Added on 10/10/2011
Lucy Emmerson
Egypt , Women , Women's issues
LUCY EMMERSON: If you fight back you’re advised to ‘calm down’. The daily harassment of half of Egypt’s population is, however, a serious problem.
Added on 28/09/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Abu Dhabi , Arabic , AUC Press , British Council , Cairo , Denys Johnson-Davies , Egypt , Egyptian Book Organization , Egyptian government , Elias Khoury , Humphrey Davies , Ibrahim Aslan , Israel , Literature , Mahmoud Darwish , Mediterranean , Middle East , Orhan Pamuk , Turkey , Turkish government , United Arab Emirates , United Kingdom
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Unlike most Western governments there is little appetite among any Arab government for the translation and promotion of literature. It’s a great shame.
Added on 15/09/2011
Tabsir
Arab Spring , Bernard Lewis , Democracy , Edward Said , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Europe , Jerusalem , Libya , Middle East , Syria , The Jerusalem Post , Tunisia , Women , Yemen
DANIEL M. VARISCO: Here we go again. ‘Orientalist Historian Takes Warped Freudian View of Entire Arab population.’ Hmm, what about all those women who were in Tahrir Square?
Added on 14/09/2011
James M. Dorsey
Al Ahly , Al Ahly SC , Al Zamalek , Cairo , Cairo stadium , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Egyptian Football Association , Football , Hosni Mubarak , Israel , James M. Dorsey , Jordan , Nanyang Technological University , Nanyang Technological University's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore , Premier League , President , Soccer
JAMES DORSEY: The militant supporters of Al Ahly and Al Zemalek, who were prominent in the 25th January Revolution, were instrumental in the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Cairo.
Added on 31/08/2011
Common Ground News Service
Bikyamasr.com , Cairo , Editor-in-Chief , Education , Egypt , United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
JOSEPH MAYTON, CGNEWS: Sectarian interpretation of the country’s history is a big problem in Egyptian education. An approach that recognises and celebrates the contribution of ‘the Other’ is long overdue.
Added on 27/08/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Ariel Sharon , Army , Camp David , Egypt , Egyptian military , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Hamas , Israel , Israeli military , Lebanon , Ma’an , Mobile Phones , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , President , Red Sea , Ronald Reagan , Secretary of State , Sinai , Sudan , United States , Uri Avnery , Washington
RAMZY BAROUD: Why is Israel bent on discrediting Egypt, exploiting the most sensitive period of its modern history, and destabilizing the border area?
Added on 17/08/2011
Common Ground News Service
Canada , Democracy , Dubai School , Egypt , Facebook , Fatah , International Monetary Fund , Muslim Brotherhood , Social Media , Tunisia , Twitter , United Arab Emirates , United States
MEHRUNISA QAYYUM, CGNEWS: Inspired by Twitter a grassroots Egyptian organisation has set up an online forum that limits participants to 140 seconds air time.
Added on 13/08/2011
Michael J. Totten
Afghanistan , Al Azhar University , Al Qaeda , Army , autocratic President , Cairo , Civil society , Democracy , Editor-in-Chief , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood , Egypt’s Brotherhood , Facebook , Fidel Castro , Free Egypt Party , Gaza , Hamas , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Journalist , Justice Party , Ku Klux Klan , Libya , Mobile Phones , model , Mohamed El-Baradei , Mohammad Adel , Mona , Mubarak's government , Muslim Brotherhood , Omar Suleiman , Osama Bin Laden , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Tahrir Square , Taliban , Turkey , United States , United States government , Washington , West Bank
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: What exactly is the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘game-plan’ for Egypt? One way of finding out is to talk to former loyalists…
Added on 07/08/2011
Michael J. Totten
Anwar Sadat , Armin Rosen , Army , Beirut , Bucharest , Budapest , Cairo , Center for Political and Strategic Studies , Democracy , EGP , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Electricity , Europe , Food and Drink , Free Egypt Party , Gamal Abdel Nasser , head of state , Hizballah , Hosni Mubarak , Israel , Journalist , Lebanon , Middle East , Mohamed Hussein Tantawi , Mohammad Adel , Muslim Brotherhood , Paranoia , Prague , Prime Minister , Salafist , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , Sweden , Syria , Tahrir Square , United States , vice chairman , Wafd , Wafd Party , Zamalek
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: I’ve spent a lot of time with the key players in Egypt’s developing democracy. It’s very clear that the real battle for the country’s – and the region’s – future has just begun.
Added on 07/08/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Egypt , Food and Drink , Literature , Mohamed Salmawy , Ramadan
M. LYNX-QUALEY: So what was on the Ramadan reading list of the great Naguib Mahfouz? A little of what you would expect and a few surprises.
Added on 05/08/2011
Jaco Stoop
Army , Egypt , Egypt Protests , LA Times , Ramadan , Supreme Council , Supreme Council of Armed Forces , Tahrir Square , the LA Times , US Federal Reserve , Youth
JACO STOOP: Demonstrators need to develop a new strategy to achieve their goals. Without grassroots support, demonstrations will not be tolerated
Added on 31/07/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
AUC Press , Edward Said , Egypt , Literature , Poet
M. LYNX-QUALEY: While conducting some ‘centenary research’ I came across the lecture Mahfouz delivered when accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Added on 27/07/2011
Lucy Emmerson
Africa , Egypt , Lina Ben M’henni , Middle East , President , Rights , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , Tahrir Square , Time Magazine , Tunis , Tunisia , Women's issues
LUCY EMMERSON: Now is not the time to let “women’s issues” fall to the back of the agenda; they must not be deprived of the dignity that they have fought for.
Added on 24/07/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Al Masry Al Youm , Crown Prince , Egypt , Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , Humphrey Davies , Literature , Novelist , Poet , Radwa Ashour , Ramallah , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Son of an acclaimed literary family, Tamim al-Barghouti’s ‘weird accent and non-Egyptian features’ seem to be a problem for some in Egypt…
Added on 19/07/2011
David Roberts
Champion’s League , Egypt , Saudi Arabia
DAVID ROBERTS: The phrase ‘believe it when you see it’ applies with significant force to the Saudi-Egyptian causeway. Snow may be seen in Cairo or Jeddah before this particular project begins.
Added on 14/07/2011
David Roberts
Democracy , Doha , Egypt , Egypt Protests , MTV , Mubarak
DAVID ROBERTS: It’s perhaps the cynicism of age but looking back at the early days of the Egyptian revolution there were quite a few of us who raised flags that all wouldn’t be ‘rosy in the garden’.
Added on 11/07/2011
Michael J. Totten
Afghanistan , Beirut , Cairo , Damascus , Democracy , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Iraq , Lebanon , Muslim Brotherhood , Romania , Somalia , Tahrir Square , The Star
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: It’s my first trip back to the ‘Capital of the Arab World’ for a while and though much remains as ever there have been striking changes since the revolution.
Added on 10/07/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Democracy , Egypt , Laila Soliman , Literature , Youssef Rakha
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Egypt’s intellectuals are coming under increasing fire from their own …
Added on 26/06/2011
Sarah Grebowski
Al Qaeda , Democracy , Egypt , Hosni Mubarak , Muslim Brotherhood , Sharia Law
SARAH GREBOWSKI: The extraordinary has become ordinary in Egypt these days. But the conversion of one organisation to democracy demonstrates the speed and scale of transformation.
Added on 16/06/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Cairo , Egypt , Gaza , Hamas , Mohammed Omer , Mubarak , Palestine , Russia , Sinai desert , The New York Times
RAMZY BAROUD: The process of leaving Gaza through the Rafah Crossing to Egypt can only be described as a ‘human lottery’. A deeply unpleasant, humiliating lottery.