Sunday 23rd February marked the 33rd anniversary of what Spanish people call ’23-F’. Just five years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the country was slowly transitioning towards democracy. But on the 2...
Cairo has so far been spared the same fate as Damascus, but sure enough, the sounds of fireworks and jubilant crowds that greeted the coup of July 3rd have now been replaced by the grimmer sounds of sirens and gunfire across E...
We in the West can all too easily believe that every Muslim wishes to kill in the name of religion. The protests that have swept across the Muslim world over the past several days are nothing to do with the inflammatory anti-Is...
Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood senior member, is no longer the president of Egypt. Morsi’s one-year reign was cut short, after massive protests across Egypt calling for him to resign started on June 30. Head of the...
“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for” (Ernest Hemingway) Throughout history, the Sinai Peninsula has served as a bridge between Africa and Asia. This same region was, according to biblical tradition, where Mose...
The latest military coup to oust the democratically elected President Morsi has throw Egypt back into turmoil. But why has this happened and why are the west reacting, on the face of it, quite pacifist to such events? These q...
The past weeks may have erased in part the legacy of the hard-fought Egyptian revolution of 2011. The decision by the Egyptian judiciary to clear the former president Hosni Mubarak and members of his regime of the deaths of 846...
Even though President Obama has been enjoying his holidays in Hawaii, he will most certainly have been thinking about his past and future decisions. Without a doubt, the Middle East will figure prominently among his list of key...
What have we learned from the Egyptian revolutions? Yes, Mubarak was a dictator and taking down his regime was the ‘right thing to do’, but, countries surely do not fix themselves overnight. Two years after the first revolu...