By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:23pm EST (Reuters) – The first cinematic output covering protests in Egypt and Tunisia this year recreates the euphoria of revolutions that many thought would never happen, but reveals signs of the conflicts […]
The joke goes that when a security officer once explained to a visiting writer over dinner that Egypt was in reality a police state, a general nearly choked on his drink before correcting him, “good God man, it’s a military dictatorship!” Well, allegedly the Egyptian […]
By Andrew Hammond CAIRO | Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:58am IST (Reuters) – An attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo last week could set back political gains since Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising this year, as the ruling […]
CAIRO (Reuters) – An attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo last week could set back political gains since Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising this year, as the ruling army council takes measures to tighten security around the country. […]
Everyone and their mother is lining up to condemn the protest at the Israeli embassy on Friday night. April 6 is disowning it, suggesting Habib al-Adly and Mubarak thugs and agents provocateurs are behind it. Al-Jazeera’s correspondent Abdulfattah Fayed talked at length […]
Despite all the fears about the future of the Egyptian uprising, the trouble now with Israel over the deaths of Egyptian soldiers highlights one of the major shifts that have taken place since January 25: the new power of the Arab street […]
The Big Speech was rather a non-event from the perspective of most people in the region, I reckon. Obama and his administration were behind the curve when the uprisings broke out. The uprisings were troubling for them because 1. (like the Iranian Revolution in 1979) […]
This piece in the New Left Review tries to make sense of the Arab uprisings but falls into the trap of believing that there is no “anti-imperial” element to the movements. Perry Anderson writes: Notable has been one further absence in the upheaval. […]
Britain’s Foreign Minister Hague thinks the “Arab Spring”, as he just had to call it, is going to be the event of the early 21st century, “greater than either 9/11 or the global financial crisis in 2008” and he compared it to the […]
Abdelbari Atwan, the editor of al-Quds al-Arabi, says the Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf was looking for investments not direct aid handouts during his Gulf tour last week. But while he was received in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, the door was […]