CAIRO: A complex and rampant phenomenon in Egyptian society, sectarian violence has been infesting Egypt for a long time, spawned as a result of a host of economic, social and cultural woes.
There is a direct and undeniable link between the (...)
The sectarian strife that has been plaguing Egypt for more than four decades is so ruinously dangerous that it should be addressed prudently and with much vigilance. As it mars the atmosphere of tolerance and peaceful co-existence between Muslims (...)
The current situation in the Arab World begs the question: Were the "states that came into existence between the two world wars or after World War II states in the real sense of the word according to the definition of a "state by political (...)
On Jan. 2, 2008 President Mubarak inspected hundreds of Egyptian troops ahead of their deployment in the war-torn Darfur region of neighboring Sudan to join a UN-African peacekeeping force in a move that calls to mind an interesting historical (...)
On the 10th of this month, France received Libyan President Moammar Qaddafi in a step representing the pinnacle of President Sarkozy's "realpolitik, which was preceded by his famous visit to Libya when he settled the Bulgarian nurses' (...)
For the past 50 years, Egyptian and foreign intellectuals and researchers have been accustomed to classifying intellectual and political currents in Egypt into four main categories: Islamists, nationalists (aka Nasserites), socialists and (...)