Climate finance must be fairer for emerging economies: Finance Minister    Al-Sisi orders expansion of oil, gas and mining exploration, new investor incentives    Cairo intensifies regional diplomacy to secure support for US Gaza resolution at UN    Egypt unveils National Digital Health Strategy 2025–2029 to drive systemwide transformation    Minapharm, Bayer sign strategic agreement to localize pharmaceutical manufacturing in Egypt    Egypt golf team reclaims Arab standing with silver; Omar Hisham Talaat congratulates team    ADCB launches ClimaTech Accelerator 2025    Egypt's FRA approves first digital platform for real estate fund investments    Egypt signs 15-year deal with Deutsche Bahn-El Sewedy consortium to run high-speed rail network    Egypt extends Eni's oil and gas concession in Suez Gulf, Nile Delta to 2040    Egypt launches National Strategy for Rare Diseases at PHDC'25    Egypt's Al-Sisi ratifies new criminal procedures law after parliament amends it    Egypt's FM discusses Gaza, Libya, Sudan at Turkey's SETA foundation    Egypt launches 3rd World Conference on Population, Health and Human Development    Cowardly attacks will not weaken Pakistan's resolve to fight terrorism, says FM    Egypt adds trachoma elimination to health success track record: WHO    Egypt, Latvia sign healthcare MoU during PHDC'25    Egypt, Sudan, UN convene to ramp up humanitarian aid in Sudan    Egyptians vote in 1st stage of lower house of parliament elections    Grand Egyptian Museum welcomes over 12,000 visitors on seventh day    Sisi meets Russian security chief to discuss Gaza ceasefire, trade, nuclear projects    Egypt repatriates 36 smuggled ancient artefacts from the US    Grand Egyptian Museum attracts 18k visitors on first public opening day    'Royalty on the Nile': Grand Ball of Monte-Carlo comes to Cairo    VS-FILM Festival for Very Short Films Ignites El Sokhna    Egypt's cultural palaces authority launches nationwide arts and culture events    Egypt launches Red Sea Open to boost tourism, international profile    Qatar to activate Egypt investment package with Matrouh deal in days: Cabinet    Omar Hisham Talaat: Media partnership with 'On Sports' key to promoting Egyptian golf tourism    Sisi expands national support fund to include diplomats who died on duty    Egypt's PM reviews efforts to remove Nile River encroachments    Al-Sisi: Cairo to host Gaza reconstruction conference in November    Egypt will never relinquish historical Nile water rights, PM says    Egypt resolves dispute between top African sports bodies ahead of 2027 African Games    Germany among EU's priciest labour markets – official data    Paris Olympic gold '24 medals hit record value    It's a bit frustrating to draw at home: Real Madrid keeper after Villarreal game    Russia says it's in sync with US, China, Pakistan on Taliban    Shoukry reviews with Guterres Egypt's efforts to achieve SDGs, promote human rights    Sudan says countries must cooperate on vaccines    Johnson & Johnson: Second shot boosts antibodies and protection against COVID-19    Egypt to tax bloggers, YouTubers    Egypt's FM asserts importance of stability in Libya, holding elections as scheduled    We mustn't lose touch: Muller after Bayern win in Bundesliga    Egypt records 36 new deaths from Covid-19, highest since mid June    Egypt sells $3 bln US-dollar dominated eurobonds    Gamal Hanafy's ceramic exhibition at Gezira Arts Centre is a must go    Italian Institute Director Davide Scalmani presents activities of the Cairo Institute for ITALIANA.IT platform    

Articles of the author Paul Sedra
Egypt''s state of siege
Egypt's foreign reserves have fallen to a startlingly low US$13.6 billion — the lowest level for reserves since 1997, and less than the sum necessary to finance the country's imports for three months. The black market rate of exchange for the pound (...)

20 - 02 - 2013
The tragedy of the Brotherhood
As President Mohamed Morsy wagged his finger at Egyptians in his televised address to the nation on 27 January, my mind wandered back to the televised addresses former President Hosni Mubarak gave during his last 18 days in power. Back then, too, (...)

03 - 02 - 2013
The poison in Egypt''s political life
As year two of the revolution comes to a close, one can scarcely escape the conclusion in media circles that Egypt is polarized. Without question, the result of the referendum has left countless Egyptians, not least the revolutionaries who were the (...)

28 - 12 - 2012
The Brotherhood''s politics of fear and division
All Egyptians have heard variations of the tale throughout their lives. As far back as the time of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Bishop of Monufiya, Serapamon, was said to have cured the Pasha's daughter of illness by making the sign of the cross over a (...)

23 - 12 - 2012
Copts and the power over personal status
When former President Hosni Mubarak introduced amendments to the 1971 Constitution in 2007, the always contested issue of the status of Sharia in Egyptian law reemerged in public discourse. Among the most unexpected contributions to the debate that (...)

06 - 12 - 2012
The ethics of electioneering
Although the principal issue in this year's US presidential election was America's still-flagging economy, there is little question that the business of electioneering is booming. The Center for Responsive Politics recently projected that spending (...)

07 - 11 - 2012
A new pope, a new approach?
Roughly 2,400 electors on 29 October will cast ballots to narrow the field for the papal seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church from the current five candidates down to three. Six days later, on 4 November, a blindfolded child will select the name of (...)

28 - 10 - 2012
The urgency of peaceful protest in today''s Egypt
The hysteria that now afflicts the American media with reference to the anti-US protests in the Arab and Muslim worlds is a spectacle unworthy of that purported bastion of free speech and a free press. The killing of US diplomatic personnel in (...)

22 - 09 - 2012
Islamists took over years ago
Twenty years ago, the French academic Olivier Roy published the book for which he is best known, “L'échec de l'Islam politique”, translated into English as The Failure of Political Islam. The title may sound comical today in the midst of the (...)

09 - 09 - 2012
The cultural project of the revolution
Anxiety is running high among Egypt's liberals and secularists. President Mohamed Morsy and the Islamist constituency that elected him pose a threat to the character of the Egyptian state, according to such figures as Tahani al-Gebali and Mohamed (...)

25 - 08 - 2012
The pope''s predicament
Just over ten years ago, before the illness that took his life yesterday had sapped his body's strength, I had the opportunity to meet with Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church. It was September 2001, only a matter of days (...)

18 - 03 - 2012
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