A recent landmark ruling -- long overdue -- of the Administrative Court essentially defends free expression on matters of religion, writes Salah Eissa
After three years of winning the State Merit Award in Social Sciences, Hassan Hanafi and Sayed (...)
Could the transition of power be delayed, asks Salah Eissa*
Two and a half months before the end of the first interim phase and the mistakes of all the players in the political arena have precipitated a series of political, legal and constitutional (...)
For all the failed idealism of the revolutionaries and secular left, the Egyptian people did overthrow a dictatorship, and that means something, writes Salah Eissa*
Egyptians, especially those who took an active part in the 25 January Revolution, (...)
The forthcoming parliamentary elections will seal the fate of the old Egyptian political party system, but will they lead to the establishment of a new majority party, asks Salah Eissa*
By all indications the forthcoming parliamentary polls, the (...)
When does an uprising become a revolution, asks Salah Eissa*
Long after its final chapter has closed the Egyptian youth Intifada or uprising that opened on 25 January 2011 will continue to perplex historians and political scientists who are still (...)
Now is not the first time that the army has ruled Egypt, writes Salah Eissa*
Having stepped down, president Hosni Mubarak left the Higher Council of the Armed Forces in charge. It is not the first time the army has found itself in this position.
The (...)
The popular uprising that swept Bin Ali from power may have been just, but the question is now, can it be democratic, asks Salah Eissa*
What happened in Tunisia is nothing more than what is commonly referred to as a "corrective movement" or a (...)
By effectively excluding the opposition parties from parliament, the ruling National Democratic Party may have got more than it bargained for, says Salah Eissa*
The joy has faded away as fast as it built up. The jubilation of the leaders of the (...)
Despite the country's long history of parliamentary democracy, only a minority of Egyptian citizens vote, Salah Eissa* explains
Egypt's first nationally elected parliament met for the first time on 25 November 1866. Before the meeting started, the (...)
While it can be faulted, as with all social upheavals, the 1952 Revolution in Egypt advanced values the Egyptian people continue to revere and uphold, writes Salah Eissa*
There must be a reason for the rather extravagant commemoration of the 1952 (...)
It is not only Bush that led many in Egypt and the Arab world to reject America, writes Salah Eissa*
In the first half of the 20th century Egyptians had a rosy image of America. Now the image is getting bloodier with every passing day. America was a (...)
Millions have found a home in religion in the context of the West's confrontation with the Arab and Islamic worlds. The crisis, or assimilation, of secular Arab nationalism has contributed to the rise of political Islam. Does this signal an end to (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood, far from adhering to defined principles, is a movement that employs political opportunism at will, writes Salah Eissa*
The most important revelation of the first two stages of parliamentary elections is that the (...)