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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFrom the end of one revolutionary wave to preparing for anotherEgypt's army, with support, used 30 June as the cover for a military coup and for the transformation of the anger...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEl Sisi's tainted legitimacyElections have exposed the fragility of Sisi’s rule and sent up warning signs of the dangerous path that will be...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTaking sides in Egypt’s troubled revolution: but which?War rages on in Egypt: but it is not secular vs religious, it is not a class or gender war…or even a war between...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe people want – but do they have a chance?Nasserism, by far, is the main form of progressive political consciousness that one can find in Egypt, when it takes...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTaming Tahrir (Part 2): re-appropriating Al-Midan and co-opting memoryBy replacing the cement block with gates, the regime is not only curtailing the infrastructure of protest and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaShifting tides for Egypt’s bloggersEgypt's blogosphere and twitter world was buzzing with reminders of how the army and the ministry of interior...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSisi’s EgyptIn this follow-up interview with leading member of the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt, Sameh Naguib, we talk...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA tale of two revolutions: Egypt 2011-2013
Someday, someway, somehow, somebody will do something stupid similar to Mubarak and his "crown" inheritance project...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s bloody coup d’etat
Egyptians must brace themselves for more violence: the proponents of severely curtailed liberties in the name of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThere will be blood: a dispatch from Cairo, Part 2Egypt is divided between the army’s supporters, including many a figure of the Mubarak regime, liberals and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThere will be blood: a dispatch from Cairo
The two competing narratives are so at loggerheads that the country risks being driven down the dangerous road of...
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Published in: HomeWho wants democracy in Egypt? Many!
Barbara Zollner asks: Who wants democracy in Egypt?, as there are increasingly obvious signs that democracy is in...
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Published in: HomeWho wants democracy in Egypt?
How can we make sense of the contradictory arguments? Who actually wants democracy in Egypt? Let’s review the...
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Published in: HomeThe function of violence in Egypt
Violence in Egypt will only be reigned in when it is no longer useful for the security services’ twin purposes of...
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Published in: HomeThe ‘sectarianization’ of Egyptian societyWhat are the particular circumstances in modern Egyptian history that have imparted such weight to sectarian appeals...
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Published in: HomeA militarized media in Egypt: a dirty war making many of us blindThe people will soon see the “true colours” of SCAF – or will they? It depends where they get their information from.
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Published in: HomeHow did the crisis in Egypt snowball? (Part 2)
We could choose between opposing this new authority, boycotting it, or participating in an attempt to contain the...
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Published in: HomeTaming Tahrir (Part One)Tahrir has witnessed five milestones that have eventually resulted in a mixed reality which paves the way for the...
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Published in: HomeEgypt’s coup, liberals' dark chapter
The military's deposition of Egypt's elected president has been welcomed by the Muslim Brotherhood's liberal...
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Published in: HomeEgypt’s long revolution: knowing your enemy
What we have learned so far during these two and a half years of revolution is that people do learn from experience....
