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“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 Al-Hakeem's last…

— Tarek Osman

“Nasserite project was increasingly becoming real; something akin to a ‘United Arab World’ could, at the time, be envisaged; it was impossible to dismiss…

— 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

Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and…

— Andre Aciman

“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

“The politics of the 1970s were the second factor in this social shift. In his efforts to confront the Nasserite and socialist forces in…

— Tarek Osman

“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

“I lived through beautiful times, Busayna. It was a different age. Cairo was like Europe. It was clean and smart and the people were…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“The charm offensive was complemented by the work of a number of Islamic intellectuals with strong links to the Egyptian Islamic movement in general…

— Tarek Osman

“How could you determine a man's intention if you didn't speak his language or share his beliefs? She'd happily embarked on a study of…

— Enid Shomer

A timely and incisive look into the history, politics, and future of the Muslim Brotherhood by the foremost expert on Islamism in Egypt. Carrie…

— Vali Nasr

“Nasser taught the Egyptians to be cowards, opportunists, and hypocrites.”

— John R. Bradley