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Ali Eddin Helal, media secretary for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), affirmed three days ago that the NDP would nominate President Hosni Mubarak in next year’s presidential race. Helal’s statements have sparked controversy as...
The Muslim Brotherhood has the most problematic political discourse in Egypt. They insist on upholding a religious slogan, “Islam is the Solution”, and they don't comply with existing laws that govern electoral competition. They'...
Sectarian tensions are mounting. The once muted conflict is fast developing into an openly declared one, with accusations being openly exchanged between Muslims and Copts. Still, some insist that sectarian incidents are limited, and that national...
Since the 1990s, the Fund for Peace, an American non-profit research organization has been publishing a “failed states" index that measures the performance of sovereign governments around the world. Some attributes of failed states...
A visitor who stays at your home for an hour, a day or even an entire year is a guest. But the description is much less fitting for someone who has stayed for 14 centuries.
This is how Father Bishoy, secretary of the Coptic Ecclesiastical...
Gamal Mubarak’s presidential campaign has recently moved from covert planning to public mobilization, with posters and petitions in support of the president’s son aggressively filling the streets.
If presidential elections took place...
The widely viewed TV drama Al-Gamaa, which follows the life of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan el-Banna, has sparked fierce controversy since it started airing at the beginning of Ramadan. The conflict has escalated to the point where al-Banna...
Gamal Mubarak met with Egyptian university students last week, fielding questions and comments about a range of sensitive issues: corruption, accountability and his possible inheritance of power from Mubarak the father.
The event was impressive. It...
The Egyptian press recently reported that President Mubarak will soon inaugurate the new Saft el-Laban corridor, connecting Cairo University to the ring road and outer edges of Giza. The corridor, which took 22 months to complete, is intended to...
Many Egyptians long for the days of the monarchy and mourn the loss of refined sensibilities associated with a cultured and cosmopolitan aristocracy ruled that ruled the country before the 1952 revolution. They compare that era to the present, in...