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Articles of the author Omar Ashour
What do Egypt's generals want?
CAIRO: “Whatever the majority in the People's Assembly, they are very welcome, because they won't have the ability to impose anything that the people don't want.” Thus declared General Mukhtar Al-Mulla, a member of Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of (...)

01 - 02 - 2012
Egypt's Salafi challenge
CAIRO: “We want democracy, but one constrained by God's laws. Ruling without God's laws is infidelity,” Yasser Burhami, the second leading figure in the Salafi Call Society (SCS) and its most charismatic leader, recently said. The unexpected rise of (...)

03 - 01 - 2012
Egypt's headless revolution
CAIRO: “The man who taught me to sacrifice my heart for Egypt is dead,” said Vivian Magdi, mourning her fiancé. Michael Mosad was killed in the Maspiro area on October 9, when an armored vehicle hit him during a protest called to condemn an attack (...)

22 - 11 - 2011
From 9/11 to the Arab Spring
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda's operating environment today is vastly different from the one in which it launched its most notorious operation, the 9/11 terror attacks. Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda's founder and charismatic leader, was killed by United States Navy (...)

11 - 09 - 2011
Mubarak's last laugh?
CAIRO: August 3, 2011, will be remembered as a historic day in Egypt. Former President Hosni Mubarak was put on public trial, together with his two sons and his ex-interior minister, General Habib El-Adly. The repercussions for Egypt, indeed for the (...)

07 - 08 - 2011
Libya after Qaddafi
BENGHAZI: Middle Eastern autocrats routinely warn their people of rivers of blood, Western occupation, poverty, chaos, and Al Qaeda if their regimes are toppled. Those threats were heard in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and — rendered in (...)

15 - 07 - 2011
The son also slaughters
LONDON: “The enemy of yesterday is the friend of today....[I]t was a real war, but those brothers are free men now.” Thus spoke Saif Al-Islam Al-Qaddafi in March 2010, referring to the leaders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an armed (...)

04 - 03 - 2011
Libya's Lord of the Flies
LONDON: “I am a glory that will not be abandoned by Libya, the Arabs, the United States, and Latin America…revolution, revolution, let the attack begin,” said the self-described King of African Kings, Dean of Arab Leaders, and Imam of all Muslims, (...)

25 - 02 - 2011
Copts, Brothers, Salafis, and Autocrats
“The Copts are the origin of this country…we treat the guests who came and lived here nicely…but we are ready to die as martyrs if anyone touches our Christian message.” “The Coptic Church is not [merely] a parallel republic in Egypt…it is an (...)

13 - 01 - 2011
SMS messaging restricted in bid to preempt pre-election activism
Egypt's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has imposed new restrictions aimed at tightening control over the SMS messaging services provided by mobile phone companies and media institutions in an apparent effort to preempt (...)

11 - 10 - 2010
ElBaradei and the mobilization of the Egyptian diaspora
“This is a giant that needs to be awakened to save Egypt…look at what other diaspora communities are doing,” said one enthusiastic participant in a recent London conference for the Egyptian National Assembly for Change (NAC). The conference was one (...)

29 - 09 - 2010
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