News stories by Saad Eddin Ibrahim

This is a very delicate period for Egypt. Confrontations between the secular-liberal front and the Islamist front, broadly understood, are growing increasingly polarised and often violent. A not always visible rift has opened between the student movement and the military, which is now often seen not as the guarantor of the people's demands for freedom and justice but as part of the old regime fighting for its survival. Peaceful protests are now banned and the press is muzzled, write Emma Bonino, vice president of the Italian Senate, and Saad Eddin Ibrahim, founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies.