By Dr Ronald Meinardus After nearly eight years at the helm of the Cairo Office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF), Germany’s liberal think tank, Dr Ronald Meinardus, who has on and off contributed also to the editorial page of this newspaper, is leaving Egypt shortly. Following is the third and last part …
By Ronald Meinardus After nearly eight years at the helm of the Cairo Office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF), Germany’s liberal think tank, Dr. Ronald Meinardus, who has on and off contributed also to the editorial page of this newspaper, is leaving Egypt shortly. What follows is the second installment of a …
By Dr. Ronald Meinardus CAIRO: Egypt’s revolutionaries of the first hour are looking back at the early days of the uprising with a sense of nostalgia, when Cairo’s Tahrir Square had become the political center not only of Egypt but the whole world. Half a year later, a sense of disappointment and letdown has gripped many …
By Dr. Ronald Meinardus Liberalism in one of the four political mainstreams in Egypt. The others are nationalism, socialism and Islamism. As would be expected in a democratic system, to which this country is morphing, political parties mirror these ideological camps. In the liberal camp, the party with the big tradition is the Wafd, which played …
