Pieces

Morsi was held in terrible and inhumane conditions since the Egyptian military overthrew his government close to six years ago. There had been many warnings about his deteriorating health, including from a British parliamentary delegation that visited Egypt last year....

Ours is a beautiful country. This may seem an odd thing to say given that we’ve just experienced one of Canada’s worst mass shootings. But it is true. We are a stoic lot, we Canadians. But when tragedy strikes, there is an outpouring of solidarity that is...

The holiday season has passed and, almost certainly, a considerable amount of food has been thrown into the garbage. Food waste is a serious challenge in the developed world. While some suffer from food insecurity, estimates are that up to 33 per cent of food supply...

The past few months have been a whirlwind in the U.S. with the presidential campaign and the election of Donald Trump. But let’s not pat ourselves too firmly on the back. Many of us in Canada watched Trump vs. Clinton with horror and dismay as scandals broke on both...

In an increasingly connected world, the failure to defend democracy anywhere erodes democracy everywhere   Until recently, the proposition that democracy was vulnerable even in countries where it has been long established would have been met with derision. But what a...

        On April 15, the scene on the streets of Cairo was unfamiliar: Thousands of Egyptians, angered by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's policies, called for the downfall of the regime while chanting slogans from the 2011 popular uprising against then-President...

What no one counted on was Paola Regeni, who stood up not only for her son, but for all the other Egyptian victims of the regime An Egyptian folk tale revolves around two men who had a hard-working and faithful ass. They had grown so dependent and attached to the...

      One of the great lessons for the Egyptian military from Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign must have been that it cannot allow executive power to wander too far from its own control. The military coup against Mohamed Morsi was about more than just wresting power from...

Introspection - in the West and in Egypt - over the failure to achieve the goals of 2011 is preferable to blaming others Five years have passed since that glorious day in January 2011 when Egyptians found their voice and spilled out onto the streets to reclaim their...

"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."                                                                         ...