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January 27, 2014

The revolution cannot be negotiated: No to recognition…No to reconciliation…No to negotiations

In the New Labour Party, we were silent about the endless initiatives and negotiations, discussed during the National Coalition to Support Legitimacy meetings, because we were sure they would...

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January 27, 2014

Egypt: into the unknown and beyond the bounds of history

Egypt’s current problem is that it is moving beyond the bounds of history and it is feared that the Arab world will follow suit. Those who read Egyptian newspapers...

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January 27, 2014

Protests between the delusions of the coup and the hopes of the protestors

The people behind Egypt’s coup mock the pro-legitimacy supporters and their protests, calling them “foolish”. They claim that the thousands on the streets are misguided and will not achieve...

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January 27, 2014

Egypt’s Kung Fu champion evokes memories of the 1968 black power salute

Wearing a yellow t-shirt with the familiar Rabaa salute, Egyptian Kung Fu champion Mohammed Youssef stepped up to receive his gold medal at the World Championship in Russia this...

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January 27, 2014

Chasing away the Tunisian revolution

Al-Nahda Party is struggling to make sure that what happened to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt does not happen in Tunisia. More importantly, the party is working towards sparing...

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January 27, 2014

Protecting the creative voices of the Arab Uprising

Last week rapper Ahmed Ben Ahmed was released after three weeks in prison. The Tunisian artist, aka Klay BBJ, was originally sentenced to 21 months in prison for ‘insulting...

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January 27, 2014

How credible is the claim of the failure of political Islam?

Whenever the Islamists suffer a setback, or even a small decline in votes, some Western experts monitoring the Islamic Movement’s path rush to proclaim to the world that political...

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January 27, 2014

A revealing phone conversation

I was having lunch when my Egyptian line rang. The caller was Dr Osama al-Ghazali Harb, head of the Democratic Front Party, a member of the National Salvation Front,...

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January 27, 2014

Modernising but Non-Democratising Armies? Part II

In the first part of this two-part series, a comparison was drawn between the Turkish and Egyptian armies. This comparison highlighted potential pitfalls that could occur before civilian control...

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January 27, 2014

Egypt: its status, history and the Palestinian case

Ever since the beginning of Egypt’s incitement campaign against Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza, including the attempts to disfigure the image of the Palestinian resistance in Egyptian media,...

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