Jamal sent me this: "You may want to point readers to a few items on Tariq al-Bishri. Egyptian English-language blogger Baheyya referenced him several times in recent years as can be seen in these two posts on her blog:
In this piece from 2009 she wrote about how he had critiqued Sadat's constitution in the early 70s for the powers it gave an unaccountable presidency:
In this piece from 2007 she highlights how back in 2004 he had put out a piece defending precisely the types of non-violent resistance that just succeeded in overthrowing Mubarak (needless to say, more meaningful than anything Gene "who's that guy" Sharp):
Finally, regarding your totally correct point about al-Bishri being an enemy of US and Zionist imperialism, point your readers to his roughly decade-old book "al-3arab fi muwajahat al-3udwan"/"The Arabs in the Face of Aggression". I read it many years ago, so I might be slightly off here, but his main thesis as I recall was that in the face of dead subservient regimes, the only places that effective resistance to imperialism has arisen has been where the state is weak: i.e., the Lebanese resistance for example. He did have some kooky 9/11 ideas of the "we don't even know Bin Laden did this" variety, but it didn't take away from his core point. The entire book can be found online here: "
