Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Sons of Adam
    Unavailable
    The Sons of Adam
    Unavailable
    The Sons of Adam
    Ebook407 pages5 hours

    The Sons of Adam

    By Alan Mackie

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    A diary kept by journalist Alan Mackie in Cairo in 1973 during the 7 Day War with Israel and the effect it has had on present Egyptian politics and attitudes to the West.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMuswell Press
    Release dateNov 16, 2012
    ISBN9780957213685
    Unavailable
    The Sons of Adam

    Related to The Sons of Adam

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Dream That Became A Nightmare: How Hopes For Egypt’s Arab Spring Uprising Were Crushed

      Jan 28, 2021

      Even the most fervent supporters of the protests called for 25 January did not believe they could amount to much.   Newspaper editor Lina Attalah chose not to assign a reporter to cover the rallies in Cairo, assuming they would be cleared within minu

      10 min read

    • Article

      El-Sisi Win No ‘Feast Of Democracy’ For Egyptians

      Apr 20, 2024

      “Down with dictators! Down with corruption!” On January 25, 2011, Tahrir Square in Cairo was a scene of massive protests as Egyptians took to the streets to demand the resignation of longstanding President Hosni Mubarak. It was a time of fury. The pe

      4 min read

    • Article

      El-Sisi Win No ‘Feast Of Democracy’ For Egyptians

      Apr 20, 2024

      “Down with dictators! Down with corruption!” On January 25, 2011, Tahrir Square in Cairo was a scene of massive protests as Egyptians took to the streets to demand the resignation of longstanding President Hosni Mubarak. It was a time of fury. The pe

      4 min read

    • Article

      El-Sisi Win No ‘Feast Of Democracy’ For Egyptians

      Apr 20, 2024

      “Down with dictators! Down with corruption!” On January 25, 2011, Tahrir Square in Cairo was a scene of massive protests as Egyptians took to the streets to demand the resignation of longstanding President Hosni Mubarak. It was a time of fury. The pe

      4 min read

    • Article

      ‘We Want a Nation’

      May 1, 2021

      ‘We Want a Nation’
      6 min read

    • Article

      Egypt Country Continues To Struggle With Authoritarian Rule

      Jul 15, 2023

      On July 3, the latest military takeover of power in Egypt completed 10 years. On that day in 2013, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the military commander and then-defence minister, led the coup against President Mohammed Morsi. Since then, the el-Sisi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Egypt Country Continues To Struggle With Authoritarian Rule

      Jul 15, 2023

      On July 3, the latest military takeover of power in Egypt completed 10 years. On that day in 2013, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the military commander and then-defence minister, led the coup against President Mohammed Morsi. Since then, the el-Sisi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Egypt Country Continues To Struggle With Authoritarian Rule

      Jul 15, 2023

      On July 3, the latest military takeover of power in Egypt completed 10 years. On that day in 2013, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the military commander and then-defence minister, led the coup against President Mohammed Morsi. Since then, the el-Sisi

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Issues Behind Egypt’s 2011 Revolution Have Not Vanished – They Now Define This Era Around The World

      Jan 28, 2021

      It has been 10 years since events in Egypt began that changed my life and altered the course of history. While part of me is entwined in the complexity of everything that has happened since, both in Egypt and across the world, it remains the case tha

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Arab Spring Failed But The Rage Against Misery And Injustice Continues Today

      Feb 15, 2021

      Ten years ago, people across the Middle East and North Africa rose up in protest against their rulers, demanding freedom and democracy. Despotic rulers were toppled or feared that power was being torn from their grasp in countries across the region,

      4 min read

    • Article

      View From Africa

      Jun 12, 2022

      Back in 2011, the world watched in awe as Egyptians took to the streets to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. Cairo’s Tahrir Square became a physical focal point for these protests but, as the movement harnessed social media’s then nasce

      2 min read

    • Article

      GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES Understanding The Sources Of Military Coups In Africa

      Oct 22, 2023

      The recent coup in Gabon is the latest in a spate of military takeovers occurring across Africa in recent years. Like current and historical African military strongmen, Gabonese interim president General Brice Oligui Nguema has promised to return po

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Strongman Era

      May 14, 2018

      The Strongman Era
      7 min read

    • Article

      Let’s Expose The Demagogues In Our Midst

      Oct 25, 2020

      The Americans blame the Russians for Donald Trump, the British blame Jeremy Corbyn for Boris Johnson, and South Africans want to blame the intra-African ANC fighting for the dream deferred. Perhaps we could realise that we are witnessing a global spe

      4 min read

    • Article

      What Would Our Martyrs Say If They Could See Us Now?

      Apr 11, 2021

      APRIL 6, celebrated during the apartheid era from 1952 to 1994 as Founders Day (Stigtingsdag) in recognition of Jan van Riebeeck’s landing in Table Bay and the subsequent Dutch settlement in Cape Town, is also the day on which the PAC was founded, in

      3 min read

    • Article

      What Would Our Martyrs Say If They Could See Us Now?

      Apr 11, 2021

      APRIL 6, celebrated during the apartheid era from 1952 to 1994 as Founders Day (Stigtingsdag) in recognition of Jan van Riebeeck’s landing in Table Bay and the subsequent Dutch settlement in Cape Town, is also the day on which the PAC was founded, in

      3 min read

    • Article

      Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's Calculating Autocrat, Dies At 91

      Feb 25, 2020

      CAIRO - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a cautious head of state who for decades kept a cold peace with Israel and crushed political dissent at home until a 2011 protest movement overwhelmed his security forces and drove him from power in th

      8 min read

    • Article

      Introducing… Forces For The Declaration Of Freedom And Change

      Oct 23, 2019

      It has become commonplace among cynical commentators to say that the Arab Spring of 2011 and 2012 has come to nought. But while repression has certainly solidified in Cairo and Damascus, democratic reverberations are still being felt in places like A

      2 min read

    Reviews for The Sons of Adam

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words