Sign in Welcome! Log into your account your username your password Forgot your password? Get help Create an account Create an account Welcome! Register for an account your email your username A password will be e-mailed to you. Password recovery Recover your password your email A password will be e-mailed to you. Obama’s Swan Song 560 January 22, 2016 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Published in Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt) on 19 January 2016 by Abdel-Moneim Said (link to originallink to original) Translated from English by . Edited by . Back To Origin This post appeared on the front page as a direct link to the original article with the above link . Tags:Barack ObamaEgyptState of the UnionTerrorism Hot this week Block titleFeaturedAll time popularMore South Africa: How SA and Canada Are Looking Beyond the US September 4, 2026. Published in Business Day 0 Australia: Trump Suggests He Would Not Help UK in Another Falklands Clash September 3, 2026. Published in Sydney Morning Herald 0 Canada: From a Canadian Woman Soldier to Pete Hegseth: Our Uniforms Weren’t Designed To Be Sexy September 4, 2026. Published in Toronto Star 0 South Africa: The Bond Market Is Beginning To Revolt against America September 4, 2026. Published in Daily Maverick 0 Australia: As the Iran War Flares, Donald Trump Looks for an Exit To Ease Mounting Political Pain September 8, 2026. Published in ABC News Australia 0 Topics South Africa: Why the 2026 Yen Intervention Matters for Gold, Bitcoin and the Dollar September 9, 2026. Published in Business Day 0 South Africa: Kevin Warsh’s Quiet Fed in a Face-Off with Bessent’s Treasury September 9, 2026. Published in Daily Maverick 0 Australia: As the Iran War Flares, Donald Trump Looks for an Exit To Ease Mounting Political Pain September 8, 2026. Published in ABC News Australia 0 Canada: Why Donald Trump’s Trolling of Canada Is the Same Old Playbook of a Businessman Flop September 8, 2026. Published in Toronto Star 0 Canada: Ignore Donald Trump’s Trolling, What He Does Next Should Concern Us September 8, 2026. Published in Toronto Sun 0 Canada: A Dumb and Dumber Trade War September 8, 2026. Published in Toronto Star 0 United States of America: Post-Constitutionalism September 8, 2026. Published in La Cronica de HoyThe Constitution was the last nail in the coffin of feudalism, and it was the bourgeoisie who wielded the hammer. 0 India: Sanctions, Strikes, Stalemate: Trump Tightens the Noose, Iran Refuses To Blink September 7, 2026. Published in FirstpostUnless Trump is persuaded to return to the negotiating table, this cycle of violence is bound to persist. 0 Related Articles Germany: Even the Forever Young Former President Is 80 Now August 24, 2026. Published in Süddeutsche ZeitungObama is the only one of the group of former presidents who is not yet 80. Egypt: Egypt and the United States: Building the Next Generation of Strategic Partnership July 6, 2026. Published in Ahram OnlineThe central question is...the expansion of its strategic content and its capacity to generate shared value in a rapidly changing world. Brazil: Terrorism To Suit the Customer’s Taste* June 7, 2026. Published in Folha de São Paulo Trump is not exactly a legal scholar. If he wanted to dispatch his gunboats here, he wouldn’t need a judicial pretext. Egypt: The Middle East after the Trump-Xi Summit May 29, 2026. Published in Ahram OnlineThe Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue. Saudi Arabia: Will Trump Conclude a Deal like Obama’s? May 26, 2026. Published in Arab NewsThe Trump administration and the Tehran regime are both cornered and in need of some agreement. Previous articleTrump’s FractureNext articleHard to Come by: US Cannot Be Trusted on Nuclear Deal LEAVE A REPLY Cancel replyLog in to leave a comment