C'est leur démocratie, les élections. Mais la démocratie ce ne sont pas juste des élections. Il faut d'abord changer le système, pour qu'il soit plus (...)
Guardian 25Dec 2013 "Hossam Eissa, the minister of higher education, read out the cabinet statement after a long meeting, saying: "The cabinet has declared the Muslim Brotherhood group and its organisation as a terrorist organisation." He said the decision was in response to Tuesday's deadly suicide bombing targeting a police headquarters in a Nile Delta city which killed 16 people and wounded more than 100. The Brotherhood has denied being responsible for the Mansoura attack, for which an al-Qaida inspired group has claimed responsibility.
guardian, Editorial 25.12.13: Governments reap what they sow. Tuesday's bombing of a police headquarters in Mansoura was followed by a declaration by the Egyptian cabinet that the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organisation. It is not at all established that the Brotherhood was responsible. But Mansoura shows what happens when legitimate political expression ceases to be possible. The revolution decapitated the Egyptian security state, based on the army, the police and the business elite, by removing Mubarak. But it has grown a new head, and it is now back, quite literally, with a vengeance.
Another story of activists being arrested. "..there is no evidence that Iran created the ring, let alone micromanaged it, and it isn't at all clear that a newly unquiet Suez Canal would be in the mullahs' interests." Amotz Asa-El, who is a former executi
In his first official visit to Russia after being inaugurated on June 8, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi reached deals Tuesday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to create a free trade zone with Eurasian countries and a Russian industrial zone in Egypt.
Wikipedia: "Akemeniderna (fornpersiska: Hakhāmanishiya) var en persisk dynasti. Namnet ”akemenid” syftar på grundarklanen (enligt traditionen uppkallad efter en ättefader vid namn Achaimenes), som runt 556 f.Kr. under Kyros den store befriade sig från medernas rike, såväl som på det stora imperium som blev följden av sammansmältningen av de två. Akemenidernas rike är det första av de persiska imperier som härskade över en stor del av Mellanöstern. Det sträckte sig åt norr och åt väster till Mindre Asien, till Thrakien och större delen av kustområdena vid Svarta havet, i öster ända till nuvarande Afghanistan och en del av nuvarande Pakistan, och åt söder och sydväst till nuvarande Irak, Syrien, Egypten, norra Saudiarabien, Jordanien, Israel, Libanon och bort till norra Libyen. Det imperium som grundades av akemeniderna hotade två gånger Antikens Grekland, erövrade Egypten och fick sitt slut år 330 f.Kr., då Dareios III dukade under för Alexander den store." Persepolis-Susa-Babylon
The demonstrators in the Arab streets did not chant revolutionary slogans; they did not ask for arms or call for “resistance”. They chanted instead: “peaceful, peaceful”. The mood of young Arab people differed entirely from those of previous decades. This
"Despite a glorification of the Egyptian revolution as a “non-violent” one, violence has been a part of the uprising since the first stone was thrown." by Philip Rizk on April 7, 2013
The correct question is: “Now that a popular uprising has resulted in Morsi's downfall, will the Egyptian people, whether they are against or for the Muslim Brotherhood, manage to bring down the military regime?”
Jonathan Steele 3 July: "Rejecting the results of elections that were widely deemed to be free and fair and setting aside a country's basic law is a step that no army should ever take. The fact that the army's move has been welcomed by many of the revolutionaries who first had the courage to go into the streets against Mubarak in 2011 is a desperate commentary on their political naivety and shortsightedness."
The Muslim Brothers embrace the same neoliberal policies favored by the Mubarak regime and, if anything, envision an even more expansive program of privatization of public assets. The Brothers’ leadership also has a history of opposing militant labor action. Some Brothers who happen to work in industrial or clerical jobs have been more sympathetic to local workers’ issues. But they have not received support from the Guidance Bureau, which directs the organization and presumably has strong influence over the positions of the Mursi government. Since Mursi assumed office, physical and legal attacks on trade union activists have increased. Hundreds of workers have been fired for trade union activities and thugs have beaten many others. In September 2012 an Alexandria court sentenced five union leaders at the Alexandria Port Containers Company to three years in jail for leading a strike of 600 workers in October 2011. [2] This sentence is the harshest for a striker since the era of President Anwar al-Sadat. The case is under appeal.
CAIRO, Aug 20 (IPS) - The spectre of a U.S. nuclear umbrella for the Middle East haunted the U.S.- Egyptian summit this week. In the run-up to President Hosni Mubarak's first Washington visit in five years, both the Egyptian leader and his senior aides ca
The preliminary results show that Ahmed Shafiq, a former Air Force general who served as prime minister under Mubarak, apparently claimed one of two top spots in the first round of voting. The other was won by Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohamed Morsi, who received the most votes in the 13-person field. Friday afternoon Morsi was in the lead with 26 percent, Shafiq with 23 percent and the leftist Sabbahi with 20 percent.
Hidden energy crisis in the Middle EastBy Victor Kotsev TEL AVIV - While most of the world is preoccupied with the impact of instability in the Middle East on oil prices and the world economy, a different kind of energy crisis is unfolding practically un
"This, now, is the real War on Terror. But this time it will be led from inside the Middle East, gain universal support and change the regional political balance of power for generations to come." Sharmine Narwani is a commentary writer and political analyst covering the Middle East. You can follow Sharmine on twitter @snarwani.
Hesham Bahari. "Marknadsanpassade religiösa och ideologiska reliker från det förflutna är en del av det realpolitiska spel som ser till att rika blir allt rikare och fattiga allt fattigare. Det är mot detta spel som miljontals människor i arabvärlden nu r