by Mahmud El Shafey | Apr 25, 2014 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Egyptian military announced on Thursday that it had eliminated “terrorism” from the restive Sinai Peninsula, contradicting statements made the same day by interim president Adly Mansour slamming terrorism in the same region and calling for...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 26, 2013 | Opinion
In the first two weeks of Ramadan, 1,262 Syrians were killed. The news did not make headlines and people were not agitated. This makes us wonder if what’s happening in Cairo has killed the Syrian revolution or if the latter is fading into the background, similar to...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 3, 2013 | Opinion
It is unlikely that we are seeing in Egypt that which we have seen in Pakistan; generals seizing power at every national political crisis. No more generals will rule Egypt. Even former presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar al-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak engaged in civil...
by Tariq Alhomayed | Jul 1, 2013 | Opinion
Whatever the repercussions of today’s events in Egypt, history will write that the current president, Dr Mohamed Mursi, was unable to save either himself, the Muslim Brotherhood or Egypt. It will do so in the same way that history books tell of how the former...
by Mohamed Abdu Hassanein | Mar 6, 2013 | Interviews
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the date of the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Egypt grows, President Mursi’s opponents are coming under more and more pressure to take part, backing away from their decision to boycott the poll. Asharq Al-Awsat spoke to one of the...
