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Editorial: Navigating complexity

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

Egypt is confronting a regional situation unlike any it has encountered in recent memory.

Ways out from the great folly?

Mahmoud Mohieldin

Trade imbalances, exchange-rate misalignments, and a massive and worsening debt crisis in the developed and developing world alike all characterise the present state of the world economy.

The virtues of coalition

Abdel-Moneim Said

Abdel-Moneim Said considers the regional moment in the light of three Gulf wars.

Beyond the IMF agreement

Ali Metwally

Ali Metwally writes on the importance of building measurable economic plans after the expiry of Egypt’s current agreement with the IMF

Iran’s Quagmire: The war that may be easier to start than to end

Amr Helmy

History has a way of warning us about wars that look manageable at the outset but become nearly impossible to end. The United States learned that lesson in Vietnam. It entered the war believing that overwhelming military power could deliver a swift victory and force a political settlement on American terms.

The dual strategic choice: Let it be

Abdelrahim Shalaby

A plea to Washington and Tehran to keep their word, and to everyone else to stay out of the way.

On a war that remains at a standstill: Shifting priorities and mounting losses

Walid M. Abdelnasser

Hardly a few hours pass, and sometimes not even a few minutes, without hearing news, speculation, predictions, assessments, or even statements from senior political figures in one country or another arguing that a full-scale war between the US and Israel, on one side, and Iran, on the other, is on the verge of erupting more fiercely than before.

Building stronger human rights institutions

Hany Ibrahim

Human rights should not be pushed to the back of the queue after security and stability have been restored to the region, notably because their protection contributes to resilient societies and more effective public institutions.

A second American-led roadmap on Gaza

Hussein Haridy

Two decades separate two American-inspired and American-led roadmaps for Palestine and Gaza. What are the chances of the second one’s success?

A roadmap for Gaza, a future for Palestine

Ahmed Abdrabou

The success of the new roadmap for Gaza will depend on translating its provisions into an agreed timetable that both sides will implement.

Secrets of the endurance of nations

Hossam Badrawi

The historical continuity of nations is determined by identity, institutions, and an openness to change.

New maritime coalition

Abdelrahim Shalaby

The outlook for the new multinational maritime defence coalition can be read in different ways according to the priorities of its founding members.

Editorial: Steady amid the storm

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

The recent Damietta Port incident has thrust itself to the forefront of the political and security landscape.

Back to war

Abdel-Moneim Said

Abdel-Moneim Said is more pessimistic than ever about the ongoing war.

Testing Egypt’s economic resilience

Gamal Wagdy

In today’s increasingly volatile global environment, policymakers should incorporate more rigorous stress-testing into their economic planning.

US-Iranian escalation: Towards a comprehensive war or strengthening negotiating leverage?

Walid M. Abdelnasser

Few observers concerned with international affairs and Middle Eastern affairs would disagree that the sustained escalation in direct and indirect military confrontations between the US and Iran over the recent period, along with the exchange of accusations, threats, and increasingly hostile rhetoric between both sides, has, in practical terms, rendered the ceasefire agreement between them meaningless.

The hardest battle: Ending the war with Iran

Amr Helmy

History repeatedly demonstrates that the power capable of starting a war is seldom the one that ultimately determines how it ends.

The political message behind the Damietta Port incident

Hossam Badrawi

The attack that targeted the American vessel at Damietta port was never, from the outset, a mere passing security incident, nor should it be read as an isolated event to be measured by casualty figures or the scale of material loss.

Postcode economics

Mahmoud Mohieldin

The government of new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham intends to empowering people through growth in every postocde.

Egypt and Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean

Ahmed Kandil

The diplomatic rapprochement between Egypt and Turkey may become one of the most important pillars of a more stable Eastern Mediterranean.