The paradox of military-backed civilian rule
Supporting a military dictatorship to impose secular ideals is paradoxical and will only perpetuate and entrench the deep state in Egypt.
Read MoreSupporting a military dictatorship to impose secular ideals is paradoxical and will only perpetuate and entrench the deep state in Egypt.
Read MoreReturning to Egypt for the first time since the revolution, an expat desktop rebel discovers the inspirational, the troubling and the simply bizarre.
Read MoreDespite the general Arab decline in the press freedom rankings, the region’s media have, in many ways, actually become freer.
Read MoreFundamentalists in America and Egypt are obsessed with “virtue “and “vice”. But the rise of Islamists threatens to bind Egyptian women in a moral vice.
Read MoreIslamists are not all Osama bin Laden and secularists are not all Atatürk . They can work together to achieve democracy.
Read MoreThe army is giving Egyptians a stark choice: choose freedom and endure anarchy, or choose stability and put up with us.
Read MoreOn the 10th anniversary of the day after 9/11, it is high time to trash the ‘clash of civilisations’ theory and the ‘war on terror’ and start a new chapter in the West’s relationship with the new Middle East.
Read MoreBritain’s former foreign minister David Miliband has high hopes for the Arab revolutions.
Read More“You won’t fool the children of the revolution.” Especially not if they’re Twittering away on their mobile phones.
Read MoreThe revolution in Egypt succeeded because it had no Islamist face, and the Muslim Brotherhood has benefited from maintaining a soft presence.
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