Comfort zone Quote by Tarek Osman

“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

“Between 1991 and 1993, the militants had virtually taken complete control of Imbaba, replacing the government as the social arbiter. The situation reached a…

— Tarek Osman

“At that time, a grand Arabic project emanating from Cairo had credibility. That is not true today. The relative standing of Egyptians (the country,…

— Tarek Osman

“There was a major demographic boom in Egypt from the 1980s, in which the population almost doubled from around 45 million to 80 million,…

— Tarek Osman

“Amr Khaled, the most successful of those young sheikhs,”

— Tarek Osman

“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

“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, an ambush…

— Tarek Osman

“Cairo itself was founded under their rule in 969, as was Al-Azhar (whose name is derived from that of Al-Zahraa). The dynasty also inaugurated…

— Tarek Osman

“But the society became characterized by a unique mix of Sunni theology and Shi'ite social traditions. Al-Azhar evolved and consolidated its unique status; and…

— Tarek Osman

“unique mix of Sunni theology and Shi'ite social traditions.”

— Tarek Osman

“The Alexandria Bourse (the fourth largest worldwide) and the Cairo stock exchange were sizable, international markets. In fact, the story of the Alexandria Bourse…

— Tarek Osman

“In general, the liberal experiment seemed to have failed to put forward a development programme for the country's poor, who continued to constitute more…

— Tarek Osman