“Where are the Arab Intellectuals?” and other obsessions that won’t die

by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab Five years into the uprisings that swept the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, protests continue to mark the region’s political climate. While its pioneers Tunisia and Egypt are in some sort of post-revolutionary stage, the capitals of Iraq and Lebanon are being shaken by the tireless work of activists… Read More

The End Of Western ‘Spheres Of Influence’ Death And Fall Of Africa’s Big Men

by Charles Onyango-Obbo ONE OF the biggest mistakes the world has made about Africa over the years, is to work from the position that it is politics is driven by ethnic rage and fear, a simple desire to grab public goodies for one’s family and clan, ignorance, superstition, and an anti-technology culture. I suspect African… Read More

#Egypt, the unravelling

by Yahia Lababidi “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” -Nietzsche Lately, it seems that every time I sit down to write about Egypt, after our revolution, I am under slept and overwhelmed.  Certainly, following yesterday’s horrific massacre, this is no exception.  To date, and if the… Read More