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Published in: HomeEgypt: Lessons from Iran
With their admirable courage and perseverance the Egyptian people have achieved a great success in toppling a...
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Published in: HomeThe new middle east: a civic revolution
The democratic wave sweeping the Arab world, and shared by Iran, opens a new agenda for the civic activists who...
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Published in: Home‘Where is India’s Tahrir Square?’
This is a question that may be as interesting for people in Egypt as it is for those in India. The answer also has...
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Published in: HomeArab democracy rising: international lessons
The popular revolts in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the middle east are driven by a profound democratic impulse....
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Published in: HomeNow the party is over, the parties and civil society need to reconstitute themselves in Tahrir Square
Mubarak's totalitarian control of opposition parties and civil society organisations largely delegitimised them. 6...
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Published in: HomeWhy Egypt’s progressives win
In the ascendant in Egypt is the socio-political power of a new national-development-oriented coalition of...
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Published in: HomeHang on a minute with ‘the domino effect’
It is the deeper process of social transformation which should spread from one country to the other and not just...
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Published in: 50.50Bahrain - from national celebration to day of rage
A “palm revolution” in the Gulf? Political upheaval in the desert state of Bahrain: there have been calls for a Day...
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Published in: Home‘Humanity, dignity, liberty’
Maybe the US won’t change its course until the Arab world changes. It is amazing how instantly possibilities present...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab 1989?
The uprisings sweeping across the Middle East portend a political transformation as significant as those of 1989....
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Published in: HomeThe Egyptian Revolution: the desire to be peaceful – and normal – must prevail
Who was the child of Mubarak's speech: each of his Egyptian "children", or the juvenile terror who just won't give...
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Published in: oDRSovereign democracy, Egyptian styleThe similarities between the Egyptian and Russian regime are striking, says Grigorii Golosov. Arguably, Mubarak’s...
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Published in: HomeAfter Mubarak's refusal to leave: which way will the armed pillars of the state jump?
Updated 11am. After Mubarak's refusal to stand down, attention must turn to what the armed pillars of the state will...
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Published in: HomeAmerica’s anaemic reaction to Egypt’s democratic struggle
The leaders of the United States have this time dropped the ball.
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Published in: HomeWhy Mubarak must follow Ben Ali
Egyptians who are systematically raised to believe that their country’s fate is to play a leadership role in the...
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Published in: HomeTahrir Square, February 4, 2011, 5.30am
Interviewee: Islam El Tahtawey is a 23 years old Egyptian opposition demonstrator, a junior auditor in Cairo.
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Published in: HomeUS Middle East policy: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil… just act surprised
None of the Arab Revolts of 2011 have played themselves out as yet. So it will be a while before the Obama...
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Published in: HomeObama, Mubarak, and the Iron Cage of Liberalism
When a nonviolent battle is fought before curious, and sometimes fearful, international audiences, Western...
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Published in: HomeEgypt: after revolt, transition
The explosion of protest in Egypt has emerged from deep currents in the country's modern history. Tarek Osman maps...
