This is how Abdel-Moneim Said read the truce at its start.
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Abdel-Moneim Said takes stock of the most significant summit to have occurred since the war on Gaza
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Abdel-Moneim Said weighs in from Riyadh
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Abdel-Moneim Said reviews the history of peace-making in Egypt
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Abdel-Moneim Said presents his vision for the region’s future
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Abdel-Moneim Said returns to a favourite topic
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Abdel-Moneim Said analyses a strategic surprise
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Egypt’s victory in the October War was essential to regaining Egyptian territory occupied by Israel in 1967 and vindicated its strategy in the wider region.
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The operative word is reciprocity: we make peace with those who want to make peace with us.
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Abdel-Moneim Said takes stock of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the ground.
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Cloning old formulas for a solution, whether military or peaceful, will not work. It will not bring peace and stability to the Middle East, which every country in the region needs.
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The Saudi moment entails a new vision involving a different approach to national interests, weighing available opportunities against changing conditions.
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In the mid-1970s, the famous Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal used the term the “Saudi era” to refer to the status Riyadh had acquired in the Middle East.
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Abdel-Moneim Said takes the long view
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A “Sadat moment” is that moment that marks a breakthrough in an intractable crisis. It happens thanks to a political initiative that triggers a shift in the negotiating climate, rendering it more conducive to the search for a solution.
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Whenever war, political upheaval or a natural disaster breaks out, people inevitably ask, “when will this dreadful situation end?” As natural as the question is, it is not enough.
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In this column and elsewhere, I have spoken frequently about reform in the Arab region and how it was a response to the violence, anarchy and terrorist fundamentalism ushered in by the so-called Arab Spring.
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The so called Arab Spring that hit in 2011 had the effect of a collision that juggles particles around, reorders them according to their intrinsic qualities and degrees of cohesion, and ushers them across a threshold into a new era.
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Abdel-Moneim Said turns to the Baltics.
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Abdel-Moneim Said takes stock of the recent events in Palestine
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