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Articles of the author Ahmed Naguib Roushdy
Time to amend Egypt's treaty with Israel
As is well-known, when the ceasefire between Egypt and Israel went into effect in June 1967, Israel was occupying the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and continued its occupation until the second disengagement agreement that followed the 1973 war, cemented (...)

27 - 07 - 2016
The pen as a source of education in Islam
No one can deny that Islam has been at a crossroads for a while, imperiled by the activities of militant groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other Islamic extremists who have resorted to mass killings of Muslims and (...)

31 - 12 - 2014
Religious intolerance imperils Islam
Once upon a time Iraq was a united country, largely by the efforts of Gertrude Bell, a British diplomat and spy, after World War I. She brought Iraqis together in order to bring stability and allow her country to siphon the abundance of Iraqi oil. (...)

29 - 10 - 2014
Will Iraq be divided?
International and local media has been flooded with news about bloody sectarian violence in Iraq between the Sunni minority and the Shia majority. The Sunnis have been fighting the Shiites over the latter's atrocities against them. The Sunnis have (...)

16 - 07 - 2014
A tale of three revolutions
During the 20th and 21st century, Egypt underwent three revolutions: the 1919 Revolution, which was against the British occupation of Egypt, and the Tahrir Square revolution that took off on 25 January 2011, and that of 30 June two and a half years (...)

21 - 05 - 2014
Sorry, friends, we are not trying to snoop
Local media recently published news reports that previously appeared in American and German media weeks before, that the National Security Agency (NSA), the main US spying agency, was eavesdropping on and monitoring the phone calls and e-mails of (...)

13 - 11 - 2013
How Putin saved Obama
It is now common knowledge that Russian President Vladimir Putin, of all people, gave US President Barack Obama the chance to save his face, and, if not to avoid impeachment by the US senate, at least the chance to vindicate his award of the Nobel (...)

09 - 10 - 2013
The path to real democracy
In the last paragraph of my last article in Al-Ahram Weekly, I concluded that the Egyptian government would not be able to transfer the country to a real democracy and to improve the economy unless the state of chaos ended and the people felt more (...)

25 - 09 - 2013
The US needs Egypt
The long-awaited crackdown by the Egyptian military-led government on the Muslim Brotherhood, welcomed by millions of frustrated Egyptians, has put the US Obama administration into an unusually awkward position, probably unprecedented with regard to (...)

20 - 08 - 2013
What if change happens?
If the Egyptian revolutionaries succeed in forcing President Mohamed Morsi and his Brotherhood-led government out of office or if he resigns to save face, will this mean the end of Islam as the religion of the state and the end of the Sharia as the (...)

12 - 06 - 2013
Where now for Egypt?
Let us say that you are one of the poor millions of Egyptians that have been frustrated about the atrocities against demonstrators, the sexual abuse of women, the assault on human rights, the state of lawlessness in the country and the deterioration (...)

08 - 05 - 2013
Repent and repair
When I mentioned in my last article in Al-Ahram Weekly on 9 March that the new Egyptian constitution provided in Article 2 that the principles of Islamic Sharia were the main source of legislation, and that might cause a debacle for the Egyptian (...)

03 - 04 - 2013
The codification of Sharia
Many observers thought that the enactment of Egypt's new constitution and the setting of a date for the election of the new parliament would mark the start of a new life for the country. But, alas this does not seem to be the case. I am not (...)

05 - 03 - 2013
Us against us
Egypt is once again in agony and may continue so. We are back to 25 January 2011, a new round for the Egyptians to struggle for their freedom and human rights. This time they are demonstrating against a theocratic non-military ruler who won the (...)

03 - 01 - 2013
A Palestinian state in Sinai?
Rumours of a future Palestinian state in Sinai should be firmly quashed by the Egyptian government, writes Ahmad Naguib Roushdy Rumour has it, and some articles in Egyptian newspapers have stated, that the increasing crossings of Palestinians to the (...)

11 - 10 - 2012
Are Arab Jews refugees?
Rumours of a future Palestinian state in Sinai should be firmly quashed by the Egyptian government, writes Ahmad Naguib Roushdy Rumour has it, and some articles in Egyptian newspapers have stated, that the increasing crossings of Palestinians to the (...)

11 - 10 - 2012
Will Egypt attain real democracy?
The path to real democracy is respect for law, and this starts from the top, writes Ahmad Naguib Roushdy When the Egyptian youth spoke the unspeakable and revolted on 25 January 2011 against former president Hosni Mubarak, their goal was not only to (...)

25 - 07 - 2012
The revolution is at stake
Having carried out blitz-like actions to consolidate its position, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces should now surrender power to the new president, writes Ahmad Naguib Roushdy It is common for writers and observers to be filled with (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
The awakening must continue
What lessons do earlier revolutions hold for Egypt's revolution, asks Ahmad Naguib Roushdy* Although the 25 January Revolution caught the world by surprise and became an example for the Arab Spring, the occupiers of Wall Street, and British, Italian (...)

25 - 04 - 2012
Is the revolution in danger?
Mubarak has been removed and put on trial, but more needs to be done to cleanse the country of his regime, says Ahmad Naguib Roushdy* Now that Egypt has celebrated the first anniversary of the 25 January 2011 Tahrir Square Revolution and the (...)

15 - 03 - 2012
The Islamist groups and the economic system
The Islamist groups' understanding of economics and modern finance is fundamentally flawed from a religious point of view and may imperil Egypt's future, writes Ahmad Naguib Roushdy* Now that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has (...)

03 - 11 - 2011
Will the real Salafi please raise his hand?
Religious extremists, whether Christian or Muslim, are deviating from true religious principles and threatening violence and possible war, writes Ahmad Naguib Roushdy* Fear and loathing of Islam caused more than 92 people to be massacred on 23 July (...)

08 - 09 - 2011
Islamist threats to democracy
If Islamist groups triumph in Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections, they will play havoc with the goals of the revolution, says Ahmad Naguib Roushdy For more than five months since the January Revolution, Egyptians have had to shoulder the (...)

14 - 07 - 2011
On the path to another revolution
It may be difficult for Egypt's military to return to the role it played before the 1952 Revolution, but it is its duty to do so, writes Ahmad Naguib Roushdy* I was not surprised when I read in the New York Times on 17 and 19 July that the ruling (...)

28 - 06 - 2011
The bumpy path of revolution
The opposite of a police state is freedom and democracy for all. It is the only way forward, but getting it right may take practice, writes Ahmed Naguib Roushdy* As everyone knows, Tahrir Square became a tourist site commemorating the Egyptian (...)

21 - 04 - 2011
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