Opinion

After being away – I won't say staying away – from Egypt for over 18 years, I went to Cairo, the capital that hosted me, along with millions of...

The Nile holds special significance in Egypt – as the Greek historian Herodotus wrote, "Egypt is the gift of the Nile". The river provides sustenance to the country as...

The last time I visited Tunisia's capital over a quarter of a century ago, we behaved like the criminals in detective movies. In order to visit Sheikh Rashed al-Ghannouchi,...

"The revolution wasn't an event, it's a process." For some this is Egypt's post-revolutionary mantra, to be whispered in the middle of the night with clenched fists and gritted...

Two proverbs are worthy of our consideration: "A king can only prevail with his soldiers," is one, and "the heart of authority is the ability to determine and implement...

Was the opposition demonstration in Cairo huge on Sunday? Yes, it was; but so was the crowd supporting the president, although scanning the media you would be hard-pressed to...

The public and political rise of the Islamists in the Arab world did not begin with the Arab Spring. In fact, the shift in their favour started in the...

Things are not looking good for Mohamed Morsi. Egypt's president – the first to be democratically elected in six decades – is floundering after days of mass protests have...

Interesting times to be in government. In Egypt at least. There have been resignations and walk-outs. There might be a military coup. First the army, now Egyptian government officials...

Some friends were angry at me when I said the following in an article yesterday: "Those who do not want to see that the current violence is between Mubarak's...

The military coup in Egypt had a number of results, the most difficult of which for a nascent democracy is the return of the military to the political scene....

Media reports in Israel suggest that the government there would be very happy to see the back of Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi. One Israeli commentator on Arab issues told...

After the military coup against elected President Mohamed Morsi, we can say that the January 25 revolution has ended. The blood and sacrifice of that revolution appear to have...

I write this piece after all that was hidden was disclosed. It is a piece not addressed to political opponents or those who I thought were political opponents; it...

Despite the internet age and the global village, as well as Facebook and Twitter, it is hard to know exactly what is happening in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Squares...

Egypt's Minister of Defence, Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, and the leaders of the National Salvation Front underestimated the strength of the Islamic current, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, when they...

Many people attribute the ongoing crisis and the coup against Morsi and his government in Egypt to the Brotherhood's failure in running the state. They also attribute this failure...

The leaders of the Egyptian army have taken Egypt back nearly a 100 years…. they have taken it back to the era of military coups, which were prevalent in...

It doesn't really matter if you are for or against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi; nor is it important for you to be convinced of the integrity of the Muslim...

In Robert Ludlum's The Aquitaine Progression, the story begins with protagonist Joel Converse meeting a man he has not seen in 20 years, dying violently at his feet whispering...

We can debate whether the incident in Egypt was a popular revolution against Muslim Brotherhood tyranny or a military coup against its democratic legitimacy, but in my view the...

Part-time comedian Bassem Youssef is the kind of Egyptian that liberals in the West can relate to. He was feted in Western media as a cause celebre for freedom...

The matter at hand during this difficult time, which began with the events on June 30 2013 and culminated in a military coup on July 3 2013, is not...

Although the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his ministers not to make any statements regarding the Egyptian army's overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the elite Zionist security...

Conspiracy theories are quick to circulate in the Arab world. Often, they are just that – theories – but often, they are ultimately proved to be correct. The geopolitical...

Post-military coup, the political reality has changed in Egypt. Newspapers and television stations have been closed down; the legislative council has been dissolved; Islamic leaders have been arrested; and...

Why were the Gulf States of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia so unhappy at the success of the January 2011 revolution in Egypt and so passionate...

When a journalist sets out to defame a political opponent, whoever it may be, finding the reasoning behind it will not be difficult, whatever the motive may be, whatever...

The Vice President of Egypt's Al-Wasat Party has claimed that President Morsi's support for the Palestinian cause "fuelled" the coup against him. The result, said Dr Essam Sultan, is...

Shortly before riding into the vice-presidency of Egypt on the back of military tanks, Muhammad el-Baradei told Foreign Policy "You Can't Eat Sharia" in a criticism of the policies...

One of the characteristics of military coups is that the forces which carry them out rarely know much about the objectives of their actions. Indeed, this is true of...

Although I heard General Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi call on the people to take to the streets and squares on Friday to give him a mandate to deal with the...