Barcelona: if only the world had listened to Mubarak on August 22, 2017 IN the past two years there have been at least 17 major terrorist attacks in Europe, killing nearly 400 people, injuring hundreds more and leaving countless families mourning the loss of their loved ones. For too long, Europeans thought the waters of the Mediterranean would be sufficient to isolate them from the terrorism coming from […]
Egypt needs economic reform, but must heed warnings from the past on August 7, 2017Economic reform is not alien to Egypt. In January 1977, then-President Anwar Sadat tried to introduce a controversial economic reform that backfired and brought people out into the streets in protest. He was forced to scrap the whole project due to what he called the “Uprising of the Thieves.” “The first attempt at real reform […]