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Articles of the author Nader Fergani
Building a knowledge society in Egypt
Some readers who commented on my political articles asked me to refocus my attention from ongoing political quarrels to look at creating a renaissance in Egypt. It is a topic that is close to my heart and writing. In this article I will heed these (...)

04 - 02 - 2014
Egypt: The government of protests by permit
It's an odd thing about the interim government, and I don't just mean Beblawi's cabinet. It is unfair to blame the cabinet and prime minister, despite their appalling performance and lack of revolutionary drive. The interim president and now the (...)

13 - 12 - 2013
Encroaching on freedom and creativity destroys the future
The progress of humanity is based on freedom and creativity. Any society or regime that encroaches on one of them is doomed to backwardness and recession. What about those who infringe on both? This article is neither in solidarity with nor against (...)

30 - 11 - 2013
Why is the government not laying down the foundations for social justice?
Higher living standards and social justice — top priorities of the revolution of the people — should be based on both minimum and maximum earnings, and a reasonable ratio between the two Finally, after several months in office, Egypt's interim (...)

16 - 11 - 2013
No reconciliation; prosecute them and cure them
Mediation between the Brotherhood and the interim regime in this second transitional phase has become a huge construct and a popular trade for those who have nothing better to do, and are unrelated to the issue. I understand that some have good (...)

23 - 10 - 2013
For a constitution worthy of the revolution
The rule of the so-called Islamist right twice ruined the transition to proper democratic rule for the people of Egypt during the first transitional period. First, by insisting on holding parliamentary and presidential elections before writing a (...)

19 - 09 - 2013
Egypt's revolution must support Syria and Palestine
There is a historic agenda after the momentous second wave of Egypt's revolution that rose up against the rule of corruption and tyranny in January 2011, and once again in June/July 2013 against the so-called Islamist right when Egyptians called on (...)

28 - 08 - 2013
How to avoid botching the second transitional phase
It appears that the second transitional phase – which began after 30 June – is already beginning to stumble, threatening to intensify civil strife in Egypt and push the nation to the edge of a destructive civil war. As expected in complex historic (...)

05 - 08 - 2013
Class and the revolution
As pressure by the masses mounts for early presidential elections that give the final word to the people — the sole source of sovereignty and master of all powers — voices from the “Islamic” right are warning against the repercussions of this (...)

23 - 06 - 2013
Gridlock continues
Contrary to the president's promise, the constitution was written without consensus and at suspicious speed, followed by a referendum subjected to religious intimidation, manipulation and bribery that is customary for this current. The constitution, (...)

13 - 02 - 2013
Two years of gridlock and the possibility of worse
The second anniversary of the great people's revolution saw no serious signs of effective action to reach the goals of the revolution in terms of freedom, justice and human dignity. There has been no retribution for the martyrs and wounded of the (...)

05 - 02 - 2013
Egypt's plummeting pound quickens government demise
History tells of many regimes that fell after the collapse of their national currency and hyperinflation, which is usually connected to it, especially in Latin America. There, shops would sometimes stop writing down the price of merchandise because (...)

14 - 01 - 2013
Islamists and the threat of Egypt's partition
If you think about the slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood, you realise the fallacy of it being a peaceful organisation. Out of the Quran, the group chose “And prepare” as their slogan, which is the first two words in the following verse: “And prepare (...)

26 - 12 - 2012
Riding Egypt's revolutionary wave
Like the ebb and flow of the tide on the shore, one revolutionary wave can fail but this does not detract from the ability of the people to revolt again. The preliminary success of a revolution can result in a feeling of impasse and mollification (...)

13 - 12 - 2012
Social justice and the draft constitution
The political economic system that the revolution rose up against was not successfully eliminated because it is built on an alliance between political despotism and unreserved capitalism, monopoly and association. This has resulted in a marriage (...)

29 - 11 - 2012
The angst of writing Egypt's new constitution
The constitution is the ultimate legal document that will be the foundation, along with the laws based on it, for Egypt to either move forward to install proper democratic rule or regress to tyranny wrapped in the cloak of superficial (...)

13 - 11 - 2012
The anxieties of Egyptian citizens under authoritarian rule
Barbaric capitalism together with continuing traffic jams, budget deficits, borrowing from abroad and the present regime's servile stance on Israel are some of the worries of Egyptian citizens today I was invited on a satellite channel to discuss (...)

04 - 11 - 2012
Egypt: While injustice continues, so will protests
The real trigger of popular protest movements and their escalation is widespread injustice and the failure of mechanisms in place to alleviate injustice. This causes people to resort to a legitimate form of expression about their grievances about (...)

30 - 09 - 2012
The dangers of coarse, heavy-handed preaching
In an attempt to reassure Egyptians about rights and freedoms amid the rise of political Islam on the political scene in Egypt and other countries that have been liberated in the Arab world, especially Tunisia, the sages of this current have (...)

11 - 09 - 2012
The historic Arab trade-off: Knowledge for oil
If Arabs want to recover from this current historic slump, there is no other way but to adoptthe goal of integrated Arab development by buildingtheir capability of knowledge acquisition. In other words, Arabs must recover through exchanging oil and (...)

28 - 07 - 2012
Rent appropriation and its consequences in Arab countries
One of the main features of the preference for money over knowledge in Arab societies is the spread ofrent appropriation in the region. Rentessentially means profit, financial or otherwise, derived from monopolising a material or symbolic asset. (...)

24 - 07 - 2012
Knowledge and the Arab world
The days of measuring a nation's wealth by its natural resources are gone for good. Soon it will also be obsolete to measure progress based on accumulated financial capital, since knowledge – especially the production of knowledge – is becoming the (...)

15 - 07 - 2012
Remembering Messeiry: One man's greatness & the malice of autocracy
Four years ago, writer and thinker Abdel-Wahhab El-Messeiry, one of Egypt's leading lights, died at the age of 70. The anniversary of his passing should have been marked in a manner befitting his formidable contributions This article recalls what I (...)

09 - 07 - 2012
Causes of bad governance in the transitional period
Why did the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) rule Egypt during the transitional period in such tragic fashion, leading to such a bitter harvest? In view of the deliberate murkiness and lack of transparency that characterised the rule of (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
The future of the revolution under incumbent powers
We are worried that political Islamist forces believe democracy — which they boast about practicing —to be a battle of numbers whereby greater numbers trump courage, wisdom, the principles of democracy themselves, and even protecting public (...)

13 - 05 - 2012
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