If Mubarak Leaves: The Role of the Egyptian Military
It is tempting to rush to judgment about the role the Egyptian military will play if Mubarak really does leave. The truth is that even the senior military now at the top of the power structure under...
View ArticleIt’s The Economy, Stupid
“It was like being on the Hajj in Mecca”, exclaimed Emad Gad (a friend) gathered in Tahrir Square, Cairo, as the protests against Hosni Mubarak reached a deafening crescendo in the first week of...
View ArticleA revolution in 140 characters
Egypt has disposed of its dictator, soon after Tunisia handed out similar treatment to its own. The dizzying pace of these developments left many too shocked to comment, even as journalists scrambled...
View ArticleOil and Unrest
With political unrest spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, 2011 might turn out to be as momentous a year for the global geopolitics of oil as was 1971. Many of the factors behind the...
View ArticleWhy China is wary of Middle-East uprisings
The Mandarins in China are warily watching the unfolding of popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain, Lebanon, Libya and other countries. For, while China had scuttled popular outpouring a...
View ArticleWill Kashmir see an Egypt-like uprising?
It does seem that the interlocutors have completed all that they could in Jammu and Kashmir. The recent outburst by them against the separatist leaders is indicative of not just frustration, but...
View ArticleTrue sovereignty is what Arabs are after
Events are moving so quickly in the citizen revolts across the Arab world that an observer could easily feel lost trying to understand what is really happening – or just trying to sort out the new and...
View ArticleReal battle in Egypt is not on the streets
Cairo – On 3 February I walked around my downtown Cairo neighbourhood to see how the latest street battles were proceeding. They began again (for the third time in as many months) following a 1...
View ArticleEgypt: What next?
Cairo – Regardless of whether 3 July was a revolution or a coup d’état against Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, the scene of millions of Egyptians taking to streets on 30...
View Article50 elections in 2014: a year of democracy
The year 2014 will see at least 50 significant national, local and institutional elections around the world, strengthening the momentum for a global shift towards democratic political transformations....
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