“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
“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
“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
“economic aspect of Islamism penetrated a number of the economy's industrial and service sectors. For example, eight of the twenty richest families… — Tarek Osman Family Copy Share Image
“Believing that Egypt's future lay with the Levant, Iraq, Iran and the Arabian peninsula, the easternists sought to establish strong relationships with… — Tarek Osman Family Copy Share Image
“The combination of the land-reform programme and the creation of the public sector resulted in around 75 per cent of Egypt's gross… — Tarek Osman Public sector Copy Share Image
“modernization’ of the 1970s and 1980s, by contrast, unintentionally blended plain Wahhabi Islamism with Western, especially American, popular culture, coexisting in an… — Tarek Osman Comfort zone Copy Share Image
“Neither Mohamed Ali nor any of his descendants (up to King Fuad, who ascended to the throne in 1917) even spoke classical… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Their chance came with the 2011 revolution. The group's leaders calculated that the end of Mubarak's reign would create a political void,… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“The country's literary and intellectual luminaries were marginalized in the same way. Naguib Mahfouz's23 novels were no longer serialized in Al-Ahram. Tawfik… — Tarek Osman Books Copy Share Image
“The Brotherhood gambled on the ‘pious wings in the movement’ (the words of Hassan Al-Tuhami, one of the closest members of the… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“Paris on the Nile’ or the ‘finery of Cairo’, Al-Ismailiya – a district to which Ismael gave his name – comprised large,… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Friends, the ancient word is dead; the ancient books are dead; our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead; our poems… — Tarek Osman Books 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
“At that time, a grand Arabic project emanating from Cairo had credibility. That is not true today. The relative standing of Egyptians… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“the Luxor attack (the latter widely reported in the West as a serious indication of a regime unable to assert its control… — Tarek Osman Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“Shame Law’ which gave the state wide powers to prosecute anyone ‘who threatens the values of the society’; the values were defined… — Tarek Osman Family Copy Share Image
“Khaled Yousef's Hina Maysara a voyeuristic, smash-hit film, produced in 2007, recounts of the story of Cairene slums – such as Imbaba… — Tarek Osman Children Copy Share Image
“regime also imposed a further restriction on religious parties (and independent parliamentary candidates), namely an amendment of Articles 1 and 2 of… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“Between 1991 and 1993, the militants had virtually taken complete control of Imbaba, replacing the government as the social arbiter. The situation… — Tarek Osman Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“Islam became the uncontested ‘last resort’. The fall of loyalties and ideologies, the lack of national projects and the sense of humiliation… — Tarek Osman Islam Copy Share Image
“In the end, the majority of Egyptians overwhelmingly approved the proposed constitutional amendments. Of the more than 18 million Egyptians who voted… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“Some (but not Nasser) actually ‘swore on the Koran and the sword’ (pleaded allegiance to the group). But neither the Brotherhood's political… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“hiwala's expansion in the 1980s and 1990s, when hundreds of offices were set up across Egypt, was exponential. In a few years,… — Tarek Osman Halal Copy Share Image
“seemed to be turning Egypt from a poor and lethargic economy into an exemplary developmental case study. The country's economy grew at… — Tarek Osman Economics Copy Share Image
“Al-Azhar had over several decades lost part of its authoritative intellectual firepower. Several notable theologians emerged in Egypt (and elsewhere in the… — Tarek Osman Theologians Copy Share Image
“Unlike political Islamism, Arab nationalism has no major following on the Egyptian streets. Unlike liberal capitalism, it lacks the resources and the… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“The speed of these social changes outpaced the development of Egyptian society and the people. Land reform and asset nationalization resulted in… — Tarek Osman Change Copy Share Image
“The group's growth was dramatic; in under fifteen years, the Brotherhood grew from a single room in Ismailiya to 3,000 branches across… — Tarek Osman Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“The charm offensive was complemented by the work of a number of Islamic intellectuals with strong links to the Egyptian Islamic movement… — Tarek Osman Islam Copy Share Image
“The Islamic movement in Egypt, from the late 1970s, managed to occupy the political space in the country that had been the… — Tarek Osman Islam Copy Share Image
“Luxor attack in 1997 in which Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya killed fifty-eight tourists and four Egyptians outside a pharaonic temple. In the same year,… — Tarek Osman Police officers Copy Share Image
“theatre, pioneering artists such as Fatima Rouschdie and Naguib Al-Rihani introduced popular comedies as well as melodramas (Al-Rihani 1889–1948, ‘the father of… — Tarek Osman Art Copy Share Image
“Voice of the Arabs (Sout Al-Arab), Nasser's far-reaching radio station, became a propagandist vehicle par excellence, conveying the leader's fiery speeches to… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s and 1990s, however, thousands of Egyptians were forced conscripts and paid fighters constituting the bulk of Iraq's 200,000 reservoir… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Land reform was enacted through enforcing a 100-acre ceiling on the size of any single family's holding; ending absentee ownership; capping rent… — Tarek Osman Family Copy Share Image
“Whereas in 1800 at least 90 per cent of Egyptians were poor peasants, by 1900 more than 25 per cent of the… — Tarek Osman Family Copy Share Image
“Rather, the society was wide open to popular Western culture at the very time when it was being drawn towards conservatism and… — Tarek Osman Desperate housewives Copy Share Image
“The change can be measured in the increase in the proportion of women in Egypt wearing the veil, from less than 30… — Tarek Osman Change Copy Share Image
