The Arab Spring Failed But Rage Against Misery and Injustice Continues

February 20, 2021

Ten years ago, people across the Middle East and North Africa rose up in protest against their rulers, demanding freedom and democracy. Despotic rulers were toppled or feared that power was being torn…

Egypt Assumes an Active Role in the Middle East

February 17, 2021

Opinion

Recent events and Cairo’s policy in this context clearly show that Egypt is steadily reclaiming its major role in the Middle East, not as a tool in the hands of the US and Israel, but as it was before…

Libya’s Surprise Election Is Bad News for Meddling Powers

February 14, 2021

Opinion

A strange thing happened on Friday outside Geneva, not a city you would nowadays associate with progress in the Middle East. The internationally favoured candidates for an interim government in L…

Egypt’s Search for a Fig Leaf: It’s Not the Handball World Championship

January 20, 2021

Opinion

Hosting major sports tournaments can confer prestige on a country, but in the case of Egypt, the 2021 Handball World Championship will do little to repair its relations with the US, Italy and states i…

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project (GERD) and the Quest for African Unity

December 29, 2020

Opinion

Since November 4, the focus of the international community in their observations of the internal conflict in Ethiopia has largely been centered on the central government’s suppression of a rebellion a…

What Happened to the Global Uprisings of a Decade Ago?

December 24, 2020

Opinion

A decade has now slipped by since a man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid on Dec. 17, 2010. Bouazizi, a street vendor, took this extreme step after policem…

Two Deep Mysteries of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

October 25, 2020

History

Forty-seven years ago, Egypt and Syria launched a massive surprise attack on Israeli forces dug into fortifications along the Suez Canal and Golan Heights. The ‘limited’ Arab objective was to recaptur…

The Confrontation in the Eastern Mediterranean is Not Subsiding

October 21, 2020

Opinion

The standoff taking place in the Eastern Mediterranean, despite attempts on the part of the international community to reduce its intensity, is unfortunately not calming down. In the beginning, in Sep…