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Published in: HomeThe Black-Mask Gang
Let us come up with a covenant between all the trends, currents and political parties of Egypt. Mastering the art of...
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Published in: HomeEgypt: taking people for fools
They justify, and justify, and cannot stop justifying, and I think the fact that someone needs to justify everything...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaI can’t believe it’s not Qatar!: addressing the Brotherhood’s other patron
If the Arab uprisings have taught us anything, it is that the Arab public represents a formidable challenge to power...
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Published in: HomeIt’s not me, it’s you: a bad Egyptian break-up
Just as Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have been continuously accused of hijacking and jumping on the coattails of...
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Published in: HomeNational myth in Egypt
Unless we, the people, and the regime that is in charge of the country, admit that we are very close to rock bottom,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA crisis in identity: Egypt’s opposition is caught up in a futile debate
Secular versus Islamist barely scratches the surface of the conflicts that best Egypt.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTwo years on: a revolution is a process, not an event
2013 has many surprises in store for Egypt.
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Published in: HomeEgypt’s crisis deserves a better set of calculations
We need achievable goals that we can see before we die, we need what is known as SMART goals.
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Published in: HomeEgyptian implications of an enforced constitution
What will the activists in Tahrir Square demand next, once the constitution is passed? Is it expected that they will...
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Published in: HomeFixing the rules of the game
Now the roadmap is clear for both paths in Egypt – the yes-path and the no-path – which was something we distinctly...
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Published in: HomeConstitutional highway to theocracy
Egypt's constitutional draft should be rejected, the draft contains many dangers regarding private property, the...
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Published in: 50.50State complicity in the sexual abuse of women in Cairo
There is a growing belief that the post-revolution spate of sexual attacks on women is a reflection of a large-scale...
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Published in: HomeBrothers in the hood: Egypt’s soft powers and the Arab world
The question riding on the chaos being played out – from the burning offices of the Freedom and Justice Party to the...
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Published in: HomeWho to blame and what to hope for
What is unique and difficult about this new chapter in the developing saga is that it is the Egyptian people...
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Published in: HomeEnough with the mess
The opposition, the liberals and seculars at Tahrir need to avail themselves of the new spaces that they could use...
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Published in: HomeThe Egyptian revolution: take two?
What happened on January 25, 2011 was not a revolution. What happened last week was reminiscent of January 25, but...
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Published in: 50.50Harassment free zone
Why isn’t anybody doing anything? Attempting to curb sexual harassment by targeting the harassers is very...
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Published in: HomeThe President and the fatal trilateral logic of US, Egyptian and Israeli relations
Morsi has shown that his policy on the Palestinians is no more imaginative than Mubarak-era policies and, partly as...
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Published in: HomeOn the subject of pornography: what the politicians are up to
Don’t they realize that once they start prosecuting people for breaching these rules, this is just the beginning of...
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Published in: HomeCommodifying Islam in Egypt
Tahrir Square has recently been taken over by the Salafists to demand Islamic rule in the constitution and hence in...