by Khaled Diab Portraits of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and late president Gamal Abdel Nasser are seen on a wall in Cairo [Getty] Egyptians refuse to believe the lie that they are docile sheeple who need a father figure to shepherd them. “I am not pharaoh … After two revolutions, nobody who occupies this […]
A Palestinian woman holds a Turkish flag outside the Turkish Consulate in East Jerusalem, June 1, 2010. (photo by REUTERS/Ammar Awad) Jordan and Turkey are vying for power in Jerusalem, and Turkey appears to be gaining the upper hand at this point. In a clear sign of the decline of the Jordanian role in Jerusalem, Jordan
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gives a news conference on the sidelines of the 69th United Nations General Assembly in regard to a long-term nuclear agreement at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Sept. 26, 2014. (photo by REUTERS/Adrees Latif) Rouhani’s greatest win on the verge of becoming a liability The United States and Iran had
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Followers of Iraq’s Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr shout slogans at Grand Festivities Square within the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, May 1, 2016. (photo by REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani) On the night of April 30, the crowd that stormed the Green Zone gathered in the Great Celebrations Square inside the zone and chanted “Iran Out
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By Peter Oborne Cameron must make a statement apologising to Gani in the House of Commons I had never heard a political lie as squalid as the one told by David Cameron in Prime Minister’s Questions on 20 April – and for which he offered a very belated semi-apology late last
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By Mohamed Abul Ghar Egypt is going through harsh times relative to the economy and international relations. This ordeal is made worse not by an evil scheme, as the president says, but rather by the failure to establish a modern and transparent regime, and the adoption of a regime that grants the president unlimited
The international media has been rife with various stories about a large schism forming between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his prime minister and Justice and Development Party (AKP) head, Ahmet Davutoglu. This comes after sudden news that Davutoglu will be resigning his post as prime minister and will also not seek to contest
By Shahira Amin Egyptian journalists hold a banner during a protest against the interior minister following the arrest of colleagues for covering anti-government demonstrations, outside the Egyptian Press Syndicate in downtown Cairo, April 28, 2016. (photo by REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany) Egypt’s media wars intensify Egypt is deeply polarized, and nowhere are the divisions more evident
