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Articles of the author Mohamed Hassanein Heikal
Obituary: Mohamed Hassanein Heikal
, the guru of Egyptian and Arab journalism and the ultimate inside storyteller of key political events in Egypt and across the region after World War II, passed away today at the age of 93 after a short illness that ended a momentous career and a (...)

17 - 02 - 2016
Heikal speaks to Al-Ahram on the necessity of action
In the third and final part of his interview with Al-Ahram, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal discusses prosecuting the symbols of the former regime, soft revolution, and his opinion of current presidential candidates Regarding the trials of the symbols of (...)

19 - 05 - 2011
On the sectarian crisis and other matters
This crisis needs to be handled with the fullest integrity because it goes beyond sectarian strife. It is true that there is a sectarian element to the crisis, rooted in causes which we have long neglected coming to grips with, just as we (...)

11 - 05 - 2011
A moment of revelation
Mohamed Hassanein Heikal tells Al-Ahram Weekly how decades after nationalising the Canal and going to war over it, Egyptians have finally re-appropriated Suez "The truth about Suez was always available but for many years it was ignored, hidden, (...)

01 - 11 - 2006
A fearful future
Mohamed Hassanein Heikal selected his 12 most decisive moments of the past 12 months during a talk on Al-Jazeera, broadcast on New Year's Eve. Below we present an abridged version of the selection I think my first decisive moment occurred, (...)

06 - 01 - 2005
The enduring winter of our discontent
Over ten weekly programmes -- broadcast on Al-Jazeera from 7 July to 9 September -- Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, the Arab world's most celebrated commentator and political analyst, took incisive stock of a new, tumultuous stage in Arab history. Below (...)

30 - 09 - 2004
Lessons unlearned
By Mohamed Hassanein Heikal As I followed recent Security Council meetings, another, much earlier, meeting kept springing to mind. It lasted three hours and took place in May 1967 on Egypt's Mediterranean coast at El-Alamein. Its protagonist was (...)

20 - 03 - 2003
The perils of supremacy
In a wide-ranging address delivered on Tuesday 13 March at the opening ceremony of the American University in Cairo's 13th International Model United Nations conference, renowned political analyst Mohamed Hassanein Heikal presented a simple, yet (...)

15 - 03 - 2001
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