Fahmi Huwaidi

The problem of judges in Egypt is not new. In the sixties legal counsellor Momtaz Nassar called for an end to the government's meddling in the judicial system; this...

Last Wednesday, May 8th, the Jordanian Parliament voted on a resolution calling on the government to expel the Israeli ambassador from Amman and to summon the Jordanian ambassador to...

Are we witnessing the dissolution of the Egyptian revolution without realising it? To show you what I mean, let us recall what happened to the revolution led by Prime...

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...

My biggest fear is that the uprising Egypt witnessed on June 30 2013 will be utilised to attack the revolution of January 25 2011 in a manner that makes...

I have a number of questions regarding the current events in Egypt. The most notable of which are as follows: On July 23, Al-Ahram newspaper published a headline noting...

Egypt needs a miracle. The "positive" development in the past 10 days is that we have moved from denying the crisis to acknowledging its existence, but there remains uncertainty...

Our sadness is doubled. We went to sleep with the massacre of prisoners while being transferred to Abu Zaabal prison, and woke up to the slaughter of soldiers in...

I do not know when we will sober up and discern the truth of many of the myths spread across Egypt nowadays. However, I see indications that this sobriety...

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....

I do not know to what extent it is permissible for me to comment on or discuss the comments that Al-Masri Al-Youm newspaper have attributed to Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi....

The first hearing of the case against ousted President Dr Mohammed Morsi has shed light on several mysterious issues and, more importantly, has helped to clear up many questions...

It was reported in Al-Sabah newspaper that 575 soldiers who worked for Mubarak's security state and were dismissed during the revolution, have been reinstated. I then read of a...

The Egyptians did not have the chance to follow the discussions of the constitution committee, which were held behind closed doors, in keeping with the new-old "transparency". However, some...

It is essential for an investigation to be opened into Israel's plunder of Egypt's huge natural gas resources. The matter is too serious to be met with silence and...

I was not surprised when I read a story on Twitter about a man divorcing his wife after 12 years of marriage and having two children because he was...

When the head of military justice tried to defend the article in the new Egyptian constitution that allows civilians to be tried before military courts, he included any person...

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...

By Fahmi Huwaidi The current consensus among the majority of Egyptians, with a loss of confidence in the present and growing concern for the future, brings to mind pivotal...

The latter is no longer immortalised or mentioned in his country, despite his dramatic decision in the mid-1970s to turn his back on Moscow and face toward Washington. In...

It is important for us to know what others scheme for our revolutions, and we should not be surprised if they attempt to hijack or abort them. But what...

Events in Tunisia carry several important messages for us. When the results of the Tunisian election came through, many were surprised that the An-Nahda Party had done so well,...

We owe the Syrian people an apology for every day that they were slaughtered before our eyes during the past eleven months. The Arab people have let them down...

By Fahmi Huwaidi As direct negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian Authority take centre stage we must declare publicly that it is the "moderate" Arab states which have provided...

By Fahmi HuwaidiThe Muslim and Arab world must thank the organisers of the Freedom Flotilla for waking us out of our coma and reminding us that the situation in...

By Fahmi HuwaidiIt should not be assumed that the US convened "Entrepreneurship in the Islamic world" conference in Washington this week is as innocent as its name suggests. There...

By Fahmi Huwaidi This has been a week of shocks in the Middle east "peace process". In fact, it's been a week of scandals which should leave Arabs shamefaced....

The past week has seen a lot of media speculation about seven Palestinians who were taken into custody as they tried to enter Egypt and their subsequent release. Was...

Is a British newspaper report of violations against protesters in a military hospital in Cairo defamatory of the Egyptian Armed Forces, justifying hostile official statements? Does it play down...

Surprising things happened in Egypt this week, reminding us that we were on the verge of forgetting about the revolution and opening our eyes to one or two things....

Opposition newspapers in Egypt insist that the Muslim Brotherhood were the ones who opened fire with shotguns during recent protests (yesterday, one newspaper mentioned what it called "The Brotherhood's...