Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed was a long-serving contributing editor of this magazine, an Egyptian activist and political writer. Sid-Ahmed also wrote four books, only one of which, After the Guns Fall Silent (1976), has been translated into English.

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The Gulf Crisis and the New World Order

The Gulf crisis cannot be regarded as a purely local or regional issue, or a crisis whose worldwide significance is derived only from the importance of Arab oil. More fundamentally, it has become the main testing ground for the rapprochement between East and West as applied to North-South relations.

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed • 4 min read

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Conflicts and Crossroads

On February 16, 1989, the leaders of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen signed an agreement forming the Arab Cooperation Council (ACC), a four-country economic trading bloc, and expressed the hope that it would lead to an Arab common market. On the same day, the leaders of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed • 4 min read

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Nuclear Summits and the Middle East

To what extent can agreements on nuclear disarmament between the superpowers contribute to the reduction of tensions in regional conflicts, particularly in the Middle East?

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed • 3 min read

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The Egyptian Left After the Debacle

The debacle suffered by the Egyptian left at the polls in 1987 -- 2 percent of the vote as compared to 4.5 percent in the 1984 parliamentary elections -- provoked a soul-searching debate in Tagammu‘, the legal party of the left.

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed • 4 min read

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Sadat's Alter Ego

Osman Ahmed Osman, Egypt’s entrepreneurial tycoon, enjoyed a privileged status that cannot be attributed solely to his role as Sadat’s closest confidant, or even to his kinship by marriage with the president. Many Egyptians came to see him as Sadat’s alter ego, minus the latter’s presidential immuni

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed • 6 min read

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"The Masses Speak the Language of Religion to Express Themselves Politically"

Mohamed Sid Ahmed is an Egyptian journalist and left opposition leader. He is a member of the secretariat of Tagammu‘, the National Progressive Unionist Party, and is a representative of the party’s Marxist component. He was an editorial writer with al-Akhbar from 1965 to 1968 and chief political an

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed • 17 min read