Bassem Sabry |
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Sunday, May 19, 2013 |
Egypt’s military chief wisely dismisses calls for a coup against President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. |
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Friday, May 10, 2013 |
Egypt must experiment with strategies for exercising legitimate political pressure, with the aim of bringing President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood into a more inclusive democratic process, writes Bassem Sabry. |
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Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 |
Bassem Sabry discusses the recent controversy surrounding the judiciary in Egypt and debates the Muslim Brotherhood's motives. |
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Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013 |
Many Egyptians are concerned at Qatar's growing influence in their country, but Bassem Sabry asks if Egypt can afford to refuse Qatari aid at such a crucial time. |
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Wednesday, Apr 3, 2013 |
Bassem Sabry discusses the investigation of popular Egyptian political satirist Bassem Youssef as well as the fate of Egypt's independent media. |
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Tuesday, Mar 26, 2013 |
Bassem Sabry writes that he's never been more worried about Egypt since its revolution than he is right now. |
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Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 |
Egypt's political and economic crises under President Mohammed Morsi have led some Egyptians to reconsider the Hosni Mubarak era, writes Bassem Sabry. |
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Sunday, Mar 10, 2013 |
The decision by Egypt’s Administrative Court to postpone the parliamentary elections scheduled for April provides President Morsi, the Brotherhood and the opposition an opportunity to reconsider their strategies and take the country back from the brink, Bassem Sabry writes from Cairo. |
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Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 |
Bassem Sabry comments on the implications of the National Salvation Front’s call to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections and the intransigence of President Mohammed Morsi and the Islamists. |
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Friday, Feb 22, 2013 |
Bassem Sabry outlines the program for a political dialogue in Egypt, but the steps required would involve compromises by both President Mohammed Morsi and the opposition. |
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Monday, Feb 11, 2013 |
Bassem Sabry offers a tribute on the first anniversary of the death of Galal Amer, one of Egypt and the Arab world's greatest and most poignant satirical writers, citing some of this best quotes. |
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Monday, Jan 28, 2013 |
Bassem Sabry recommends how Egypt can de-escalate the current crisis. |
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Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 |
Bassem Sabry analyzes Egypt’s progress on the two-year anniversary of the revolution that led to the removal of Hosni Mubarak from power. |
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Sunday, Jan 20, 2013 |
Bassem Sabry offers lessons for Libya’s constitutional process, based upon Egypt’s experience. |
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Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 |
Bassem Sabry reviews what Egypt won and lost in 2012. |
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Saturday, Dec 22, 2012 |
There is a real opportunity for the "non-Islamist" opposition to come out of the current upheaval as a stronger political force if they stop making the same mistakes they have been for the last two years, writes Bassem Sabry. |
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Monday, Dec 17, 2012 |
Bassem Sabry analyzes the first round of voting in the referendum on Egypt’s constitution and still sees a divided Egypt. |
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Thursday, Nov 22, 2012 |
President Mohammed Morsi has assumed extensive new powers, testing Egypt’s fragile democracy, Bassem Sabry writes from Cairo. |
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Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 |
The New Egypt cannot ignore public opinion and seeks to broker a new role, rather than get drawn deeper into an old crisis, Bassem Sabry writes exclusively for Al-Monitor. |
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Tuesday, Nov 6, 2012 |
The Egyptian government has announced that it will impose mandatory shop-closing hours across the nation. At at least half the population angrily opposes the law, writes Bassem Sabry, including pretty much the entire political opposition. |
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Monday, Oct 22, 2012 |
Egypt's constituent assembly has quietly produced another constituional draft over the weekend. Bassem Sabry outlines the document's changes, which include apparent limitations on the scope of religious freedoms. Neither Salafists nor liberals are pleased with the draft, but its ambiguity will make it tough to challenge, he writes. |
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Sunday, Oct 7, 2012 |
While it's indeed conceivable that the Muslim Brotherhood may not succeed in wowing voters and the world with their management of Egypt, and there is ample room for missteps, the odds seem stacked against an outright failure, writes Bassem Sabry for Al-Monitor. |
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Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012 |
Egypt’s liberals and moderates may have helped spark the revolution that brought down President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, but they’ve have lost out in the new post-Mubarak political order. Bassem Sabry, writing for Al-Monitor, offers five key issues the opposition should address. |
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Monday, Jul 2, 2012 |
A group of more than 150 politicians and activists held a press conference at a downtown Cairo hotel to announce the launch of the much-hyped “Egyptian Third Current” last week. Bassem Sabry writes about the meteoric rise of the movement, which includes almost every major secular, liberal and leftist party or movement. |
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Monday, Jun 25, 2012 |
Despite the cheers in Tahrir square, Egypt's new president, Mohamed Morsi, finds himself surrounded by increasingly hostile state institutions, while many of his countrymen fear for their nation now that an Islamist leader has come to power. Bassem Sabry writes that Morsi and other Egyptians must move quickly to overcome the many challenges facing Egypt. |
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Saturday, May 26, 2012 |
Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi came in first in the elections, with Ahmed Shafiq, a former Mubarak prime minister, following closely behind. Egyptian blogger Bassem Sabry says the only way to save the country is for revolutionaries to cooperate with a Brotherhood that commits itself to moderation. |
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