By Nafeez Ahmed We need a transformation, and it needs to cut across the Muslim and Western worlds, together Islam needs a reformation. This conclusion can only follow logically from a preceding assumption: that Islam is a problem. This has become an increasingly fashionable mantra in the post-9/11 era, especially since the rise…
By Andre Vitchek After my two days marathon discussion with Noam Chomsky, (at MIT in 2012), a bestselling book was born. Later this year a film will hit the cinemas. Noam and I discussed Western imperialism, and the terror it has been spreading around the world. After WWII, at least 50 million lives were…
By Prof George Joffé The outcome of the ‘Arab Spring’ or ‘Arab Awakening’, as many inside the region prefer to call it, has been very different from the original expectations of those who had been involved in the massive popular demonstrations that started it off. Rather than radical or even revolutionary democratic change, to enshrine…
By Shahira Amin Last week’s attack on a lawyer is a symptom of a systematic crisis of police abuse, and the president’s apology is no substitute for reforms President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi apologised to lawyers earlier this week for “the individual act” of a police officer assaulting a lawyer at a police station in the Nile Delta…