Posts Tagged ‘ politics ’

The madness of bigotry

By Khaled Diab Anders Breivik’s “paranoid schizophrenia” may have pulled the trigger but he chose his victims through the crosshairs of far-right politics. Monday 5 December 2011 A 243-page psychiatric assessment has concluded that Anders Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who murdered 77 people this summer, was “psychotic” and suffering from “paranoid schizophrenia” during...

Read more »

True people power in Libya

Gaddafi and his corrupt 'jamahiriya' may be gone, but Libyans should not give up on the dream of a direct democracy for the masses.

Read more »

Hungary for a better future?

Hungary for a better future?

Faced with soaring unemployment and the lack of prospects, many educated young Hungarians are being drawn to the radical right. But will it give them the better future they seek?

Read more »

Rejected by the right, Western Muslims are only left with the left

No Muslim in their right mind would support far-right Christian groups in the West, though they may well symathise with their Muslim equivalents elsewhere.

Read more »

From right to far-right in Spain

Why is there no prominent far-right party in Spain? Well, there is and there isn't.

Read more »

Which comes first: Palestine or the Palestinians?

Rather than grant them statehood, Palestinian plans to go to the UN could backfire. Instead, come September, the Palestinians should formally hand over control of the Occupied Territories to Israel and demand full citizenship.

Read more »

Freedom from fear

The Egyptian revolution could usher in freedom to the Middle East, but Arabs and Israelis must break free of the chains of prejudice, history and fear.

Read more »

The death throes of Arab dictatorships

Will the unfolding popular revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt lead to the region’s dictators falling one after the other like dominos?

Read more »

The mother of all clashes

By Osama Diab  It’s true that football divides Egyptians today, but it also, paradoxically, unites them on so many other levels. 30 December 2010 Today, once again, Egypt will be divided, but this time not based on sectarian tension between Muslims and Copts or political rivalry between the government and the opposition, but between supporters...

Read more »

The rise of far-right politics on both sides of the Atlantic

On KALW's weekly media round table, Khaled Diab took part in a radio debate on the rise of far-right politics on both sides of the Atlantic.

Read more »

Subscribe to Chronikler.com

Subscribe
3463 feed subscribers

Blog Rating

8.8

Egypt@al-Masry al-Youm

Latest Egyptian news from al-Masry al-Youm