Tag: Egypt

Many and no words: Samir Halawa (1956-2014)

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

15 February 2014 More
Egypt’s revolution searching for its path

Egypt’s revolution searching for its path

The problem with the avant-gardists is that they take their legitimacy from themselves. In a democratic state legitimacy is borne from elections

29 January 2012 More
Tahrir 12 months down

Tahrir 12 months down

A year into the revolution, much has changed, but more hasn’t — at least yet

25 January 2012 More
Arab intellectuals in doubt

Arab intellectuals in doubt

We do not understand why those who are against dictatorship and foreign intervention are not patriots to Arab intellectuals

20 October 2011 More
9/11: Ten years of lies, but the walls are coming down

9/11: Ten years of lies, but the walls are coming down

One day, and it may be soon, the truth about 11 September 2001 will start to appear. Cracks have already opened. We are coming into a time of truth

11 September 2011 More
Tasks and difficulties ahead of the Arab revolution

Tasks and difficulties ahead of the Arab revolution

That the Egyptian revolution was born in the street does not mean it is merely a conspiracy of Facebook

1 May 2011 More
Egypt: Only democracy is legitimate

Egypt: Only democracy is legitimate

The Arab Spring of democracy has already brought to flower new practices of liberty in public space

12 February 2011 More
The Arab Spring of democracy

The Arab Spring of democracy

In Arab countries, the model of globalisation consisted of abandoning the Arab-Muslim character of the state and notion of the national state

18 January 2011 More
We negate and we must negate because something in us wants to live and affirm — Friedrich Nietzsche