Frederick Bowie

Frederick Bowie is an independent journalist. He has spent many years living and working in the Middle East, and was a regular contributor to Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo).

This is our revolution, too

Maybe western leaders are afraid that, having seen what it is like when a people dictate to their government what it should do for them, rather than the reverse, we might start to take our own rights back, wholesale

By Frederick Bowie

/ 21 Feb 2011

A lesson in thuggery: how the security services control Egypt

A one-time Egyptian resident describes the operation of a thuggish security state that controls through everyday brutality. This article was based on conversations with many Egyptians who wished to remain anonymous.

By Frederick Bowie

/ 3 Feb 2011