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March 29, 2014

The journey of refugees hosted by a small nation with a big heart

The Syrian refugee crisis has evolved into one of the most dramatic human tragedies of our times. Over four million Syrians have been displaced within Syria and more than...

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March 29, 2014

Don’t believe the promises of the Syrian Regime

It’s either that large powers are naïve or that they’re trying to buy more time to enable the Syrian regime to regain its power and triumph over its rivals,...

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March 29, 2014

Egypt slips from US democratic agenda

Last month, US President Barack Obama gave his annual State of the Union address. The speech is the president’s opportunity to assess the condition of the country, as well...

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March 29, 2014

Envying the Tunisian people

The Tunisians have succeeded where the Egyptians failed; they’ve agreed on a new post-revolution constitution and given a vote of confidence to a government of independents. Egypt’s third anniversary...

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March 29, 2014

Egypt’s Morsi deserves to be honoured, not prosecuted, over Ittihadeya Palace clashes

Every now and then, I laugh hysterically when I read news stories on old or new trials for defendants accused of killing protesters while the “murder machine” still continues...

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March 29, 2014

MEMO publishes article banned in Egypt: The military’s intervention in politics could deepen rifts in society

Whether Mohamed Hassanein Heikal is just preparing Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s electoral program, as published by privately owned daily newspaper Youm7, or whether he is maintaining his position...

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March 29, 2014

Oman leads opposition to Gulf political union

While the GCC seemed shocked when Oman threatened to pull out of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), if any union went ahead, the announcement should have come as no...

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March 29, 2014

Rejecting the ‘good Muslim, bad Muslim’ framework

Writing back in 2002, scholar Mahmood Mamdani astutely remarked that after 11 September, Western publics and their leaders, like former US President George W Bush and former UK Prime...

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March 29, 2014

Destroying artefacts in the Middle East and wiping out thousands of years of history

During Egypt’s 2011 revolution, protestors joined hands and forged a human chain outside the Egyptian museum to protect the ancient artefacts inside. But looters taking advantage of the collapsed...

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March 29, 2014

The demise of the two-state solution

Even if the Palestinians agree to implement all of Israel’s preconditions for the peace talks, the Israeli government will surely invent new and even more ridiculous terms to delay...

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