“anger sweeping society expressed itself in significantly rising crime rates and everyday violence.26” — Tarek Osman Anger Copy Share Image
“civic, secular, nationalist frame of reference (devoid of any religious underpinnings) would face immense challenges in today's highly religious Egyptian society.” — Tarek Osman Religion Copy Share Image
“Nasserite project was increasingly becoming real; something akin to a ‘United Arab World’ could, at the time, be envisaged; it was impossible… — Tarek Osman Arab world Copy Share Image
“With the sole exception of Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, every single invasion the country witnessed in its history had come from the… — Tarek Osman Egypt Copy Share Image
“Sadat, years later, commented that Nasser did not die on 28 September 1970 but on 5 June 1967 (the day the war broke out).” — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, political Islam in general, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particu lar, believed… — Tarek Osman Islam Copy Share Image
“In general, the liberal experiment seemed to have failed to put forward a development programme for the country's poor, who continued to… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“(Ibrahim Pasha captured and flattened the Saudis' capital of Diraiyah – now a suburb of Riyadh, arrested the Saudi emir Abdullah Ibn… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“Tawfik Al-Hakeem, one of Egypt's most renowned twentieth-century writers, described Nasser as a ‘confused Sultan” — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“The story of Ayman Al-Zawahiri (head of Al-Qaeda following Osama bin Laden's killing in May 2011), his transform ation from a successful… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“country's middle class was growing at a very slow pace. By the late 1940s, around 5 per cent of the population controlled… — Tarek Osman Middle class Copy Share Image
“In Al-Karnak, an Egyptian film produced in the mid-1970s, the leading Egyptian actress Souad Hosni brilliantly exposed what a broken soul would… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Cairo itself was founded under their rule in 969, as was Al-Azhar (whose name is derived from that of Al-Zahraa). The dynasty… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“the mid-2000s, Islamic banks operating in Egypt controlled around 10 per cent of the commercial deposits in the country's banking system; and… — Tarek Osman Banking system Copy Share Image
“There was a major demographic boom in Egypt from the 1980s, in which the population almost doubled from around 45 million to… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Al-Sharaawi's fatwa that ‘humans do not own their bodies’ – and hence his prohibition of organ-transplant operations – was a key factor… — Tarek Osman Fatwa Copy Share Image
“A number of the coup's leaders, including Nasser, had relationships with the Brotherhood. Some (but not Nasser) actually ‘swore on the Koran… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“Ibn Taimiyah spent years hunting down any philosophical interpretation that appeared to deviate from the literalist, ‘clear’ interpretation of the Koran. He… — Tarek Osman Famous book Copy Share Image
“The Alexandria Bourse (the fourth largest worldwide) and the Cairo stock exchange were sizable, international markets. In fact, the story of the… — Tarek Osman Board of directors Copy Share Image
“1923 constitution. The committee, which comprised five Christians, one Jew and six Muslims, instituted Article 1 (that Islam is the religion of… — Tarek Osman Christianity Copy Share Image
“most intellectually intriguing episode in Ibn Hanbal's life was his fierce struggle with Al-Mutazillah, an isolationist school of Islamic philosophy that flourished… — Tarek Osman Life Copy Share Image
“the expansionist Wahhabi project found fertile ground in Egypt. Three indigenous factors contributed to its favourable reception. First, between 1974 and 1985,… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“The liberal constitutional experiment that the Egyptian political scene had witnessed in the 1930s and 1940s remained the province of Cairo's and… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“Brotherhood extended its social reach and infrastructure into a much more developed political platform. In the late 1990s, the traditionally vague Muslim… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Some of the key pillars of Nasser's project proved greatly lacking. The public sector evolved into a Soviet-style system of sterile thinking,… — Tarek Osman Economic development Copy Share Image
“The hero, the historical giant, the dream, was revealed to be a mere inept leader presiding over a failing system. He trusted… — Tarek Osman Dreams Copy Share Image
“Al-Zawahiri, the son of an upper middle-class family who had grown up in Al-Maadi, an affluent Cairene suburb, joined the Muslim Brotherhood… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Such criticism grew in the later 1970s, as the immediate post-Nasser years gave way to the period of economic opening up (al-infitah)… — Tarek Osman Failure Copy Share Image
“vital historical fact: that Gamal Abdel Nasser signifies the only truly Egyptian developmental project in the country's history since the fall of… — Tarek Osman History Copy Share Image
“The politics of the 1970s were the second factor in this social shift. In his efforts to confront the Nasserite and socialist… — Tarek Osman Islam Copy Share Image
“since ancient times, the people of Egypt have been expert in deceit and treachery’, he said, before recommending a ruthless campaign in… — Tarek Osman Ancient times Copy Share Image
“Egyptian mujahideen had a rich experience in Afghanistan. Thousands of young Egyptian men lived in Al-Sindh and the Punjab regions, and among… — Tarek Osman Money Copy Share Image
“the factor that really cemented the Brotherhood's social re-emergence, and founded the Islamic movement's social base, was its highly efficient services infrastructure.” — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“But he failed to use that mandate to transform his (and his people's) dreams into lasting institutions; he failed to convert his… — Tarek Osman Mandate Copy Share Image
“regime had handled the military threat successfully.41 But the rise of Islamism as a social force was a different story.” — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“he did revive the thinking of two respectable (if rejectionist) Islamic thinkers of mediaeval times, Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Taimiyah, and used… — Tarek Osman Time Copy Share Image
“Even colloquial Egyptian changed: ‘Good morning’ (‘Naharak Saeed’) and ‘Good evening’ (‘masaa al-kheir’) were replaced by ‘peace be upon you’, Islam's greeting… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Even the weighty Salafist voices (for example, Mohamed Seleem Al-Awaa,19 Mohamed Al-Ghazali,20 Fahmi Howeidy21 and Gamal Al-Banna22) were sidelined as ‘too intellectual’.” — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
