Tag Archives: Egypt

Egypt, orientalism and media simplicity

Nureddin Sabir highlights an enlightening analysis by writer and broadcaster Magdi Abdelhadi which examines the reasons behind Western official and media bias in favour of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood cult.

Egypt’s destruction of Gaza’s tunnels

Egypt’s closure of the tunnels between Sinai and Gaza has nothing to do with the Israeli siege but is the result of rogue Islamists in Gaza smuggling arms to jihadists in Sinai.

What Egyptians think about the dispersal of Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins

So much has been spoken and written

Lifting the mist on the Egyptian crisis

Nureddin Sabir explains why the arguments most commonly deployed by the Western media and various leftists, liberals and right wingers regarding the Egyptian crisis do not stand up to scrutiny.

Remembering what the bloodshed in Egypt is about

Everyone who cares for Egypt is stunned

Syria, Egypt and the grand dilemma

Uri Avnery says the choice of who deserves moral support in Egypt and especially in Syria may no longer be between black and white or shades of grey but shades of black.

Egypt and the compatibility of Islamism and democracy

Here’s an extract from an excellent

The 1979 Egyptian-Israeli treaty of humiliation

Someone recently asked how can any

Egypt’s no-win dilemma

Amid the fast-moving developments

The Achilles’ heel of the peoples’ revolutions

Uri Avnery explains why the popular uprisings sweeping across the world, from Brazil to Egypt and Turkey, are in danger of of fading away without leaving anything behind, except some memories.