Paradoxes in Egypt (2) “Modifying of the 2014 Constitution” Political leaders, public figures, journalists and talk show hosts are arguing nowadays necessity of amending the 2014 constitution, in order to change the political system to be presidential instead of parliamentary,… Read More ›
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Egyptian Atheists’ Show; Black Ducks
By: Hassan Kamal Egypt, the bustling country of ninety million inhabitants in the heart of the Middle East, where Islam, through out the land, is the prominent and dominating religion socially and constitutionally for more than a millennia. Birthplace to… Read More ›
Does El-Sisi Support Atheism?
By: Hassan Kamal In a very religious day for Muslims in Ramadan (Laylat al-Qadr), and at the highest Islamic Sunni, Al-Azhar, organizing by Egypt’s religious Endowments Ministry, and presence of Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb, the Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab,… Read More ›
Atheists Are Calling For Democracy in Egypt
CAIRO – After leaving their religions whatever Islam or Christianity and turning to atheism, Egyptian atheists are now calling for establishing a real democracy in Egypt that based on four basic elements; secularization, social contract, enlightenment and liberalism. Hassan Kamal, an… Read More ›
Religion and Politics in Egypt: The Ugly Truth
By: Hassan Kamal In Egypt, every time you turn on the television watching talk show hosting politician or flick through the pages of a local newspaper or social media to read a statement by political party, you learn more about… Read More ›
Atheist Perspective; How to DEFEAT ISIS?
By: Hassan Kamal ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has become significantly one of the biggest terrorist groups on the globe that threats the West and all countries all over the world by bombing, kidnapping, beheading and raping… Read More ›
Egypt’s Sisi; Absence of Rule of Law
By: Hassan Kamal On 18 January 2014, the Egyptian constitution has been adapted with public referendum by Egyptian people. This constitution has stipulated many articles that fairly respect human rights and rule of law, however, when actions came to practice,… Read More ›
The Egyptian National Security Violates Freedom of movement in Constitution
By: Hassan Kamal Today, 17 May 2015, Egypt witnesses a new violation of the constitution by the government itself. While I was in my way to Prague, Czech Republic, to attend the conference about ‘ Crisis Management in Politics’ organized… Read More ›
Why are we turning to Atheism?
By: Hassan Kamal These days, atheism is becoming more and more a common phenomenon for youth in Egypt. The atheists were interviewed by many TV programmes and Egyptian daily newspapers to show their reasons and thoughts about why they move… Read More ›
On Atheism – عن الإلحاد
ON ATHEISM is a new e-book was written by the Egyptian blogger Hassan Kamal, aims to introduce the idea of atheism, in terms of philosophy, to all new atheists, in particular from youth, around the globe, especially in the Middle East… Read More ›
لماذا الحزب العلمانى المصرى؟
كتب: حسن كمال العلمانية كأسلوب فى التفكير ونظرية فى المعرفة كما صكها الفيلسوف المصرى د. مراد وهبه (1926-؟) وهى “التفكير فى النسبى بما هو نسبى وليس بما هو مطلق”. يترتب على هذا التعريف فصل الدين عن الدولة أى فصل الدين… Read More ›
A protest to Support Islam Behery – وقفة احتجاجية لدعم إسلام بحيري
By: Hassan Kamal In the wake of the attacks against Islam Behery and shutting down of his program “Ma3a Islam” that has aimed to renew of the religious discourse in Islam, in order to defeat terrorism and make enlightenment,… Read More ›
Was Nasser Secular?
By: Hassan Kamal Many Western scholars consider the former president of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser as a secular ruler and describe the nature of Nasser’s regime as a secular state because of his stance on the Muslim Brotherhood after the… Read More ›
Egypt and Sharia: According to the Constitutions
By: Hassan Kamal After the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in July 3, 2013, there has been a lot of discussion about the role of Sharia Law in the new constitution and how can be interpreted it again… Read More ›
Why El-Sisi is not Atatürk?
By: Hassan Kamal In recent times, especially after overthrow the former president of Egypt Mohamad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (one of the most popular Islamic fundamentalism movements on the globe) in July 3, 2013, there has been a lot… Read More ›
Averroes Forum Discusses “The Quartet of Democracy”
By: Hassan Kamal In the wake of the Egyptian revolution there has been a lot of discussion about democracy in Egypt, in particular after removal of the former president Mohamed Morsi from the power. In response to this topic, Averroes… Read More ›
On Religious Authority in Islam
By: Hassan Kamal In modern times, many Muslims claim that there is no religious authority in Islam and Islam has no “clergy” in the Christian sense. There is no concept of a “church” and no sacraments. Consequently there are… Read More ›
Fears for Renewal of Religious Discourse
by Hassan Kamal After removal the former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi who has represented the Muslim Brotherhood (one of the most popular Islamic fundamentalism movements on the globe) in July 3, 2013. El-Sisi has stressed in many his speeches to all… Read More ›
El-Sisi Call for Cultural Revolution
Photo Credit: Ahram Newspaper Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi conveyed, during his meeting with groups of writers and intellectuals, importance establishing Cultural Revolution in Egypt by intellectuals, and he emphasized necessity enlighten masses. Read the original news in Arabic from… Read More ›
Do we have political parties in Egypt?
Photo Credit: Noreed By: Hassan Kamal AROUND 90 POLITICAL PARTIES IN EGYPT are established after the Egyptian revolution of 2011; however, many Egyptians don’t believe that political parties really exist. Before the revolution, we had only 24 political parties that were established in coordination with… Read More ›