Opinion

Who determines Egypt’s foreign policy? Is it the Foreign Ministry or the General Intelligence Service, or both? I pose this…

Last Tuesday, an unusual meeting took place at the National Security Council (NSC), the body that advises US President Barack…

US President Barack Obama’s choice of Cairo as the place to give his historic speech to the Islamic world in…

Last week, Al-Qaeda militants in Iraq threatened to attack Egypt’s Coptic minority in the wake of a massacre at a…

The Muslim Brotherhood has stuck with its well-known slogan "Islam is the solution" for nearly a quarter of a century.…

A number of Egyptian and Arab satellite channels have been playing a destructive role in our society, threatening our national…

Among the intriguing scenes playing out in the lead-up to the 28 November parliamentary elections has been the throngs of…

For decades, the Egyptian economy was managed in the same manner that a taxi driver managed his vehicle. The taxi--let’s…

On 15 April, 2004, 2nd Lieutenant Ilario Pantano, a 32-year-old US marine, stopped and detained two Iraqis driving on a…

Just two months ahead of parliamentary elections in Egypt, a foreign visitor might have reasonably concluded from a perusal of…