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The Future of Tyranny!

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,...

A naive understanding of Saudi Arabia

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...

Egypt’s future is uncertain and troubling

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 These ballots had been replaced by forged papers, or ones that had been marked in advance with a “yes.”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...

Egypt: before a solution is imposed from abroad!

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...

Six Signs for the Forthcoming Washington Negotiations

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...