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Published in: HomeEgypt: from revolt to changeA radical overhaul of Egypt’s ruling institutions and personnel is a precondition of the freedom that its citizens...
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Published in: HomeTransition in Egypt: temptations that need to be resisted
The jury is still out on whether the transition will lead to a broad based democracy or to a coalition of sorts in...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat keeps Mubarak on his throne?
Mohammed Hussainy summarises the personalities and forces that prevent Mubarak from standing down.
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Published in: HomeCivil Society in 1989 and 2011
What is happening in Tunisia and Egypt is the completion of the 1989 revolutions. Giving back to us the meaning of...
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Published in: HomeThe politics of fearlessness
While Egypt’s second January Uprising continues it is already clear that Middle Eastern politics will never quite be...
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Published in: HomeMubarak’s Day of Departure?
Updated after Friday prayer Representatives of the regime may have understood that violence will weaken them even...
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Published in: HomeEgypt: how to negotiate the transition. Lessons from Poland and ChinaA comparison of the Polish Round Table and the Tiananmen Tragedy show that non-violent resistance movements need to...
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Published in: HomeA 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...
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Published in: HomeThe global crisis: between Cairo and Davos
The new age of insurgencies of which Egypt is an emblem has its deeper source not in the anger of the marginalised...
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Published in: HomeThe new middle east: intellectuals and democracy
The change that is unfolding across the middle east places an especial responsibility on intellectuals to think...
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Published in: HomeMubarak's Egypt: bad paternalism, and the army's interest in managed transition
Mubarak's Egypt has been a clientelist state with no real goal apart from the exercise of power. Its political...
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Published in: openSecurityMubarak’s thugs make a mockery of media neutrality
Media reporting of today's events in Cairo plays into Mubarak's hands and betrays the journalists risking their...
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Published in: HomeCalling Europe's bluff in north Africa
Europe has taken too little interest in the political path of its southern neighbours, argues Fabrizio Tassinari.
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Published in: HomeThe might of power facing up to the violence of strength - an Arendtian view of politics and revolution
What we are seeing in the Arab world today is the might of collective power in the face of strength, force,...
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Published in: openSecurityEgyptian army declares it will not use force against civilians as protests intensify
Egypt's military maintain ambiguous stance on protests. 99% of southerners vote for independence, according to first...
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Published in: HomeTaking Tea with Torturers
From the Shah of Iran to Egypt’s Mubarak to Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, cozy relationships in US foreign policy...
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Published in: HomeEgypt, and the thirty years of solitude
The epic events in the Arab world’s heartland are also a lesson in the loneliness of power, says Goran Fejic.
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Published in: HomeTunis, Cairo and beyond: susceptible authoritarians may yet really topple, but questions abound
Updated Friday 8am Mubarak's second television address shows that he will fight on and try and turn the tables on...
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Published in: HomeThe middle-east path: towards awakening
The democratic mobilisations in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and elsewhere are lighting a beacon across the middle east and...
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