Samuel Tadros

Samuel Tadros

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Samuel Tadros is a contributor to the Hoover Institution's Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. He is also a research fellow at the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom and a professorial lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Hudson in 2011, Tadros was a senior partner at the Egyptian Union of Liberal Youth, an organization that aims to spread the ideas of classical liberalism in Egypt.

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From The Mahdi To ISIS

by Samuel Tadrosvia The Caravan
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

In 1881, an obscure local religious leader in Sudan by the name of Mohamed Ahmed declared himself the long awaited Mahdi (divinely guided one). The claim was ridiculous at best, as established religious leaders were quick to proclaim. The prophecies of the coming of the Mahdi, while open to interpretation, clearly did not point to Mohamed Ahmed.

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Fouad’s Way

by Samuel Tadrosvia Hoover Digest
Friday, October 16, 2015

The late Hoover fellow made it his life’s work to teach the United States and the Arab world about each other.

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Remembering Fouad Ajami

by Samuel Tadrosvia Defining Ideas
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Historian, American, Arab—and Citizen of the World.

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Placing ISIS' Persecution Of The Copts In Context

by Samuel Tadrosvia Tony Blair Faith Foundation
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The murder of 21 Christians by ISIS in Libya brought condemnation from around the world. Their murder puts them in a long history of persecution of the Coptic church, writes Samuel Tadros.

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The Arab Spring in Egypt
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Allah Versus KFC

by Mokhtar Awad, Samuel Tadrosvia Foreign Policy
Friday, February 27, 2015
How an unlikely American ideologue is inspiring Egypt’s new generation of Islamic militants.
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Imaginary Egypt

by Samuel Tadrosvia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Egyptians told themselves a thrilling story about their revolution. Then the fable ended where it had begun: with a pharaoh in power.

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The Arab Spring in Egypt
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Dictatorship By Demand

by Samuel Tadrosvia Defining Ideas
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Reflections on the revolution Egypt. 

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The Arab Spring in Egypt
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The Young and Relentless: Reflections on the Revolution in Egypt

by Samuel Tadrosvia Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

That Egypt's revolution has failed is hardly disputable today. The excitement of those magical eighteen days in Tahrir Square and the hopes of a dawn of democracy in Egypt are long gone. Replacing them is widespread despair among Egypt's revolutionary activists and their international cheerleaders.

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Reflections on the Revolution in Egypt

by Samuel Tadrosvia Hoover Press
Sunday, June 1, 2014

The author offers insights on Egypt’s failed revolution: how it happened and why it did not succeed. Samuel Tadros argues that, as Egypt continues on its destructive downward path, it is important to examine the role that its revolutionaries played in that trajectory.

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The Future of Egypt’s Copts

by Samuel Tadrosvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
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