Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
The tax law was just the first step in the new stage which President Husnī Mubārak simply, but expressively, named the "third generation of economic reform," and this in turn means that we have already started to have the "sweet harvest" of reform despite all malicious attempts of distortion.
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2005
Any neutral observer of official institutions – political, religious, educational or health – would easily discover a schizophrenic Egyptian character coupled with an absence of conscience.
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
Adel Guindy responded to Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s article “Islam Can Vote, If We Let It” [art. 5] saying that the article provides a good insight about what Dr. Ibrahim has been repeatedly telling high-level politicians in Washington D.C. and academics and media in the world’s main capitals for...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Democracy is only the ripe fruit of the modern spirit and that is why democracy relies on the mature individual being and the consolidation of the value of citizenship that places the individual in the very center of political life.
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2002
The Al-Ahram Weekly provided an article giving the background of the Arab Though Institute Tareq Heggi had been asked to join.
Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2003
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, head of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, denied what was reported about him asking the US administration to pressure the Egyptian government to enforce democracy. "I did not ask anyone to do this. I am the one who pressures and asks for applying democracy because...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim said that the war on Iraq has been a warning sign for undemocratic regimes in the world and that it may encourage political reform in the Middle East region.
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2005
It is the right of anyone to call for democracy and reform, and it is one’s same right to seek his/her ambitions. But to combine the two in one basket, is problematic.
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2005
If Qur’ānic texts can tolerate interpretations and different understandings and explanations, then man-made principles should be treated the same. Man-made principles are products of setups pertaining to political, economic, and social givens. Thus, the change in setup should lead to changes in...
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2005
Some political trends in Egypt misunderstood some signs, and thought that the US is seeking a change of regime in Egypt, and thus decided to work accordingly.