom of expression, the integrity of the president and not making any material profits while in office. But it looks like Trump does not (...)

11 - 01 - 2017
Trump and reviving the clash of civilizations
The political leanings of those who President elect Donald Trump picked for his national security team in the new American administration point out his intention to exploit the state of fear created by the recent election campaign amid the clear and (...)

08 - 12 - 2016
Arabs ignore US-Israel deal
A key memorandum of understanding was signed at the State Department in Washington between Israel and the US last month on the future of US military aid to Israel. The deal was mostly ignored by Arab official and media circles, without any (...)

10 - 11 - 2016
Behind the Sisi-Obama meeting
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's meeting during the United Nations General Assembly session in New York last week was the first between US President Barack Obama and an Egyptian president since a meeting with former President Hosni Mubarak in 2010. (...)

11 - 10 - 2014
Opportunities created by Israeli aggression
The recent Israeli aggression has created opportunities which Arabs should exploit if they wish to change the balance of power in their struggle against their historical enemy. Here I will outline two significant changes related to the US as well as (...)

02 - 09 - 2014
Allies against Arab resistance and democracy
An alliance in international relations means a concord or a pledge between two or more powers to reach common objectives and interests, or to confront a shared danger. Since the first signs of the Arab Spring three and half ago, an unofficial and (...)

20 - 08 - 2014
Who cares about the image in Washington?
An American friend of mine works in one of the largest public relations companies in the American capital. His company in particular obtained a Saudi-financed contract for improving the image of the new Egyptian regime headed by Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (...)

04 - 08 - 2014
Final countdown: 3 July inside the White House
The Egyptian events in the days preceding 3 July 2013 coincided with an African tour by American President Barak Obama. As he said in an afternoon news conference in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam: "We all feel concerned with what's happening (...)

14 - 07 - 2014
When will El-Sisi visit Washington?
Washington is the most important capital for Egyptian political forces. Washington, which has had reservations about what has happened in Egypt since 3 July in spite of its acceptance of the new reality. Washington, which froze military assistance (...)

16 - 06 - 2014
Where is the US ambassador to Cairo?
This absence of a US ambassador in Cairo for the last eight months could be for several reasons. First, it could be strong evidence of tension between the two countries and hesitation by the US administration on what it should do about developments (...)

21 - 04 - 2014
The Arabs smitten by the Israeli lobby
The most pessimistic Arab could never imagine the day would come when a US official would say, if “he covered the faces of top officials he met during the recent trip to Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv, and listened to their perceptions on the issues (...)

10 - 04 - 2014
Egypt, the wound in US-Saudi relations
“If we ever face such a terrible day as Kuwait did at the hands of Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 1990, we all know there are only two armies that can truly help us, including sending tens of thousands of soldiers if needed. They are the US and the (...)

11 - 03 - 2014
Memo to Obama on the future of the Brotherhood
At the start of the new year, major think tanks in the United States' capital presented key policy recommendations to the American president. One of these recommendations was a policy memothat advised President Obama on how to address the potential (...)

21 - 02 - 2014
Salafists court Washington
Shortly before leaving Cairo on a trip to the US capital, Nader Bakkar, assistant to the president of the Salafist Nour Party, told a Saudi newspaper that his party “has destroyed claims by the Muslim Brotherhood for 80 years that Islam is the (...)

01 - 02 - 2014
Egypt between the End of History and clash of civilisations
In 1989, Japanese-American academic Francis Fukuyama wrote an article entitled "The End of History" in which he argued that the age of oppression and totalitarianism irrevocably ended after the end of the Cold War and the dismantling of the Berlin (...)

29 - 12 - 2013
How does Obama think about Egypt?
In order to understand how Barack Obama and his administration think about events in Egypt one must consider how Washington defines its strategic interests in the Arab region, irrespective of who occupies the White House There is no better place to (...)

08 - 12 - 2013
The right to vote only for illiterates
The Cairo elite are making noises today to spotlight the issue of illiteracy and its link to citizens exercising their political rights. Some have said they do not object to the idea and in fact demand that illiterates should not be allowed to vote. (...)

21 - 11 - 2013
Omitted words in US-Egypt crisis
The US decision to suspend a delivery of jet fighters and tanks to Egypt made its position on Morsi's removal very clear. However, cutting off all military assistance is unlikely as it would jeopardise US relations with Egypt “Inclusive democracy” (...)

30 - 10 - 2013
The Cairo elite and the tyranny of the state
Theorists of the past defend efforts to build a new tyranny in a modern form by misusing established fundamentals under the pretext of “guarding the state” and the need to respect “the prestige of the state.” Some of these theorists of the past – (...)

05 - 10 - 2013
The need for an Egyptian Bill of Rights
More than 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, said: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Some people today want Egyptians to (...)

21 - 09 - 2013
Between Ittihadiya Palace and the White House
Despite recent turbulence in formal ties between Egypt and the US, those at Ittihadiya Palace (the headquarters of the presidency in Cairo) and the administration at the White House (the headquarters of the US presidency in Washington) have always (...)

17 - 09 - 2013
Washington and the dilemma of its three allies
US thinker Walter Russell Mead believes President Barack Obama has adopted a failed strategy in the Middle East over the past five years. Mead believes Obama's gamble and mistaken political calculations have distanced him and the US from three main (...)

11 - 09 - 2013
Egypt, democracy and the fascist triangle
Without condensing the issue of democracy in Egypt and diagnosing it as a struggle between the Islamist current and what is known as the civil current, democracy in Egypt is subject to many threats. Most notably, an alarming trinity founded on (...)

08 - 08 - 2013
Egypt without future elections
While many Egyptian intellectuals and politicians are scrambling to present various recipes for a roadmap for the future, everyone agrees on one thing: the need to “hold elections,” both parliamentary and presidential, within the next few (...)

28 - 07 - 2013
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