“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“Unlike political Islamism, Arab nationalism has no major following on the Egyptian streets. Unlike liberal capitalism, it lacks the resources and the… — Tarek Osman Politics 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
“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
“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
“But the society became characterized by a unique mix of Sunni theology and Shi'ite social traditions. Al-Azhar evolved and consolidated its unique… — Tarek Osman Israel 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
“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 Mental state 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
“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
“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
“after challenging France by arming and bankrolling the Algerian revolutionaries, he had the courage to send thousands of his troops to Yemen,… — Tarek Osman Courage Copy Share Image
“economic situation in the 1970s and 1980s also supported the rise of the religious movement. Open economic policies that Sadat introduced in… — Tarek Osman Economics Copy Share Image
“The 1981 assassination of President Sadat is the perfect example of that flexible structure and decentralized modus operandi. The crime was undertaken… — Tarek Osman Assassination 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
“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
“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 Bin laden 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“to the, then, sympathetic Saudi Arabia, where many managed to build vast fortunes. Others settled in Europe, especially in Switzerland, where new… — Tarek Osman Saudi arabia 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
“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
“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
“Brotherhood extended its social reach and infrastructure into a much more developed political platform. In the late 1990s, the traditionally vague Muslim… — Tarek Osman First time 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
