Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah, the global phenomenon is known as nothing short of a victor! His on-field competencies are par excellence as his versatility is demonstrated in every game that he plays. There is not much that Salah cannot do! He is a brilliant tactical player with astounding speed and ball control. His position as […]

The 17 years of controversy that followed the 2002 introduction of the law that regulated the NGOs in the nation of Egypt. Although the draft has not been made public, president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has announced that changes will be introduced to the existing law and named Ghada Wally, the Minister of Social Solidarity in [...]

Egypt has had many reigns over it and a very dynamic pool of societies. Many factors influence the politics in this region as such being religious ideologies, militarism and aspects of democracy. In the recent years the political scene in Egypt has erupted into a number of social revolts and campaigns. In 2011 the country […]

The “United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization” (UNESCO) was recognized in 1946 to subsidize to reconciliation and security by endorsing alliance among nations through education, science and culture in mandate to further universal esteem for justice, for the instruction of law and for the human privileges and fundamental freedoms which are acknowledged for the […]

There are two views that can be inferred from the torrential analysis of trends of democracy in the Middle East. One of them is that the push that was led by President Bush in trying to democratize the region is ultimately paying up. The Middle East can be seen to be on a democratic path [...]

Egypt’s transition is best described by going through the more than one hundred metaphors that fill Cairo. The metaphors are incoherent and fragmented, meaning that Egypt has come a long way before becoming the nation it is today. Egypt has a looming revolution that can be seen from the way its citizens react, and the [...]

After the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, many nations have been leading the democratization of Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. Civil society has played such a critical role in Latin America and Eastern Europe, bringing hope that even other countries can successfully transition to democracy even if they are [...]

The promotion of democracy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is aimed at encouraging the non-governmental and governmental actors in the area to foster reforms in the political field so as to attain democratic governance. The Middle East and North Africa Region is dear to the American nation even though it has continuously [...]

It has always been thought that the countries in the Arab region were on the edge. This actually turns out to be true. They actually are. The people who thought that the autocracies in Arabic countries would last for decades were actually wrong. The proof of this is the recent Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions. In [...]

Let’s go back to July 2011. Time and again, thousands of protesters have filled the Tahrir Square in Cairo. The protesters are not here to demand the downfall of a certain regime. They are here because of a promise that of a looming revolution, and the said revolution did not bear desirable fruits. The demonstrators [...]