Opinion

Newspapers reported on Monday that most of the seats in Cairo University’s student union election were won without contest as…

There’s an unusually virulent strand of political surrealism surging through Egypt at the moment. I stress “unusually” because there is…

The Muslim Brotherhood has the most problematic political discourse in Egypt. They insist on upholding a religious slogan, “Islam is…

The late journalist Magdi Mehanna used to say that Gamal Mubarak has made himself into an object of guesswork. His…

Electoral deals are agreements made between political parties prior to an election with the aim of winning more votes or…

The US Senate proposed a bill over a week ago that calls on the United States to pressure the Egyptian…

A characteristic of a global hegemon is its ability to exert influence and control beyond its geographic borders and natural…

International observers are for newly independent states without the institutions needed to run elections--unlike Egypt--according to Moqbel Shaker, vice chairman…

A few months ago I was told by a well known media personality who works for Egyptian state television and…

It’s been instructive to watch how China has reacted to the Nobel Committee’s decision to award Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo…