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Better late than never: how to rebound state fragility in Egypt?
By Abdulla M. Erfan The Fund for Peace recently published the 2014 fragile…
Should Egypt be governed by majority rule or by rule of law?
By Mohammed Nosseir The term ‘majority’ could be a very pleasant one,…
Education: The global antidote to poverty, disease and terrorism
By Dr Cesar Chelala Despite enormous technological advances, humanity continues to grapple…
Football and militant Islam intersect in incidents across the Middle East
By James M. Dorsey A successful football player near the peak of…
The Syrian tunnel and the spring
By Fadi Elhusseini When the first spontaneous explosions of the Arab democratic…
Path to sanity: Political humour in Egypt
By Amr Khalifa “A girl writes she is every Egyptian young man’s…
Reshaping the Middle East: UAE leads the counterrevolution
By James M. Dorsey War planes from oil-rich Gulf states play a…
Signs of rebound in Egypt’s tourism sector
By Robert Tashima The government in Egypt is expecting a recovery of its…
The lie behind the Gaza Reconstruction Conference
By Ricard Gonzalez A good-hearted global citizen would assume that the amount…
The capitalist cure for terrorism
Military might alone won’t defeat Islamic State and its ilk. The US…