Latest in Tag: democracy Highlight
Latest in Tag: democracy
Review: Sinai, Morsy’s independence and liberal powers
Although President Morsy has commenced his first trip to China, which will be followed by a unique trip to Iran, most columnists across Egyptian newspapers have not touched upon the presidential trips. Opinion writers commented on the importance of Morsy’s independence from his Islamist group and some have warned against possible occurrences of violence and …
Internal Memo 21581-2012
The army is one of the country’s largest and richest business empires and it is too integral to our economic interests to have it ran this way
Opinion pages kept busy with 24 August protests and Morsy’s visit to Iran
As three days passed after the 24 August anti-Morsy protests were organised, columnists have continued to analyse the repercussions of the demonstrations. Some writers condemned the entire notion, while highlighting angles and reasons of failure, others praised the move describing it as one of the first successful trials of democracy and one of the most …
Bahraini activist denied access to Egypt
Maryam Al-Khawaja denied entrance to Egypt for “Top secret”
Dictatorship through democracy
New emergency law threatens to severely curb freedom
The Heavy Stick of Democracy
By Mohaammed Aly Ibrahim, former editor of the Egyptian Gazette and AlGoumhoria newspapers For decades Egyptians were kept on a tight rein. Our leaders used “democracy” as chewing gum before TV cameras then threw it away upon leaving interviews or press conferences. Either in dictatorship or in the incumbent so-called democracy, the concept of people’s …
A useful idiot
Egyptian political theatre never fails to entertain, and its latest clowns and the sheer absurdity of their demands made for quite a show in these last few weeks. Mohamed Abu Hamed’s call for a “revolution” to end the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood and what he dubbed as the “ikhwanisation of the state” is …
The Mirage State of Egypt
Ladies and Gentlemen, congratulations: you are living in a mirage state
The age of authoritarian democracy
By Sergei Karaganov MOSCOW: The world is currently being shaken by tectonic changes almost too numerous to count: the ongoing economic crisis is accelerating the degradation of international governance and supranational institutions, and both are occurring alongside a massive shift of economic and political power to Asia. Less than a quarter-century after Francis Fukuyama declared “the …