Political and academic discourse dealing with the phenomena of extremism and radical Islamism in the Arab world, Afghanistan and other areas where Islamist groups are widespread forgets the historical roots of the political employment of Islam (...)
Al-Sayed Yassin, mentor and inspirer of generations of researchers and academics in Egypt and across the Arab world, passed away on Sunday at the age of 84.
He is known by many honorary sobriquets, any one of which can be used without hyperbole to (...)
Gamal Al-Ghitany, the Arab world's leading novelist, is a unique personality. His own life is like an exciting novel about love and the struggle with life and surmounting hardship and about courage, patience, persistence, stubbornness, intelligence, (...)
Can we speak of a future for the so-called process or processes of democratic transformation in Egypt after a man with a military background has succeeded in becoming the country's new president? The following are ten reasons why I open this article (...)
The question of the connection between the youth movement and the Arab future tends more to inspire abstract contemplation than down-to-earth research and field studies with the aim of amassing bodies of empirical evidence necessary for realistic (...)
There is a dense thicket of metaphors that need to be negotiated before we can find a way to analyse the developments that have taken place in the Arab world during the recent sociopolitical movements and revolutionary uprisings. Derived from an (...)
The conflict over the new Egyptian constitution is one of the most salient manifestations of the current political and religious divides in Egyptian society. It is another face of the conflict over the state. Is this state to be theocratic or (...)
Careful organisation within a climate of political discontent explains the remarkable successes of political Islam, writes Nabil Abdel-Fattah*
That the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) won 88 seats -- nearly a quarter of the total in parliament -- in the (...)
Egypt has failed to take a holistic approach to security and terrorism, standing blind before the social and behavioural roots of radical Islam, writes Nabil Abdel-Fattah*
Following terrorist attacks the same questions often surface. What were the (...)
Nabil Abdel-Fattah* explores the dynamics that led to the killing of an ambassador and the bombings in London, and which continue to haunt the future
The London bombings and wave of kidnappings, assault and murder against Arab and Muslim diplomats (...)
Modern forms of communication are changing the political landscape in unforeseen ways, argues Nabil Abdel-Fattah*
Globalisation and the continually changing scene of modern communication are shaking the established patterns of politics in the world, (...)