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Former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily News Egypt, and currently Media Politics Analyst. He can be followed on Twitter @MaherHamoud1, his public page on Facebook, or email: maher.hamoud1@gmail.com
Two days ago was the 95th anniversary of President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s birth (1918 – 1970). The man who said, “He who cannot support himself, cannot make his own decision,” in his historical attempt to grant Egypt complete independence in its decision making. At any occasion, or even without an occasion, lovers and worshippers of …
Fixing a mud house in the rainy season
For some reason, towards the end of every year I feel emotionally detached from the many wishes and hopes of a happy New Year. I always wonder what difference it would make waking up the following day in a year that has a different digit to the right. However, I still like these good wishes …
The revolutionary have wisely recognised that they have lost the constitution’s battle for the Muslim Brotherhood and it seems that they understand that it is only one of many still ahead. However, they keep blaming it on the voting process manipulation, which is negligible of a deeper failure they have. The talk is so much …
DNE chief editor’s weekly column
On a 40 minute Metro ride from New Marg station to Saad Zaghloul, trying to avoid the traffic jams across the city caused by anti- and pro-Morsy protests, the political discussions among the passengers are revealing. In Cairo’s underground system, in which every carriage is always stuffed with hundreds of average Egyptians, people are constantly …
Morsy with his behaviour and political tactics, is not very different from almost all other political groups in Egypt
Why does commemorating the anniversary of Mohamed Mahmoud massacre hurt? It’s a simple and valid question to ask in trying to better understand the deadly violence that broke out again on the clashes’ first anniversary and put things in context. I believe that what makes such a massacre special and different from other ones committed …
Latvia’s young Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, to the Egyptian youth: Self-organisation by forming political parties, interest groups and NGOs is the solution
Going through Hesham Qandil’s plan for development until 2022 makes you feel that Ahmed Nazif, Mubarak’s prime minister currently imprisoned for corruption charges, was a genius after all. Qandil’s plan is basically jsut an Ikhwanised imitation of the Mubarak-Nazif one. It uses the same language and suggests the same backward thinking. Qandil’s vision of development …
Remember people chanting “Bread, freedom and social justice” twenty months ago? Remember how brilliant it felt summing up all what we needed in a Post-Mubarak Egypt? How does this same and exact slogan feel to your ears now? I guess quite kitsch. Simply, too much shouted and no steps ever taken towards its realisation. Mubarak’s …
Beneath the Belgian chocolate crust
Changing the Munkar by hand
It seems that Morsy has stumbled upon Mubarak’s governance manual somewhere in the presidential palace
Why do they hate the media? And who are they?
If you don’t like it, just don’t watch it!
The current coalition mania is nothing but a continuation of the same strategies that led the country into such political unbalance.
While riding home in a taxi one night last week, a small truck packed with five or more young men in their early twenties was driving in front of us. The exuberant-looking group seemed to be cruising the city while enjoying dinner in the back of their truck. All of a sudden, after they had …
Think twice before you create a monster from your imagination that later becomes real, and reflects the whole of society on the same mirror
What happened might be well described as a subtle military coup within SCAF, initiated and orchestrated by Morsy
Political divergence between those supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and those supporting the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) has reached a peak since President Mohamed Morsy officially came to power. Choosing one side over the other is a political right; however, the justifications for any choice should be legitimate and well-weighed, taking into account future …
Theoretically speaking, we could argue that the one month President Mohamed Morsy has spent in office is not enough to judge his performance as Egypt’s first leader after the revolution. However, practically speaking, it seems enough. Given a few facts regarding Morsy’s attainment of the presidency, we can understand feelings of anger among the electorate, …
There are always hope and dreams, even in the middle of the darkest nights
Women are always to blame for whatever happens to them, in almost every culture and religion
It is a long an incomprehensible messy chess-backgammon game in which we are forced to watch or sometimes play soldiers
It is very difficult to predict how this complicated, multi-layered cold war will play out, given the chaotic scene of Egyptian politics
We don’t let ourselves get stuck with these miserable realities on the ground, simply because we look to the future. Not to the near future, but to the medium- and long-term.
DNE has always been the journalism school that many of today’s Egyptian star writers have graduated from.