“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 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
“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 Country Poor 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
“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
“Tawfik Al-Hakeem, one of Egypt's most renowned twentieth-century writers, described Nasser as a ‘confused Sultan” — Tarek Osman Israel 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 Broken soul 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
“There was a major demographic boom in Egypt from the 1980s, in which the population almost doubled from around 45 million to… — Tarek Osman Literacy Rate Copy Share Image
“Thousands of prayer rooms (Zawyas) were established in garages and ground-floors in rich and poor neighbourhoods alike. In the mid-1980s there was… — Tarek Osman Israel 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
“Egyptian liberalism is typically presented as an odd combination of two arch enemies: monarchical (the liberal, Europe-oriented elite) and Nasserite (Arab nationalist,… — Tarek Osman Israel Copy Share Image
“Nasser's ‘Arabism’ was thus almost unprecedented in Egypt's long history. Nasser did not even invent Arab nationalism as a political identity. The… — Tarek Osman History 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 Mohamed Ali 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
“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 Middle class 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 Five years 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
“Paris on the Nile’ or the ‘finery of Cairo’, Al-Ismailiya – a district to which Ismael gave his name – comprised large,… — Tarek Osman Cairo 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 Bin laden 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
“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
“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
“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
“regime had handled the military threat successfully.41 But the rise of Islamism as a social force was a different story.” — Tarek Osman Different story 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 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 Salafist Voices 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 Good evening 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
