Archivo etiqueta «Egipto»
By Timothy Garton Ash (THE GUARDIAN, 01/03/07):
In a poor quarter of Cairo, down narrow dirt roads in which goats feed on scraps, I am taken to the bare, crowded but carefully kept apartment of a friendly greengrocer, whose extended family sleeps four or five to a room. He introduces me to his numerous nieces and nephews, and finally to a grinning tousle-haired boy called Usama. Usama is three years old, so our conversation is not extensive, but he has stuck in my mind ever since.
One way of thinking about the future of the Arab world, and what we … Seguir leyendo
By Raja M. Kamal, associate dean for resource development at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and Tom G. Palmer, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and director of the Byrne Project on Middle East Liberty (THE WASHINGTON POST, 21/02/07):
A former college student, Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, is sitting in an Egyptian prison, awaiting sentencing tomorrow. His alleged “crime”: expressing his opinions on a blog. His mistake: having the courage to do so under his own name.
Soliman, 22, was expelled from Al-Azhar University last spring for sharply criticizing the university’s rigid … Seguir leyendo
By Jackson Diehl (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/01/07):
Eleven months ago Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to report on their talks in Cairo. After Aboul Gheit summed up the topics, Rice pointed out that he had forgotten one: “Iran. You missed Iran.” She then spent most of her time on Egypt’s progress — or lack of it — “as it faces questions of democracy and reform.”
Last week Aboul Gheit and Rice again appeared side by side, this time in the Egyptian tourist capital, Luxor. Once again each offered … Seguir leyendo
Por Daniel Pipes es licenciado en Historia por la Universidad de Harvard (1978) con el grado de doctor (GEES, 01/12/06):
El 92% de los encuestados en una encuesta reciente entre 1000 egipcios de más de 18 años de edad denominaba a Israel un estado enemigo. En contraste, un deficiente 2% veía a Israel como “un amigo de Egipto”.
Estos sentimientos hostiles son evidentes por sí mismos en muchos sentidos, incluyendo una canción popular llamada “Odio Israel“, viñetas políticas virulentamente antisemitas, barrocas teorías conspiratorias, y ataques terroristas contra israelíes de paso. El principal movimiento democrático de … Seguir leyendo
Por Said K. Aburish, escritor y biógrafo de Sadam Husein. Autor de Naser, el último árabe. Traducción: José María Puig de la Bellacasa (LA VANGUARDIA, 26/10/06):
En medio de tantas vicisitudes como la guerra de Iraq, la guerra contra el terror, el último capítulo del conflicto palestino y el actual enfrentamiento Oriente-Occidente de asombrosas proporciones, el mundo árabe celebra el quincuagésimo aniversario del conflicto de Suez y recuerda al general Gamal Abdel Naser, el dirigente árabe más popular desde el profeta Mahoma.
Este aniversario no podría llegar en un momento más oportuno. Los árabes no se han … Seguir leyendo
By Nehad Salem, a novelist and freelance interpreter (THE GUARDIAN, 20/10/06):
Egypt in the 50s was a time of elation born of hope in the future and pride in the distant past. The country was young again, emerging from a long period of lethargy. With Nasser, our new charismatic leader, anything seemed possible. A whole generation was fired with enthusiasm. On October 29 1956 the Israelis attacked. What happened to the army is well documented. That Nasser gave orders to distribute weapons to the inhabitants of Port Said and Suez is less common knowledge. Cases of brand new guns … Seguir leyendo
Por Pedro Martínez Montávez, experto arabista y profesor emérito de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (EL MUNDO, 27/07/06):
Pocos recordarán que se cumplieron ayer los 50 años de un acontecimiento importantísimo, al que sí corresponde por su relevancia y naturaleza el abusivamente repetido, y por ello ya lamentablemente devaluado, calificativo de histórico. Ese acontecimiento fue la nacionalización del Canal de Suez, proclamada por el presidente egipcio Gamal Abdel-Náser el 26 de julio del año 1956, en Alejandría, el gran mirador levantino del Mediterráneo árabe, ante una muchedumbre enfervorizada y sorprendida que se calculó en 200.000 personas.
Nacía un nuevo … Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan Steele (THE GUARDIAN, 16/05/05):
I am writing at the end of a week in the Arab world’s New York. Ferocious daytime temperatures turn Cairo into a 24-hour city. Cafes, bars and restaurants stay open long after midnight in the merciful cool. So do the clothes shops, thronged by crowds that spill off the pavements along the main streets, jostling the endlessly hooting traffic. At one in the morning toddlers still race around the pedestrian space outside the Mugamma, a monstrous government building in Tahrir square, while their parents chat on benches.
Barely has the sun gone down when … Seguir leyendo
Jon B. Alterman directs the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington (WASHIGTON POST, 13/06/06):
There are many in Washington who think that Egyptian politics turned around last spring because of President Bush’s demonstrated resolve to promote political change in that country. They further believe that the leadership in Cairo reverted to its bad old ways when Bush’s attention strayed.
They are wrong on both counts. Profound change was never in the air in Egypt. Some Americans may have been ebullient about changes afoot there, but Egyptians’ level of political participation told … Seguir leyendo
Por Saad Eddin Ibrahim, profesor de Sociología Política en la Universidad Americana de El Cairo y presidente del Centro Ibn Jaldún de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo (LA VANGUARDIA, 05/06/06):
La decisión del Gobierno del presidente egipcio, Hosni Mubarak, de juzgar a dos jueces de alto nivel por denunciar la manipulación del voto en las elecciones parlamentarias del otoño pasado ha conmovido al país. Mucha gente se ha manifestado para apoyar a los jueces, lo que ha cogido al régimen de Mubarak totalmente desprevenido.
Ahora, el Gobierno de Mubarak parece estar dando marcha atrás lo más rápido que puede. El … Seguir leyendo
By Ahdaf Soueif. Ahdaf Soueif’s latest book is Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground (THE GUARDIAN, 26/05/06):
It is now a year since the government of Egypt jacked up the violence of its response to pro-reform demonstrators. On the streets of the capital, state security forces introduced two innovations: gangs of muscle-bound, possibly criminal, possibly stoned young men were utilised to beat up peaceful demonstrators and to implement the second innovation: assaulting, stripping and sexually humiliating women protesters.This last is such a radical departure from Egyptian norms and values that its anniversary today is being marked by Egyptians everywhere. … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 16/05/06):
President Hosni Mubarak’s enforcers have a particular way of dealing with female demonstrators: they sexually humiliate them. The case of journalist Abir al-Askari is but one example. When she arrived at Cairo’s high court last week for a disciplinary hearing against two pro-democracy judges, she was grabbed by several men.”They drove me to Sayyida Zeinab police station. I screamed and resisted and they beat me and pulled my hair and my veil,” Ms Askari said. “Right in front of the police station they kicked me. When people gathered and told them to stop they … Seguir leyendo
By Mahmud Mekki and Hisham Bastawisi, vice-presidents of the Egyptian court of cassation (THE GUARDIAN, 10/05/06):
For more than 20 years, members of the Egyptian judiciary have been fighting for independence from the state. The political and economic reforms needed to achieve democracy and to restore public faith in government can be achieved only under an independent judiciary. So we are shocked to find ourselves before a disciplinary court, made up of government appointees, on charges of insulting the judiciary. The decision of the court, which is expected tomorrow, is likely to be instant dismissal.
Last year, we were … Seguir leyendo
By Jackson Diehl (THE WASHIGTON POST, 27/03/06):
Following the first day of Egypt’s deeply flawed parliamentary election last November, the country’s largest newspaper, the state-controlled al-Ahram, appeared with an equally flawed headline: “The Fairest Parliamentary Elections in 50 Years.” Its sister, al-Gumhuriya, proclaimed to its readers that “Egyptians Spoke Yesterday — They Chose True Democracy Rather Than Slogans and Heeded President Hosni Mubarak’s Call.”
But for the first time in the 24 years of Mubarak’s rule, there was another voice that day on the newsstands. The newspaper al-Masri al-Yom, or the Daily Egyptian, reported “death threats, bribes, violence and partisan … Seguir leyendo
By Ahdaf Soueif, his latest book is Mezzaterra, Fragments from the Common Ground (THE GUARDIAN, 09/03/06):
The story of Maajid Nawaz, Ian Nisbet and Reza Pankhurst, the three British Muslims who travelled to Egypt with their families, their detention there, their trial and their release now, almost four years later, encapsulates several elements in the “east-west” or “war on terror” story. Media coverage in the UK has focused on the men’s Britishness and whether the British government did enough to help them. As usual, events outside the western hemisphere are presented as though in a void. So here’s a … Seguir leyendo