On Mubarak-style Nasserism in Egypt
About two weeks ago, Radio 4’s BBC World Service broadcast a programme over four episodes on the Arab world in the contemporary era; the second episode was about the...
January 27, 2014
About two weeks ago, Radio 4’s BBC World Service broadcast a programme over four episodes on the Arab world in the contemporary era; the second episode was about the...
January 27, 2014
Human Rights Watch has denounced the Egyptian government’s designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist” organisation. It has described the move as a means by which the government...
January 27, 2014
The trial for the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was postponed until next February 1st due to weather conditions that prevented him from being transferred from his prison in...
January 27, 2014
Last week, after an evening pasting ‘No to the Constitution’ posters to walls in Cairo’s downtown Garden City, three volunteers from the Strong Egypt party headed to take a...
January 27, 2014
On 14h and 15th January the Egyptian military-backed regime held a constitutional referendum in an attempt to bring legitimacy to the political developments that have taken place since the...
January 27, 2014
If the recent decision by General Al-Sisi’s coup regime regarding the status of the Muslim Brotherhood says anything about the situation in Egypt, it would be that the continuing...
January 27, 2014
The international legal team appointed by the Freedom and Justice Party announced yesterday in London that representatives of the “legitimate Egyptian government” have launched an international case against the...
January 27, 2014
Last Saturday, an Egyptian government fact-finding committee met to discuss the events that took place during the June 30th coup. At the same time, a group of human rights...
January 27, 2014
I will not argue the power of Colonel Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s popularity, but I will allow myself to argue him being the “necessary” man and that there is no...
January 27, 2014
Weeks ago I said in a talk that the place of this constitution is underneath the shoes of the new generation. Yet, I did not expect this to happen...