Archive for 'Egypt'
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Tour d’horizon: An Iranian optic on the Middle East and its prospects
Written by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran, exclusively for Conflicts Forum.
Almost a year ago, in a well-remembered Friday prayer sermon delivered on February 4, 2011, Ayatollah Khamenei spoke at length, in Arabic, about the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. At the time, the Egyptian people were on the streets attempting to topple the Western-backed […]
Posted: January 6th, 2012 under Egypt, Iran, Middle East, Obama administration, POLICY PAPERS, Political Islam.
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Islamic Visions of the Outcome of the Recent Arab Revolutions
The second Policy Paper written by Sheikh Chafiq Jaradi, General Director of the Institute of Sapiential Knowledge in Beirut, exclusively for Conflicts Forum.
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Posted: April 11th, 2011 under Democracy, Diplomacy, Egypt, Islam and globalization, Islamists, Middle East, POLICY PAPERS.
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After the Israeli flotilla incident, Turkey is the new Palestinian champion
Alastair Crooke
Article first published on The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times
June 3, 2010
Beirut, Lebanon
“This is language that we have not heard since the time of Gamal Abdul Nasser.” Thus wrote the influential chief editor of Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fiery response to the Israeli […]
Posted: June 11th, 2010 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians.
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Arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, March 4, 2008
I woke up on Wednesday February 20th on the news of the arrest of Khaled Hamza Salam, IkhwanWeb.com co-editor in chief. I was on a short visit to Egypt and had met Hamza on Tuesday night, where we went over several contentious issues including the ongoing military […]
Posted: March 4th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam.
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Crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, February 25, 2008
Those who believe that the ongoing crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Egyptian regime will cause a major setback for the country’s largest and most powerful civil opposition group are definitely mistaken. Brotherhood members are an integral living part of the Egyptian society who can never […]
Posted: February 25th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Democracy, Egypt, Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam.
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From Secularism to Jihad: Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism
From Secularism to Jihad: Sayyid Qutb and the Foundations of Radical Islamism by Adnan Musallam - a review by Alastair Crooke, Journal of Islamic Studies (Vol 18, Number 3), Oxford University Press, September, 2007
On the face of it an unlikely figure—here was a middle-class intellectual Egyptian from a traditional village background of waning family fortunes; […]
Posted: October 14th, 2007 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Islam.
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