by Abdel Monem Said | Dec 22, 2012 | Opinion
It may be inappropriate for me to neglect the situation in Egypt, in terms of the referendum and the state of social polarization which has reached its peak, to focus on another issue that many people have perhaps grown weary of, namely the ouster of Bashar al-Assad....
by Abdel Monem Said | Dec 13, 2012 | Opinion
Throughout the last two centuries Cairo has been a source of many lessons for the Arab world, and the region around it. These lessons have not always been pleasant or “progressive”, but in every case they have proven useful both positively and negatively. Negatively...
by Abdel Monem Said | Aug 24, 2012 | Opinion
A few days before Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi – the former Egyptian Minister of Defense, General Commander of the Army and chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces [SCAF] – along with a large number of SCAF members was ordered into...
by Abdel Monem Said | Jun 29, 2012 | Opinion
Last week was full of strange occurrences, and not only for my generation. It was a week full of astonishment; something which the word “surprise” cannot even describe. The week began on the 16th June; a very hot and humid day, or to put it bluntly, a day...
by Abdel Monem Said | Jun 13, 2012 | Opinion
It is never easy to change a society and state after six thousand years of Pharonic rule, which has seen many forms and has been led by both Egyptians and foreigners, but there has always been one thing at its heart, namely tyranny. It was previously thought that the...
