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Articles of the author Ezzat Ibrahim
Back to square one
For 12 years, the United States have been expecting another 11 September-like attack on American soil. Thus, the Boston marathon explosions evoked fears the US general public and US agencies worked hard to contain. A new phase of the war on terror has started, and President Barack Obama lost the (...)

17 - 04 - 2013
Squaring the circle
Within weeks US President Barack Obama will make his first visit to Israel since taking office. The trip coincides with immense changes in the political scene in North Africa and the Levant. Israel is the first stop on Obama's first foreign tour of his second term, and he will use it to reaffirm (...)

06 - 03 - 2013
US Arab litmus-tests
When the young Tunisian fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on 17 December 2011, US politicians and media failed to predict the scale of the incident's repercussions even as the fireball was still rolling in the streets of Tunisia. Almost two years after the Bouazizi incident, the (...)

19 - 12 - 2012
Chaos of US Morsi policy
The US administration finds itself once again at a critical conjuncture on the course of the democratic reforms of the Arab Spring and how a pivotal country, Egypt, should be treated following last year's revolution against its old ally, ousted former president Hosni Mubarak. Last week's visit to (...)

12 - 12 - 2012
Washington's second shock
Unlike what happened during last year's 25 January Revolution, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the Egyptian president one day before the issuing of the controversial constitutional declaration that consolidates the president's powers against a possible Constitutional Court decision (...)

28 - 11 - 2012
A second term, a second thought
The Middle East agenda has moved to an advanced priority among Washington's specialists after the elections. It is too early to make a judgement on the next US move in the region but there are a lot of hopes after a disappointing first term. The White House agenda is fully occupied with urgent (...)

17 - 11 - 2012
‘The best is yet to come'
Barack Obama defeated the Republican candidate Mitt Romney after winning a majority of votes of the Electoral College early yesterday. Most polls had placed the election too close to call, yet Obama managed to score an extraordinary victory over Romney. His campaign succeeded in breathing new life (...)

10 - 11 - 2012
Foreign policy in the US presidential campaign
There is little difference between the two candidates on Egypt and the Arab Spring, notes Ezzat Ibrahim The US presidential elections debates concluded with a special episode on foreign policy. The Democratic candidate President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney have shown little (...)

25 - 10 - 2012
Shutting off the fund flow
Congressional members decide money to Egypt can wait, reports Ezzat Ibrahim from Washington The anti-Islam movie and its consequences have turned into a tense time for Egyptian-American relations, arguably the most difficult period in 30 years. One example: the State Department had notified (...)

04 - 10 - 2012
Mursi in New York
The visit to the UN of Egypt's first democratically elected president was overshadowed this week by indications that US-Egyptian relations are turning sour, Ezzat Ibrahim reports from New York President Mohamed Mursi arrived back to Cairo early this morning after a three-day visit to New York City (...)

27 - 09 - 2012
Reformulating Egyptian-US relations
At the end of an intense four-year term as Egyptian ambassador in Washington, Sameh Shukri spoke to Ezzat Ibrahim about Egypt's relationship with the US, former president Mubarak and the 25 January Revolution In a wide-ranging interview conducted as ambassador Sameh Shukri, Egypt's ambassador in (...)

06 - 09 - 2012
Clinton in Cairo
will visit Egypt against a backdrop of ambiguity over the US role in President Mohamed Mursi's decision to reinstate the dissolved People Assembly, reports Ezzat Ibrahim from Washington Next Saturday US Secretary of State arrives in Cairo to meet Egypt's new President Mohamed Mursi and to express (...)

12 - 07 - 2012
A looming paradox
The relationship between the US and Egypt is likely to undergo changes in the wake of the election of the new Egyptian president. However, there is disagreement about how far these changes may go or what they may mean, writes Ezzat Ibrahim in Washington The difficult question to answer in (...)

05 - 07 - 2012
A trajectory of future dilemmas
Ezzat Ibrahim reports from Washington on White House and State Department responses to Egypt's presidential election The US government is scrambling to craft a balanced position after the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi was declared president of the Arab world's most populous state amid the (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
'There is a need for a Middle Eastern Ataturk'
US statesman and national security advisor to the Carter administrator explains his views on Egypt's political transition In your opinion how could the results of presidential elections change the Middle East? I think it depends a great deal not only on the character of the regime, but it also (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
An action plan to be tested
Falling short of significant financial assistance, the G8 is stepping up mechanisms for Arab Spring countries to recover ill-gotten assets banked abroad, reports Ezzat Ibrahim from Washington In the aftermath of the Camp David Summit early this week, G8 countries left the future of supporting Arab (...)

24 - 05 - 2012
Red lines of US Egypt policy
How does the US administration view the forthcoming presidential elections in Egypt and the bases of bilateral relations, asks Ezzat Ibrahim in Washington The US administration has been working hard to articulate a clear picture of the forthcoming presidential elections in Egypt, though US (...)

17 - 05 - 2012
Wishful thinking
Arab Spring countries must know that G8 countries will not be handing out money to assist their transition into flourishing democracies, writes Ezzat Ibrahim in Washington DC The G8 summit will meet in Camp David on 18-19 May to discuss world issues, including assistance to Arab Spring states one (...)

17 - 05 - 2012
MB talks in DC
In Washington Ezzat Ibrahim follows the progress of what the US media has termed the Muslim Brotherhood's charm offensive A four man delegation from the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party visiting the US capital has been inundated by requests from official quarters for meetings. After a (...)

12 - 04 - 2012
NGO crisis on hold
Following last week's lifting of the travel ban on six American NGO employees the US is carefully watching the repercussions on Egyptian public opinion, reports Ezzat Ibrahim from Washington The lifting of the travel ban and subsequent flight to the US of Americans indicted in the NGO case (...)

08 - 03 - 2012
Washington-Cairo crossroad
Military linkage still forms the cornerstone for US-Egyptian relations, reports Ezzat Ibrahim from Washington Cairo and Washington are both working behind the scenes to reduce frictions in a strategic partnership that dates back Washington's sponsoring the signing of the peace agreement between (...)

16 - 02 - 2012
Bilateral relations, Abul-Naga under fire
The NGO crisis between Egypt and the US is heating up, writes Ezzat Ibrahim from Washington After weeks of speculation and horse-trading, the crisis between Cairo and Washington over investigations into Egyptian and US-affiliated NGOs for meddling in Egypt's internal affairs and receiving foreign (...)

09 - 02 - 2012
The real questions for Egypt
In an interview with Ezzat Ibrahim, *, a leading American scholar of Islamic affairs, examines the aftermath of the upheavals of the Arab Spring and the rise of the Islamists in Egypt and Tunisia What was your reading of the results of the first rounds of the Egyptian parliamentary elections? A (...)

29 - 12 - 2011
Facing facts
After weeks of speculation the US administration has embraced greater engagement with Egypt's Islamists, writes Ezzat Ibrahim The success in the first round of parliamentary elections of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Salafist Nour Party, (...)

15 - 12 - 2011
Diplomatic street fight at UN
The scene is heating up as the Palestinian Authority presses ahead in its bid for full UN membership for a Palestinian state, writes Ezzat Ibrahim from New York In a controversial step that would put the Palestinian Authority (PA) in a possible confrontation with the United States, Palestinian (...)

22 - 09 - 2011
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