Opinion

Strange circumstances led to the appointment of the former president of the Tunisian League and the Arab Commission for Human Rights as the head of the state in post-Arab...

In a recently leaked sound clip of an interview with General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Egypt's Minister of Defence and current de facto leader, interviewer Yasir Rizk, the Editor-in-Chief of...

A new banner advertising a 'constitution for all Egyptians' depicts an unlikely looking collection of people. Standing in a line, from right to left, is a soldier, a man...

There is no doubt that in all of its modern history Egypt has never been exposed to the chaos, turmoil, polarisation and division which now threaten its social and...

The people of Egypt will be called upon to vote on a new constitution over the next few days. The strange thing about this is that during its final...

By designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist organisation" the interim Egyptian government has hammered the final nail in the coffin of any political settlement that could have mended...

The results of a number of security solutions to national and international issues will not last long despite their current effectiveness. While some regimes have managed to suppress their...

What role can the Muslim Brotherhood, with its current ideological standpoint, play in the post-Arab Spring era in Egypt and following the ouster of its political leader Mohamed Morsi...

Aside from the debate over its relative success or failure, the political dialogue in Tunisia marked the end of one turbulent era and the beginning of another, perhaps more...

For some Egyptian politicians to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood and its leaders is expected; for most of the media to be recruited in an attack against the movement is...

When the countdown to the creation of South Sudan began after the 2010 elections, some western sources described the upcoming state of the south as "predetermined to fail". They...

About two weeks ago, Radio 4's BBC World Service broadcast a programme over four episodes on the Arab world in the contemporary era; the second episode was about the...

Human Rights Watch has denounced the Egyptian government's designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist" organisation. It has described the move as a means by which the government...

The trial for the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was postponed until next February 1st due to weather conditions that prevented him from being transferred from his prison in...

On 14h and 15th January the Egyptian military-backed regime held a constitutional referendum in an attempt to bring legitimacy to the political developments that have taken place since the...

Last week, after an evening pasting 'No to the Constitution' posters to walls in Cairo's downtown Garden City, three volunteers from the Strong Egypt party headed to take a...

If the recent decision by General Al-Sisi's coup regime regarding the status of the Muslim Brotherhood says anything about the situation in Egypt, it would be that the continuing...

The international legal team appointed by the Freedom and Justice Party announced yesterday in London that representatives of the "legitimate Egyptian government" have launched an international case against the...

Last Saturday, an Egyptian government fact-finding committee met to discuss the events that took place during the June 30th coup. At the same time, a group of human rights...

I will not argue the power of Colonel Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's popularity, but I will allow myself to argue him being the "necessary" man and that there is no...

Weeks ago I said in a talk that the place of this constitution is underneath the shoes of the new generation. Yet, I did not expect this to happen...

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Mahmoud Ghozlan, has denied any intention to tighten the siege on the Gaza Strip. He made his statement in the context...

By Senussi Bsaikri George Mitchell's last visit to the region ended without the announcement of any tangible development. This was the case with all his previous visits. On October...

By Bilal Al-Hasan Al-Sharq Al-Awsat18 October 2009 The popular Palestinian and Arab campaign against the PA's decision to defer the Goldstone report and not refer it to the Security...

Foreign Policy (US). . Saree Makdisi 06/11/2009. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, was no good for Palestine. And his exit will make a peaceful solution more likely....

By Zulaikha Abdullah This week marks twenty one years since the November 18, 1988 declaration of a Palestinian state. To coincide with commemorations of this event, and amid increasing...

By Anshel Pfeffer  I met this week a senior IDF general who had been intimately involved with the planning and execution of last year's Operation Cast Lead. I asked...

What do you think of when you hear the words, "Palestinian refugee camp"? Miles of open land covered in tents housing entire families crammed together, perhaps? Poverty stricken people...

By Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem 18 December, 2009 Political Zionism arose out of the murderous pogroms against Jews in Eastern Europe and Russia in the 19th century. Such...

By Ibrahim Hewitt When concern about the after-effects of Israel's aggression against the civilian population in Gaza was still high, Time magazine described Palestinian refugees in Lebanon as "A...

By Ibrahim Hewitt In his classic 1963 song The times they are a-changin', American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan wrote, "For the loser now will be later to win, for the...

By Dr. Abdul Wahhab Al-Effendi22/12/2009 The steel wall that Egypt intends to build on its borders with besieged Gaza illustrates the double bind that resulted from the Camp David...