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Tarek Ghanem
O brother, what is prison? On Malek Adly
«Who is Malek Adly, whom the regime is committing all these violations against in an attempt to break his resolve? Does the regime know what kind…»
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Tamer El Said
A report on Mohamed Diab’s Clash: How state TV deals with art
«I’ve never met filmmaker Mohamed Diab and I’ve not watched his new film Ishtibak (Clash, 2016), but I’ve read about it like everyone else. And I did see…»
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Khaled Mansour
World leaders hold humanitarian summit, but is there hope?
«From May 23 to 24 the World Humanitarian Summit was held in Istanbul. Thousands of government officials, diplomats, humanitarian aid managers, and experts met to discuss…»
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The honorable citizens of America who created its repressive regime
«Americans, including academics, have an immense appetite for books, stories and films about the people, processes and details of the Revolution and the Civil War. American academics…»
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Dalia Abdel Hameed
Homosexuality is not a crime
«May 17 marks International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biophobia. While I’m not the biggest fan of global commemoration days, I admit that they do sometimes help…»
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Tamer Waguih
Understanding the latest developments in Egypt’s protests
«Editor’s note: On Saturday, 152 protesters were sentenced to two to five years in prison for participating in protests on April 25, sparked by the transfer of…»
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Nermin Nizar
We came to Alexandria looking for …
«The past in these materials is not well-mannered, beautiful or grand, it is rife with racism and classism — an era in which borders were being…»
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Paul Sedra
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: Book review
«The Egyptian state’s pretense of secularism is central to Saba Mahmood’s latest monograph, Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report»
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Mostafa Mohie
The Journalists Syndicate’s victory
«In an outrageous move, Egyptian security forces stormed the headquarters of the Journalists Syndicate late Sunday night. But what was even more unexpected, perhaps, was the impressive…»
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Tarek Ghanem
Al-Azhar and the dinosaurs
«“Sheikhs issue religious edicts for the price of two chickens. They are no more than stooges of backwardness, feudalism and capitalism.” This is how former President…»
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Zizi
On the possibility of being a queer Arab
«Every individual who becomes aware of the formidable struggles we face every day has an inescapable responsibility.»
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Mohamed Naeem
April 25: A crack in the wall of fear?
«Hundreds were detained in the week leading up to the April 25 protests, including well-known activists and journalists. Some were detained when the police conducted arbitrary…»
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Khaled Fahmy
Giulio, the islands and national security
«On Egypt's security mentality, from suspicion in the National Archives to the killing of Giulio Regini, and how that fits with ceding sovereignty.»
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Amena Sharaf
Egypt’s potential energy pathways
«Egypt just hosted the sixth African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). The theme this year was: "Agenda 2030 and Paris Agreement: From policy to implementation in Africa,"…»
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Amr Adly
Youth unemployment and the ‘Egyptian right wing’
«I watch the TV program “Hona al-Asema” (Here’s the Capital), which airs on the privately owned CBC and is hosted by anchor Lamis al-Hadidy, on a…»
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Nael El Toukhy
Eye to eye: Palestinian-Mizrahi dialogue
«In the video for his first song in Hebrew, To be an Arab, released last summer, Palestinian singer Jowan Safadi shows us a bearded Mizrahi Jew…»
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Abdelrahman Gad
Arab women in search of the disappeared
«The crime of forced disappearance has contributed to the emergence of social movements comprised of the wives and mothers of the disappeared in the Arab region,…»
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Ahmed Khair al-Deen
Egypt’s Contemporary Pharaohs: The ongoing urge for a ‘citadel massacre’
«Egypt’s Contemporary Pharaohs sets out to discover why Egypt's recent rulers have appeared to change so dramatically after coming to power.»
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Amro Ali
Giulio and the Italians of Egypt
«Between the static desert that “ceaselessly wears away” and the perpetual sea that “furiously manifests renewal” is constituted “my first vision of reality.” These are the…»
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Mohamed Seif El Nasr
Palestine: The history of how the land was lost
«On March 30, Palestinians all over the world celebrate Land Day. It marks the pivotal events in 1976 when Palestinians in the Galilee region rose up…»
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