Where Are We Headed in the Next 25 Years? Some of the nation's leading figures in politics, religion, human rights, culture, arts and business contemplate Egypt's future HOW TO SUMMARIZE 25 years of Egypt? To capture it in just a few hundred pages? That’s the question we began with six months ago; our answer rest in your hands.
ByPatrick Fitzpatrick, Manal el-Jesri, Azza Khattab, Réhab El-Bakry, Noha El-Hennawy, Yasmin Moll, Rasha Mady, Noha Chakkal, Mirette F. Mabrouk and Rania Al Malky
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Politicians have used religion to gain legitimacy. Extremists have used it to condone murder. And religious institutions have been more than happy to play the power game to win some control of their own. Welcome to 25 years of religious politics in Egypt.
DOES SATAN HAVE a tail and a pitchfork? Do angels really have wings? Does God sit on a throne?
Pluralism at Deaths Door? Twenty-seven years ago, Sadat created the nations political party system. Today, despite the NDPs effort to kickstart a dialogue on reform, the opposition is less effective than ever. Is the ruling party to blame? Or do opposition parties need to own up to some responsibility, too? ByNoha El-Hennawy Read more
Isms of Our Age Some may have become things of the past, but the isms of the post-Revolutionary era have been instrumental in shaping todays political, cultural and intellectual debates ByAzza Khattab Read more
The Saeedis Awake From Islamist violence to new patterns of development, more has happened in Upper Egypt over the past 25 years than one might imagine. But is it ready to take on a more globalized world? ByAbdalla F. Hassan Read more