Tim Parsons

Tim Parsons is a lecturer in policing and criminology at the London Metropolitan University and a former police officer in the City of London Police. His thesis was an analysis of the legacy of Orientalist discourses on contemporary UK security policy. He is a student of Islam and teaches regularly in the United Arab Emirates.

Egypt: a new dawn and a lesson for the west

The downfall of Mubarak and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood might be a sign of democracy finally coming to Egypt, but above all it shows how tragically the west has failed to grasp what is going on in the Middle East.

By Tim Parsons

/ 30 Aug 2012