Issandr El Amrani

Egypt has just lived through a period of high anxiety, unexpected political twists and turns, and an ongoing constitutional coup…

Political discourse in Egypt at the best of times can be strange and full of empty talk ("kalam fadi"). But…

To: Mohamed Ibrahim, incoming minister of interiorFrom: A senior ministry officialYour Excellency,

The decision a few days ago by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to appoint Kamal al-Ganzouri as…

Last week, over the Eid break, the celebration and over-eating were marred by the news that Ali al-Selmi, the Deputy…

I’ve spent the last week in Tunis, which has been exhilarating for me, and I think for most Tunisians who…

The visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Cairo this week was probably the peak of a now…

On 29 July, a group of around hundred armed men rode into the town of Arish in northern Sinai on…

I recently returned from a trip to Morocco, where a new constitution proposed by King Mohammed VI has just been…

Let us start with the good news: the unveiling, a few days ago, of a blueprint for what the new…

The recent announcement, much trumpeted by the Muslim Brothers, that they - or more accurately their new party, Freedom and…

For a while, we've been hearing newspaper and television commentators speak, in their usual ominous tones, about various intrigues to…

Tonight, US President Barack Obama will make his first major speech touching on the situation in the Middle East since…

The Fatah-Hamas reconciliation that was inked in Cairo on 4 May is important mainly for Palestinian reasons: For the first…

It is too early to know what the outcome of the 25 January revolution will be. We know that, for…

As Al-Masry Al-Youm’s only non-Egyptian regular columnist, I have the painful but necessary task to highlight how foreigners residing in…

Seeing the images of the storming of the State Security Bastilles in Nasr City, Alexandria, Beheira, Aswan, Siwa and elsewhere,…

Greetings from Athens, the birthplace of democracy, where I have just attended a conference during which Europeans and Americans eyed…

All of us who have been in Egypt over the past few weeks have been privileged to witness a historic…

January 1, 2012 At first, when it began nearly a year ago, many people thought it was just a copycat…