US economy contracts in Q1 '25    Golf Festival in Cairo to mark Arab Golf Federation's 50th anniversary    EGP closes high vs. USD on Wednesday    Germany's regional inflation ticks up in April    Taiwan GDP surges on tech demand    Germany among EU's priciest labour markets – official data    UNFPA Egypt, Bayer sign agreement to promote reproductive health    Egypt to boost marine protection with new tech partnership    Eygpt's El-Sherbiny directs new cities to brace for adverse weather    CBE governor meets Beijing delegation to discuss economic, financial cooperation    Egypt's investment authority GAFI hosts forum with China to link business, innovation leaders    Cabinet approves establishment of national medical tourism council to boost healthcare sector    Egypt's Gypto Pharma, US Dawa Pharmaceuticals sign strategic alliance    Egypt's Foreign Minister calls new Somali counterpart, reaffirms support    "5,000 Years of Civilizational Dialogue" theme for Korea-Egypt 30th anniversary event    Egypt's Al-Sisi, Angola's Lourenço discuss ties, African security in Cairo talks    Egypt's Al-Mashat urges lower borrowing costs, more debt swaps at UN forum    Two new recycling projects launched in Egypt with EGP 1.7bn investment    Egypt's ambassador to Palestine congratulates Al-Sheikh on new senior state role    Egypt pleads before ICJ over Israel's obligations in occupied Palestine    Sudan conflict, bilateral ties dominate talks between Al-Sisi, Al-Burhan in Cairo    Cairo's Madinaty and Katameya Dunes Golf Courses set to host 2025 Pan Arab Golf Championship from May 7-10    Egypt's Ministry of Health launches trachoma elimination campaign in 7 governorates    EHA explores strategic partnership with Türkiye's Modest Group    Between Women Filmmakers' Caravan opens 5th round of Film Consultancy Programme for Arab filmmakers    Fourth Cairo Photo Week set for May, expanding across 14 Downtown locations    Egypt's PM follows up on Julius Nyerere dam project in Tanzania    Ancient military commander's tomb unearthed in Ismailia    Egypt's FM inspects Julius Nyerere Dam project in Tanzania    Egypt's FM praises ties with Tanzania    Egypt to host global celebration for Grand Egyptian Museum opening on July 3    Ancient Egyptian royal tomb unearthed in Sohag    Egypt hosts World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup in Somabay for 3rd consecutive year    Egyptian Minister praises Nile Basin consultations, voices GERD concerns    Paris Olympic gold '24 medals hit record value    A minute of silence for Egyptian sports    Russia says it's in sync with US, China, Pakistan on Taliban    It's a bit frustrating to draw at home: Real Madrid keeper after Villarreal game    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 Tewfik Aclimandos
An American conspiracy?
I have been discussing narratives of the 25 January Revolution in Egypt put forward by journalists close to the state apparatus and looking at one crucial point: the idea of a conspiracy theory. A colleague has contested my description of the causes (...)

19 - 07 - 2018
An American conspiracy?
In a previous article I wrote that many journalists close to the Egyptian state, many state actors, and indeed many other influential groups believed that the former Mubarak regime in Egypt was the victim of a sophisticated conspiracy orchestrated (...)

12 - 07 - 2018
China and the US
In the March issue of the influential US magazine Foreign Affairs, Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner, two former officials of the Obama administration, have published an important article entitled “The China Reckoning: How Beijing defied American (...)

21 - 06 - 2018
The French elections – two
Some weeks ago I wrote a column entitled “Don't Write off the Old Fox” saying the French President François Hollande still could win the country's presidential elections next year. The right's primary was expected to be tough and detrimental to the (...)

11 - 10 - 2016
French foreign policy
I feel a kind of urge to evoke this topic, although I am no expert on it. I have had the opportunity over the years of meeting and developing friendships with many diplomats and other members of the French foreign policy community. I recently read (...)

05 - 09 - 2016
Thoughts on the future crisis
The relation of a society to its future is crucial, and many contemporary French philosophers, notably Marcel Gauchet and Pierre André Taguieff, have devoted their attention to this topic. Their thoughts are crucial for understanding the present (...)

30 - 08 - 2016
The French crisis V
In my previous columns I have tried to say many things. First of all, a proper understanding of the ongoing situation in France requires a good analysis of the crisis of the traditional way of doing things – the republican model – which bets on the (...)

23 - 08 - 2016
The French crisis IV
A friend, a prominent French left-of-centre political philosopher who is deeply concerned by the popularity of “multiculturalist ideology” within some circles of the ruling class and among intellectuals in France, once told me that France had an (...)

16 - 08 - 2016
The French crisis III
May 1968 was a huge and resounding no to “authoritarian” France by a new left generation that felt it could no longer accept classical Marxist-Leninist doctrines and could no longer wait for the great day to come. This generation and others started (...)

09 - 08 - 2016
The French crisis
French academics noted since the second half of the 1980s that the French “schooling system” was no longer working. The poorest could no longer climb the social ladder and they were no longer “integrated” into society and the nation. This was (...)

27 - 07 - 2016
French debates on political Islam and terrorism
Gilles Kepel is a towering figure and in some ways a tragic one. He spent some two or three years in Egypt at the beginning of the 1980s. Then he brilliantly defended a PhD on Egypt's Islamists during the Sadat era — a pioneering work that is now (...)

28 - 06 - 2016
French debates on political Islam and terrorism
A fierce debate and petty spat erupted some months ago between Gilles Kepel and Olivier Roy, two of the handful of heavyweight stars of the strange world of French Arab and Muslim studies. Both are in their sixties and are internationally respected (...)

21 - 06 - 2016
Don't write off Hollande
The conventional wisdom says French President François Hollande will lose the country's next presidential race in 2017. He is the incumbent, he is unpopular, his record is at best mixed, he more often than not is hesitant, his party seems unable to (...)

13 - 06 - 2016
Advertisement