H.A. Hellyer

Dr H A Hellyer, a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, is a Cairo-based specialist on Arab affairs, and relations between the Muslim world and the west. Fellow at ISPU, he was previously senior practice consultant at Gallup, and senior research fellow at Warwick University. Find him online @hahellyer and www.hahellyer.com .
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My Friend, Bassem Sabry: One of the good people

"Why is it that all the good people die in this country?"…

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Ukraine is Egypt – well, not really

Egyptians know now what it was like to watch the Tahrir Square…

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Preventing terror is a job for all

Earlier this week, a bomb attack on an Egyptian tourist bus took…

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I’m not a journalist – but the least I can do is salute them

“One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand the popular…

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Dogged determination – a more sober Jan25

Three years ago, as a friend of mine puts it, everything seemed…

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The New Year

On New Year’s Day, the Dar al-Ifta’ al-Misriyyah declared that 13 January…

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Egypt has to learn the lesson

It’s almost boring. Earlier this week, Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohammed…

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The Egyptian lobbies

Since the military ouster of Mohammed Morsi, different Egyptian groups have lobbied…

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How many times does Egypt have to do this to get it right?

Three years is not a particularly long time. In fact, in the…

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Let’s kill them all

This time last year, Egyptians were a week away from the disastrous…

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