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Articles of the author ABDULMONEM MOSTAFA Al
The battle of will in Syria
Madina Newspaper A YEAR has passed since a spark ignited the Syrian revolution. The Syrian regime has reached a point of no return, the Syrian opposition has remained divided and the world has stood still while the Arab world remains undecided (...)

18 - 03 - 2012
The US and the Syrian crisis
Madina Newspaper The American policy on the Middle East has not changed for over 50 years. It focuses on the stability of the flow of oil, Israeli security and political Islam following the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US. Anyone (...)

11 - 03 - 2012
Caesar longs for the past
Madina Newspaper Nations are like people. They love and hate. And they long for the past. Peoples of nations with long histories are most nostalgic about their past, They cannot separate themselves from their history. In the 21st century, there (...)

04 - 03 - 2012
The complex Mideast situation
Madina Newspaper IRAN is one of the major participants in the political game being played over Syria. It is no coincidence that the Syrian crisis started at the same time as the latest controversy over the Iranian nuclear program. There is a (...)

26 - 02 - 2012
Overview of the regional players
Madina Newspaper THE Syrian crisis is weaved into the complex fabric of Middle Eastern affairs which baffles many political observers outside the region following the Arab Spring that has taken the world by surprise. Nobody could have expected (...)

19 - 02 - 2012
US aid not a good bargaining chip
Madina Newspaper When Alfred Atherton, the then US ambassador to Egypt, invited me and some Egyptian journalists to a dinner organized for Michael Stone, director of the US aid program in Cairo, Stone posed a question: “How can the US win the (...)

12 - 02 - 2012
Move back a bit to see more clearly
Madina Newspaper Where did the Syrian regime get the nerve to crush its own people? Where did the Syrian people get the strength to die as martyrs while resisting and defending themselves against the regime's military might? How did the Arab (...)

05 - 02 - 2012
What do Egyptians celebrate?
Madina Newspaper Why do Egyptians celebrate the anniversary of their revolution on January 25 and not on February 11, the day President Hosni Mubarak stepped down? Why do Tunisians celebrate the first anniversary of their revolution on January (...)

29 - 01 - 2012
Syria: Who pays the bill for change?
Madina Newspaper IT took Hafiz Al-Assad's regime two years and an unprecedented bloody massacre to suppress the opposition 30 years ago in Hama. How much bloodshed will his son, Bashar Al-Assad, an ophthalmologist, carry out to end the revolt (...)

22 - 01 - 2012
A revolution searching for acknowledgment
Madina Newspaper The current debate in Egypt over how to celebrate the first anniversary of the January 25 revolution reflects a social and political dispute within Egyptian society. The dispute is not about how the event should be celebrated but (...)

15 - 01 - 2012
‘Revolution of Doubts' in Egypt
Madina Newspaper Unlike Tunisians who toppled Ben Ali in 21 days, Egyptians were able to topple Hosni Mubarak's regime in 18 days. But there is one thing that makes Egyptians envy the Tunisians, who sparked the first wave of the Arab Spring — the (...)

01 - 01 - 2012
A union of reason, not sentiments
Al Madina Newspaper The political literature in the Arab world nowadays focuses on the ethical motives behind the Saudi initiative for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to move from a phase of cooperation to a phase of union. Although (...)

25 - 12 - 2011
Egypt's Military Council in a box
Madina NewspaperThe movie “Birds of Darkness” showed well-known comedian Adel Imam, as a defender of Mubarak's regime who is in prison trying to catch a ball before his colleague, a defender of Islamist parties, reaches it. But the movie closes with (...)

18 - 12 - 2011
Exodus and the Arab Spring
Madina Newspaper When a Palestinian journalist and I visited one of the largest coffee farms in south India, the owner asked his daughter to show us around. While she was showing us around, she asked us where we came from. My friend told her that (...)

11 - 12 - 2011
An attempt to understand
Madina Newspaper“O Lord! You know all the hidden things, so save us from what we fear.” According to Al-Jabarti, the Egyptian historian, Egyptians used to say this prayer over two hundred years ago whenever Napoleon's soldiers bombarded them with (...)

27 - 11 - 2011
Why the Turkish model wouldn't work
Madina newspaper During the dinner party of Hussein Awni, Turkey's ambassador to Cairo, to honor Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister said he had passed by the Tahrir Square several times during his visit to Egypt. (...)

18 - 09 - 2011
The global mood roadmap
Madina newspaperA FRIEND, who works in media, asked me on Facebook to give him a reasonable explanation of why the world is witnessing revolutions and changes. An editor-of-chief of an English daily and another of a Gulf daily wanted an explanation (...)

21 - 08 - 2011
Ramifications of the Mubarak trial
Madina newspaperIn a phone call during a recent TV show, a member of the Military Council of Egypt protested against the military being described as a proxy acting for the people in running the revolution. The caller, who I think was Brigadier (...)

07 - 08 - 2011
Is the Egyptian revolution a ‘quagmire'?
Madina newspaper Over 35 years ago, I asked late Dr. Fuad Al-Attar, who was an expert in constitutional law, about the difference between a revolution and a coup d'état. “If it succeeds, it's a revolution; if it doesn't, it's a coup d'état,” Dr. (...)

31 - 07 - 2011
Revolution of the ‘Couch' Party
Madina newspaper I received a short text message the other day. The sender wrote “… so what's after all this?” Not knowing the sender, I wondered what ‘this' refers to in the message. A few minutes later came the answer. “Why didn't you answer (...)

25 - 07 - 2011
Tahrir Square: Potholed road to a modern state
Madina newspaper Acolleague, obviously less occupied with what has happened in Sudan after the independence of the Republic of South Sudan and overwhelmed by the return of millions of Egyptians to Tahrir square, asked me “What happened to the (...)

18 - 07 - 2011
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