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About Daniel Swift

Daniel Swift writes regularly for the New York Times and Al-Ahram Weekly in Cairo.

Articles by Daniel Swift

Thursday 10th April

Saad Eddin Ibrahim: through the Arab looking glass

Daniel Swift, 10 April 2003
A democratic scholar-activist in Egypt is now free after a three-year ordeal of trial and imprisonment on hollow charges. But the individual story of Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a naturalised American citizen, is less one of law and human rights than of an Egyptian state caught between authoritarian rule and strategic and financial dependence on the United States.
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