Articles tagged with: ikhwan
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Wednesday, 13 Mar, 2013
Syria was the first modern Arab state to come into existence and the first Arab republic to elect its president, and it had the first Arab army to procure arms from the Soviet Union. Syria was also the first Arab democracy to elect an Islamist to parliament (Mustapha Al-Sibai in 1947), and the first Arab dictatorship to witness an armed jihadist insurrection (waged by the Fighting Vanguard, 1975–1982).
Syria, then, has something of the pioneering spirit; where its elites have led, o...
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Thursday, 24 May, 2012
Yesterday I paid a courtesy call on Naguib Sawiris, the forlorn face of non-Islamist Egypt.
Naguib is one of three brothers, the sons of a successful Coptic businessman, though he staked out a fortune of his own by taking bets in the telecommunications industry that no one else could stomach. On a table in his office antechamber is a framed photograph of him strolling along a marble corridor with Kim Jong Il, the late dictator of North Korea, where his company installed a cell phone netwo...
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Tuesday, 22 May, 2012
On Saturday I met with Kemal Helbawi, who was an esteemed member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood before he angrily resigned from the group after the toppling of dictator Hosni ...
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Monday, 20 Feb, 2012
In early February, a senior official of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood warned that without a global effort to save Egypt’s troubled economy, the largely peaceful revolution tha...
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Friday, 16 Dec, 2011
Much to the credit of Israeli analysts and politicians, who were arguably the first bunch to predict the revitalizing effects of Arab Spring on political Islam, it is now indisputa...
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Thursday, 1 Dec, 2011
The press conference was set to start at noon, but at one the long table at the front of the tightly packed room remained empty. The cameramen were still jostling to set up their...
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Tuesday, 15 Nov, 2011
The office of Professor Mohammed Morsy does not look like the lair of a man who will soon become one of Egypt’s premier political players.
About 10ft square with a pot pla...
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Monday, 12 Sep, 2011
Moussa’s fame—he has been sung about by Egyptian pop singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim—places him at the top of the list of presidential candidates. In the world of diplomacy an...
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