Politics Quote by 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

“Egyptian liberalism is typically presented as an odd combination of two arch enemies: monarchical (the liberal, Europe-oriented elite) and Nasserite (Arab nationalist, which despite…

— 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

Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“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

“Nasser's ‘Arabism’ was thus almost unprecedented in Egypt's long history. Nasser did not even invent Arab nationalism as a political identity. The easternists led…

— Tarek Osman

“The liberal constitutional experiment that the Egyptian political scene had witnessed in the 1930s and 1940s remained the province of Cairo's and Alexandria's elite…

— Tarek Osman

The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It…

— Hisham Melhem

“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

“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

“Egypt is now a deeply conservative country that, over the past two decades, has so pervasively succumbed to the Wahhabi customs promoted by the…

— John R. Bradley

Arab nation, Egypt, is not mentioned [in the Muslim Ban]? This is where facts are optional for the liberal media.

— Sebastian Gorka