The Egyptians have grown in confidence, theyve tasted freedom, and theres no way back.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.