Interesting interview with Ahmed Sheikh, editor-in-chief of the Arabic version of Al Jazeera. It’s very nicely handled by Pierre Neumann from Swiss mag, Die Weltwoche. Here a flavour:

You sound bitter.

Yes, I am.

At whom are you angry?

It’s not only the lack of democracy in the region that makes me worried. I don’t understand why we don’t develop as quickly and dynamically as the rest of the world. We have to face the challenge and say: enough is enough! When a President can stay in power for 25 years, like in Egypt, and he is not in a position to implement reforms, we have a problem. Either the man has to change or he has to be replaced. But the society is not dynamic enough to bring about such a change in a peaceful and constructive fashion.