Dr H.A. Hellyer

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2026

Issue 1

Arcs & Dis-OrderNewsletter

The Iran war and the Gulf nations

Deutsche WelleInterview

The regime change fallacy

Prospect MagazineSubOp-ed

Regional Recalibration After the Iran Strikes

Center for American ProgressAnalysis

Dr. H.A. Hellyer on How Bayan Trains Thinkers

Bayan Graduate SchoolInterview

2025

Maga meets the Middle East

Prospect MagazineSubOp-ed

The Next Aga Khan Is Named

The New York TimesSubQuoted

2024

The Sinwar Delusion

Carnegie EndowmentAnalysis

The Laws of Hegemony

Carnegie EndowmentInterview

Episode 74: Is the Middle East Facing a Regional War?

RUSI (Global Security Briefing podcast)Interview

Interview with Dr H.A. Hellyer

Peace One DayInterview

Why Gaza Forces Europe to Act

Carnegie EndowmentOp-ed

A Palestine Less Than Zero

Carnegie EndowmentOp-ed

2023

Hawaii death toll reaches 89

BBC World Service (Weekend)Interview

2022

Yusif al-Qaradawi Has Died

Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceAnalysis

2022 : A New Breath a New Beginning

RFE/RL The MajlisInterview

2021

The New Geopolitics of the Middle East – Back to the Future?

Centre of Islamic Studies, University of CambridgeTalk

Losing the Narrative

Carnegie EndowmentAnalysis

Will the Page Turn on Turkish-Egyptian Relations?

Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceAnalysis

2020

Obscuring the Occupation: A Visit to Hebron

Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceAnalysis

WSM Day 2

Nur al-Habib FoundationInterview

Muhammad Anwar obituary

The GuardianOp-ed

Muslim Religious Authorities Confront COVID-19

Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceTalk

2019

When Knowledge is Powerless

Carnegie EndowmentAnalysis

Deconstructing Egypt’s Protests

Center for Global PolicyAnalysis

A Difficult Experiment

Carnegie Middle East CenterAnalysis

Islam, the Human Rights Discourse, and Muslim minorities & majorities

Atlantic Council (project) ; video clip embeddedAnalysis

Getting the Arab World & Geopolitics Right

Center for Global PolicyAnalysis

The 18 Days of Tahrir

Dr Hellyer's own site (extract from his book "A Revolution Undone")Academic

2018

Profile in The Muslim 500

The Muslim 500Profile

Sisi's Control of Egypt Is Absolute

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

Hellyer Quoted in AFP on Egyptian Election

AFP (via Daily Mail Online)Quoted

2017

Hellyer Quoted in Union Leader on Arrests in Saudi Arabia

Union Leader (Associated Press story)Quoted

Which Muslim Brotherhood?

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

2016

Egypt’s Currency Catch 22

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

Hellyer Quoted by Agence France-Presse On Sunni Islam Ancient Dispute

Agence France-Presse (carried by Yahoo News)Quoted

The Ideas Behind ISIS

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

Egypt: A Faltering Revolution

Newsweek Middle EastOp-ed

Hellyer Quoted by McClatchy on EgyptAir Plane Crash

McClatchy (carried by Aviation Pros)Quoted

Alawite Identity in Syria

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

The Problem with the Obama Doctrine

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

Hellyer Quoted by Reuters on Sisi’s Power in Egypt

Reuters (read on Yahoo Canada)Quoted

The Regimen of Sisi’s Non-Regime

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

2015

Hellyer on Terrorism in Egypt

The Daily BeastQuoted

Hellyer on Bahgat Arrest

BuzzFeed NewsQuoted

Sisi in London: What to Expect

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

Hellyer on Egypt’s President

The Economist (Erasmus)Quoted

Interview – H.A. Hellyer

E-International RelationsInterview

Egypt at the U.N. in 2015

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

Leading From Everywhere

Foreign AffairsSubAnalysis

Being enthusiastic about Egypt

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

#Jan25 and the Egyptian state

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

2014

A Way Out for Libya

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

Dear Ottawa, from London

The Globe and MailOp-ed

Britain's Radical Challenge

Foreign PolicyOp-ed

Will Egypt’s election be fair?

The Globe and MailOp-ed

Her Majesty’s Big Brother

Foreign PolicyOp-ed

Tony Blair's Misguided Speech on Islamism

Brookings InstitutionAnalysis

X-Raying Egypt's Policy

Afkar-IdeasOp-ed

Free All Journalists in Egypt

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

Three Years After Mubarak - Analysis Pieces

Dr Hellyer's mailing list (links to CNN, Salon and others)Analysis

Egypt's Good, Bad and Ugly

Foreign PolicyOp-ed

In Egypt, many shrug as freedoms disappear

The Washington PostSubQuoted

Not the Onion, but Egypt in 2014

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

The New Year

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

2013

This Is Tragic, This Is Egypt

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

Egypt Has to Learn the Lesson

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

Healing Egypt's Wounds

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

The Egyptian Lobbies

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

The Egyptian Transition

Harvard Kennedy School – Belfer CenterTalk

Accountability Is a Joke in Egypt

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

The Trial of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Washington PostSubOp-ed

Let's Kill Them All

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

The Insult to Egypt

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

Where Are They?

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

What's in a Niqab?

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

State of the Union

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

The American Tea Party of Egypt?

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

Egypt's War...Against Whom?

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

Egyptians Are Forgetting Something

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

Syria

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

Choices

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

A Path out for Egypt

Foreign PolicyOp-ed

Egypt's 'Day After'

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

A Curfew Falls on an Egypt Divided

The Globe and MailOp-ed

Mursi Is No Father of the Nation

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

Maybe Time for the MB?

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

How Morsi Let Egyptians Down

Foreign PolicyOp-ed

Days of Impunity

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

Morsi Is Gone: What Next?

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

The Quandary of June 30

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

What's Behind Morsi's Syria Stance

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

An Argument for Military Voting

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

A Farce

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

The Muslim Brotherhood As Victims

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

Silent Screams from Sinai

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

A Murder in Woolwich

Foreign PolicyOp-ed

Why Egypt's Revolution Continues

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

It's the People, Not the Paper

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

Egypt's Sweltering Summer Ahead

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

J'Accuse

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

The Arab Spring Ain't Over

Atlantic CouncilAnalysis

No Fear: Morsi's Rule of Law

Al Arabiya EnglishOp-ed

The Forecast for Egypt Politics: Overcast

Middle East InstituteAnalysis

Blame the 'OmniOpposition'

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

2012

Critiquing Morsi's Egypt

The Washington PostSubOp-ed

Shape Up or Ship Out

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

From Tahrir to Tel-Aviv

Daily BeastOp-ed

Protests in Egypt: A Cairo Perspective

Brookings InstitutionAnalysis

Egypt's War on Terror

Egypt IndependentOp-ed

The Battle for Al-Azhar

Foreign PolicyOp-ed

In the US with Bassem Youssef

The Egypt MonocleOp-ed

In Egypt, Electing the Future of Islam

The Washington PostSubOp-ed

Can the Muslim Brotherhood Survive?

The Washington PostSubOp-ed

Will Egypt's Faith in Politics Last?

The Washington PostSubOp-ed

2011

Politics and the New Egypt

Khaleej TimesOp-ed

Islam in the New Egypt

The Washington PostSubOp-ed

Muslims of Europe: the "Other" Europeans

Journal of Muslim Minority AffairsAcademic

Dr H.A. Hellyer on Egypt's Revolution

The Kent Ridge CommonOp-ed

Déjà Vu in Tahrir

Foreign PolicyOp-ed

Osama Bin Laden and the Arab Uprising

The Washington PostSubOp-ed

Way Beyond the Referendum

Khaleej TimesOp-ed

How is Religion Informing Libyan Rebels?

The Washington PostSubOp-ed

Multiplying Tahrir Square

Egypt IndependentOp-ed

Revolution in the Arab World: Egypt and Its Challenges

Middle East Law and Governance (Brill)Academic

It's Politics, Stupid

Egypt IndependentOp-ed

A British Lesson in Combatting Extremism

The Washington PostSubOp-ed

Tahrir squared

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

Squaring Tahrir Square

Religion DispatchesOp-ed

Confusion Reigns on Cairo Streets

Religion DispatchesOp-ed

Egyptians Vs. The Police

Religion DispatchesOp-ed

2010

The State of Arab Christians

Daily News EgyptOp-ed

2009

2008

Who Speaks for European Muslims?

Middle East OnlineOp-ed

Muslims in Europe: Precedent and Present

American Journal of Islam and SocietyAcademic

2007

Reply Sidique

Prospect MagazineSubOp-ed

Islam in America

Muslim World Book ReviewAcademic

2006

Muslims and MultiCulturalism in the European Union

Journal of Muslim Minority AffairsAcademic

Us and Them

The GuardianOp-ed

2005

2004

The Future of Europe: In Islam

Islamica MagazineOp-ed

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