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January 27, 2014

Tamarod appears to have eased the way for Mubarak remnants to return

In 2011, protests in Egypt felled a military dictator, Hosni Mubarak. The mass protests of the 25 January Revolution were a rejection of the corruption and repression engendered by...

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January 27, 2014

Is America working against its own interests in Egypt?

For the first time since the coup, the US administration has taken a clear position towards the situation in Egypt. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that the...

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January 27, 2014

Is it almost time for the Brotherhood?

Ever since the huge June 30 protests, Egypt has been running on its own time zone. The new military-led government has issued a series of 48-hour warnings aimed at...

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January 27, 2014

Disaster in Egypt has been delayed, not averted

I have spent many hours of the last week in conversation with Egyptians, both with supporters of the removal of the elected Islamist government of Mohamed Morsi and his...

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January 27, 2014

Bringing Al-Sisi down from the tree

A fool may throw a stone into a well but 100 sane people cannot remove it, says the proverb. To paraphrase its sentiments, a few crazy people can put...

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January 27, 2014

The perseverance of the legitimacy supporters upsets coup leaders’ calculations

Not in their worst nightmares could the coup leaders have imagined that events would have unfolded as they did. They had carefully drafted each detail and planned the coup...

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January 27, 2014

The coup against democracy is par for the course in Egyptian politics

In January 1924, Saad Zaghloul became the Prime Minister of Egypt after the Wafd Party won the parliamentary elections. This victory came after the birth of a new Egypt...

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January 27, 2014

Sit-ins surround the coup as the pressure grows

Egypt’s coup appears to be surrounded by protest sit-ins. Just as the military is suppressing civil unrest, with the backing of a compliant media, so too are the coup...

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January 27, 2014

Government and opposition need to learn how to be democratic

Over the past few weeks, I have been dismayed by the degree of intolerance and rigidity of the quarrelling parties in Egypt; both have been on the defensive, unwilling...

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January 27, 2014

Unprecedented security cooperation between Egypt and Israel in the Sinai

On Friday, in Egypt’s largely lawless Sinai Peninsula, a drone strike killed at least four suspected Islamic militants and destroyed a rocket launcher. The attack, which came one day...

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