Former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei had a triumphant welcome back to Egypt last week. Hundreds, or even thousands of Egyptians waited at Cairo airport for hours the arrival of the national “saviour”.

ElBaradei started soon a round of talks with politicians and activists, publicly challenging Mubarak’s regime while advancing his possible candidature as President of the Republic for the 2011 electoral round. For many Egyptians, that was synonymous of new hope. But, until now and beside the mainstream political storm, the ElBaradei’s option is just in the mind of a small Egyptian niche which need to connect with the large majority of the population. That would transform simple hope in reality.

Check the article “El Baradei! Chi era costui?” on the Italian on-line review PeaceReporter.

The new decade began in the Middle East with the same old, but recently forgotten, confessional problems. Events reminiscent of the tough “ages of sectarianism” of the biennium 2005-2007, when Shiites and Sunnis forces staged political and military clashes around the region. But beside the recent sectarian episodes in Egypt, Yemen, Irak, and Lebanon, it [...]

The tragic events of the Coptic Christmas’ eve in Naga Hammadi, where 6 copts and 1 muslim officer has been killed, opened a tough debate on the Egyptian national press on the state of confessionalism within the country of the pharaohs.
Beside the worldwide indignation for the facts occurred and the worldwide protests ignited by the [...]

The waters of the Nile, the long African-Mediterranean river, are again under threat. Egypt and Sudan, the states that mostly benefit from the river resources, are currently facing the claims of the other Nile basin states for a fair share of its waters. Ethiopia loudly expresses its demands. Meanwhile, Israel Minister of Foreign Affairs embarks [...]