All Stories

January 27, 2014

The arrest of Gehad El-Haddad raises serious concerns about freedom of expression in Egypt

The arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood’s spokesman, Gehad El-Haddad, had the hallmarks of a kidnapping rather than a conventional arrest. His arrest in Cairo on Tuesday, along with two...

Article
January 27, 2014

Egypt’s very public political and moral suicide

Since President Anwar Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem in 1977, Egypt has been in a dark tunnel that has altered the country from an Arab state to an “Arab crisis”....

Article
January 27, 2014

Are Algeria and Tunisia holding friendly talks?

Algeria and its neighbour Tunisia have increased the levels of their discrete bilateral cooperation. In a period of roughly a month and a half, Algerian and Tunisian officials met...

Article
January 27, 2014

What Egypt’s military spokesman missed out

At the end of July, Hamas held a press conference in Gaza in which it presented a number of documents issued by the Palestinian Authority security agencies in Ramallah....

Article
January 27, 2014

New ban of Muslim Brotherhood is hardly a game-changer

After the second hearing session into the case, an Egyptian administrative court in Cairo has issued a decision to ban the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s biggest and most...

Article
January 27, 2014

Hamas has not interfered in the affairs of Arab states

Hamas has been accused of interfering in Egypt’s internal affairs; an earlier accusation mentioned Syria. Such accusations are unprecedented, as well as unfounded, because ever since the movement was...

Article
January 27, 2014

The US-Brotherhood “alliance”

Nowadays, Egypt is witnessing the absurdity of the coup-backed media spreading lies to demonise the coup’s opponents and then calling on those who have been named to prove their...

Article
January 27, 2014

A historic reconciliation or a daily open conflict

It was not difficult to anticipate the stumbling paths of the 25 January revolution and their repercussions such as those we see now of the decline and absence of...

Article
January 27, 2014

The systematic arrest of journalists in Egypt, and a trade treat for Canada

On Sunday, the world learnt that the detention of Tarek Loubani and John Greyson had been extended by 45 days. The Canadian doctor and filmmaker have been held without...

Article
January 27, 2014

What is there in common between Gen. Musharraf and Gen. Al Sisi?

In the aftermath of the military coup in Egypt on July 3, 2013, comparisons to other countries came thick and fast. For the optimists, there was Turkey, where the...

Article

All Stories Archive

Subscribe to our newsletter