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Taking Tea With Torturers, Craig Scott Oct 2015

Taking Tea With Torturers, Craig Scott

Craig M. Scott

This working paper (3000 words, including 19 footnotes) was written on January 29-31, 2011, as events unfolded in Egypt. It was published in the present version as an article on January 31, 2011, by OpenDemocracy, and may be republished with attribution for non-commercial purposes following the Creative Commons guidelines. The article’s sub-title is “From the Shah of Iran to Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister to Egypt’s Mubarak, cozy relationships in US foreign policy need to be questioned.” Its point of departure is the Thatcher-Pinochet friendship, which is related to Hillary Clinton's interview in Egypt in 2009 when she downplayed the US …


A Surfer’S Guide To Us Foreign Policy In Egypt, Or Has Obama Been Snookered?, Craig Scott Oct 2015

A Surfer’S Guide To Us Foreign Policy In Egypt, Or Has Obama Been Snookered?, Craig Scott

Craig M. Scott

This short article (3800 words, including 14 footnotes) was written and published on February 8, 2011, by OpenDemocracy.net, and may be republished with attribution for non-commercial purposes following the Creative Commons guidelines. OpenDemocracy.net’s summary blurb reads: “Reading the Washington runes. What happened with Mr. Wisner, Egypt lobbyist and Obama's special envoy to Mubarak? Is this an ugly farce, an ethical travesty or a cronyistic scandal?” The purpose of the article is to explore two hypotheses surrounding the sending by President Obama of former US Ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, as Obama’s envoy to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt during the …


Hydrometallurgy. A Personal View. Interview, Fathi Habashi Aug 2015

Hydrometallurgy. A Personal View. Interview, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

INTERVIEW OF FATHI HABASHI, by William McRae, Oral Historian, Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation, Ottawa, (613) 793-2416, wmcrae@technomuses.ca August 25, 2015 at 10:00 am, Fairmont Hotel, Toronto


الاستقلالية والرأسمال الرمزي ضمن حركة اجتماعية أكاديمية : مجموعة 9 مارس في مصر, Benjamin Geer Feb 2015

الاستقلالية والرأسمال الرمزي ضمن حركة اجتماعية أكاديمية : مجموعة 9 مارس في مصر, Benjamin Geer

Benjamin Geer

مجموعة 9 مارس من أجل استقلال الجامعات (حركة 9 مارس) هي مجموعة من الأكاديميين المصريين الذين خاضوا طوال العشرية الأخيرة، حملات لرفع درجة الاستقلالية المؤسسية للجامعة والحرية الأكاديمية في الجامعات العمومية المصرية. يستكشف هذا المقال أجوبة ممكنة عن ثلاثة أسئلة حول 9 مارس: أولا، ما الذي يفسر توجه الأعضاء المؤسسين نحو تكوين مثل هذه المجموعة على اعتبار ما بدا على أساتذة الجامعة في مصر من قلة الاهتمام بأي نوع من النشاط الحركي وقلة سوابق حركة اجتماعية مركزة على هذه القضية؟ ثانيا، كيف تمكنت المجموعة من البقاء طوال تلك المدة التي ظلت فيها قائمة في سياق سياسي تسلطي، بل ومن خوض …