by Mamoun Fandy | Nov 9, 2011 | Opinion
Many people both in our region and outside it talk about the future of democracy after the “Arab Spring”, despite the fact that what is important for our region is the future and fate of tyranny, rather than the future of democracy. For us, democracy is an illusion,...
by Mamoun Fandy | Oct 31, 2011 | Opinion
In the January/February 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Dr Michael Doran, formerly of Princeton University who later became responsible for Middle East policy at the White House under the George W Bush Administration, wrote about what he described as “The...
by Mamoun Fandy | Mar 23, 2011 | Opinion
In Rabiah al-Adawiyah Mosque in Nasr City, a passer-by found discarded referendum ballots, after citizens had registered their votes on them. These ballots had been replaced by forged papers, or ones that had been marked in advance with a “yes.” This means...
by Mamoun Fandy | Feb 9, 2011 | Opinion
The legitimacy of the ruling regime in Egypt is eroding from within. Only one legitimate establishment – the Egyptian army and its history that enjoys the pride and respect of all the Egyptians – remains in the country that is acceptable to the two sides...
by Mamoun Fandy | Aug 25, 2010 | Opinion
When the US President, through his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, invites the Israelis and the Palestinians to hold direct negotiations under the auspices of the United States, and the International Quartet (of the EU, Russia, the United States, and the United...