What If Egypt’s Cardinal Problem Is Not Sinai’s Terrorism?
Terrorism has torn Egypt’s Sinai since 2011 and turned it into a military operations area. But what if Egypt’s cardinal problem is not Sinai’s terrorism? Since the group of the…
Despotism Is Not the Solution for Egypt
The assassination of the man in charge of thousands of prosecutions including the controversial death sentences against Muslim Brotherhood followers paved the way for the incumbent Egyptian president for a…
Egyptian Soccer Player Criticizes Al-Sisi in Reflection Of Mounting Discontent
Criticism this week by soccer player Ahmed Al-Merghani of general-turned-president Abdulfattah Al Sisi’s hard-handed repression of dissent and failure to defeat a mushrooming insurgency in the Sinai peninsula signals mounting…
Study in Contrasts: Militaries in Political Transitions in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa
The Economist recently highlighted the contrast between post-revolt Asian societies and Middle Eastern and North African societies in the woes of a prolonged, messy and bloody transition that is pockmarked…
The Reshaping of the Middle East
Battle and bloodshed in a dozen places across the region, a breakdown of law, order and normal existence in large areas, hordes of terrified refugees fleeing from conflict and from…
Unearthly Leaked Recordings of Egypt’s President Are Revealed
Leaked recordings of Egypt’s president speaking about Gulf states can be at least described as un-statesmanlike.
Why Could the Rise of the Islamic State Be a Chance for a Real Reformation of Islam?
Why Could the Rise of the Islamic State Be a Chance for a Real Reformation of Islam?
We Join the Paris Unity Rally but We Embrace a Different Kind of Freedom
Freedom of speech and journalism is dearly embraced in this part of the world demonstrated by the unity rally in Paris, but what’s about the Muslim-majority world, from which several…
Bounded Rationality and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: Maximisation of Self-utility or Public Interest
Bounded Rationality and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: A theoretical overview on how they maximise self-utility versus Public Interest