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Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi
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Secular-liberal Egypt on the offensive!
  Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   Secularism and liberalism are not new phenomena in the Muslim world. They came first with the colonists in the last three centuries. Secular liberals were among the elite in progressive countries like India, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, ...
US double-standard justice
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi     When Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy promised, during his Tahrir Square speech to free Sheikh Omar Abdulrahman, I knew he was heading for trouble with the mighty US.  I was right. Soon after, anger was boiling in Washington. ...
Mursi in charge?
  Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   In 1954, two years after their coup, the Egyptian Free Officers issued a decree promising a full return to democracy within four months. Days later, they reneged, dissolved all political parties and confiscated their assets. Accusing all ...
United States of Arabia
  Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi     In the early 1980s, I attended the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Bahrain, as a reporter. It was my first visit to a Gulf country. Hopes and expectations of the council, born in Riyadh in 1981, ...
Winning back a peaceful Iran
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   In its last 1400 years, “Bilad Faris” (old Persia) has been controversial. It went from a fire-worshiping nation to one of the largest Muslim countries, with a new name — Iran.   During its long Islamic history, it fought ...
Egypt: Functioning government at any price?
By Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi     For the first time in the history of their country which is thousands of years old, the Egyptian people are electing their head of state. Still some think that they are replacing one pharaoh with another. Why, ...
Lebanon: Civil War - again?!
  By Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi     My first visit to Lebanon was in 2002. Beirut had begun to recover a few years earlier after a devastating civil war. Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri was leading the comeback of what used to be called ...
Yemen: The road ahead
By Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi   The Romans called it Arabia Felix (Happy Arabia). The Arabs called it Al-Yaman Al-Saeed (Happy Yemen). When I visited it for the first time, in 2005, it was amazingly secured and relaxed, if not happy. President ...
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