Many and no words: Samir Halawa (1956-2014)
You refused to abandon the youth when they were being gassed and murdered, while others had nothing but words of condemnation for them — thugs, hooligans, whatever they said of them
You refused to abandon the youth when they were being gassed and murdered, while others had nothing but words of condemnation for them — thugs, hooligans, whatever they said of them
Aspirations for freedom, prosperity and dignity, and the impossibility of achieving development without democracy and liberty, drive change
The problem with the avant-gardists is that they take their legitimacy from themselves. In a democratic state legitimacy is borne from elections
We do not understand why those who are against dictatorship and foreign intervention are not patriots to Arab intellectuals
That the Egyptian revolution was born in the street does not mean it is merely a conspiracy of Facebook
The general Libyan youth uprising expresses the hollowness of Gaddafi’s regime,.to which he responds by force
While millions across the world watched the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, no one is watching the people’s uprising in Iraq
The Arab Spring of democracy has already brought to flower new practices of liberty in public space
In Arab countries, the model of globalisation consisted of abandoning the Arab-Muslim character of the state and notion of the national state
In one magnificent act, Muntadhar Al-Zaidi epitomized the truth of the defeat of the US in Iraq