Brexit & Foreign Policy
Question for David Cameron: What should Egyptian democracy look like?
Does it look like President Sisi?
Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt: Don’t confuse democracy with the mere holding of elections
Recently we've seen the emergence of another kind of autocrat. Neither democrat nor dictator, this type of leader holds regular elections and in some cases even introduces ostensibly progressive policies.
Call the Copts: The Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s Christians
Mohammed Morsi's victory in Egypt's presidential election raises new fears over the future of religious freedom amongst the country's Coptic Christian minority.
A live, incarcerated bin Laden would have been more use to us
Kevin Meagher debates the case for taking Osama bin Laden alive and trying him before the courts.
The Muslim Brotherhood are increasingly viewed as ghosts of the past
Egypt, like many other places in the Middle East, is entering a new phase, where the Muslim Brotherhood, just like Mubarak, are increasingly viewed as ugly ghosts of the past.
Demographic expert: Tunisia may be ready for democracy, Egypt probably isn’t
The model does indicate that there are grounds for optimism in Tunisia. The proportion of its working age adults who are young adults is xxx, which translates to a probability of liberal democracy of 0.48, or around one in two, similar to Chile's probability as it democratised. Meanwhile Egypt, with its young-adult proportion of 0.48, translates to a probability of liberal democracy of 0.31 - less than one in three.