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Egypt's June 30: A popular uprising or a military coup?Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
July 9, 2013
I am one of those millions of Egyptians who strongly believe that the youth-led movement Tamarrod (Rebel), that was calling peacefully, for weeks for an early presidential election, is not a military coup but a popular uprising. After Mohamed Morsi stubbornly refused citizen' reasonable demands, the army stepped in to preserve order. It is a classic legitimate step in the spirit of the true meaning of democracy and will be taught in political science classes the world over.
The mediatization of Egypt's June 30 Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
July 24, 2013
Thanks to today's media technologies, some events just seem to happen 'out of nowhere' such as Egypt's June 30th popular uprising/coup. Mediatization refers to the role of the media in reporting such events and the perceptions that they create, sustain, or challenge.
You don't have to be a Muslim to understand Ramadan Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
July 24, 2013
Two weeks ago, Muslims around the world celebrated the beginning of Ramadan, a month in the Islamic lunar calendar, which "shifts" eleven days earlier each year with respect to the Gregorian solar calendar.
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's hate speechProf. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
August 8, 2013
During the one year of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi's rule, Christians, Shi'a, moderate Muslims, judges, media, business people, artists and any Egyptian critical of Morsi and his Brotherhood rule have been demonized and called "infidels" in the public square, in mosques, in the Brotherhood print and TV and above all at official functions where Morsi was attending.
Lecturing Egyptians about democracyProf. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
August 25, 2013
The West has completely ignored Mohamed Morsi's undemocratic rule during his first year in office, and still does. Instead they are now lecturing Egyptians on the proper way of practicing democracy.
From Yugoslavia with love, Part 1/4Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
September 8, 2013
I came to know Yugoslavia three times in a span of 60 years; one in the 1950s, another in the 1990s and one last week.
From Yugoslavia with love, Part 2/4Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
September 8, 2013
I started my visit to Sarajevo by having lunch as a guest of the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina at a traditional Bosnian restaurant in the beautiful national park which is situated by the water springs at the foothills of the Mount Igman which feed the Bosna River at the outskirts of Sarajevo.
From Yugoslavia with love, Part 4/4Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
September 8, 2013
On Bosnia-Herzegovina of today, political scientist Dr. Florian Bieber of Kent University, in Central and Southeast European Politics Since, makes the following important comments, "Democratization and Europeanization of Bosnia remain more conditional on its neighbors than is the case in most other Central and East European countries."
London's gift of musicalsProf. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
September 22, 2013
I love musicals. They allow me to witness human creativity in music, lyrics, storytelling, acting and dancing all at once. London offers the best. Last summer I attended three on the legendaries Queen (We will Rock You), the Beatles (Let it Be) and Michael Jackson (Thriller Live), four musical dramas; A Chorus Line, The Bodyguard, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and the one-of-a-kind Stomp.
Egypt: Back to revolutionProf. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
October 8, 2013
Two months after Egypt's events of June 30, a domestic opinion poll found 68 percent of the respondents call the events a "revolution." But the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters in Egypt, Qatar and Turkey and some of the pro-democracy activists in the West still deny that the events should be called a "revolution."

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In the second instalment of Women of the Resistance, Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Palestinian-Canadian artist, Rehab Nazzal.