Quote by Tarek Osman

“Unlike political Islamism, Arab nationalism has no major following on the Egyptian streets. Unlike liberal capitalism, it lacks the resources and the might of…

— Tarek Osman

“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again, Israel found…

— Daniel Gordis

“The Islamic movement in Egypt, from the late 1970s, managed to occupy the political space in the country that had been the domain of…

— Tarek Osman

“vital historical fact: that Gamal Abdel Nasser signifies the only truly Egyptian developmental project in the country's history since the fall of the pharaonic…

— Tarek Osman

“Not one of our political spokespeople—the same is true of the Arabs since Abdel Nasser’s time—ever speaks with self-respect and dignity of what we…

— Edward W. Said

“Beirut’s enduring lesson for me was how thin is the veneer of civilization, how easily the ties that bind can unravel, how quickly a…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“outbreak of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war was not a result of some global strategy, but of a set of specific, regional calculations and miscalculations;…

— Fred Halliday

“The hero, the historical giant, the dream, was revealed to be a mere inept leader presiding over a failing system. He trusted military commanders…

— Tarek Osman

“Out of this unstable mix of technocracy and national security you have a nostalgia developing for colonialism or religion—atavistic in my opinion, but some…

— Edward W. Said

“Some of the key pillars of Nasser's project proved greatly lacking. The public sector evolved into a Soviet-style system of sterile thinking, a deathbed…

— Tarek Osman

“Tawfik Al-Hakeem, one of Egypt's most renowned twentieth-century writers, described Nasser as a ‘confused Sultan”

— Tarek Osman

“In the 1980s and 1990s, however, thousands of Egyptians were forced conscripts and paid fighters constituting the bulk of Iraq's 200,000 reservoir in its…

— Tarek Osman