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Mostafa Hussein
Psychiatry, politics and propaganda
«I get irritated when I see psychiatrists, some of whom taught me the profession, using the stigma of mental illness to strike low blows at political…»
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Abdelrahman Gad
Could an Egyptian Madres de Plaza de Mayo be taking shape?
«As in Argentina, groups of Egyptians — mostly women — have come together to draw attention to the cases of their disappeared relatives»
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Alia Mossallam
A letter that won’t make it to prison
«I hope that the few paragraphs I will choose out of this letter make it to you, and I hope that all I have censored hits…»
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Kareem Ibrahim
Urbanization, informal areas and the new Cabinet
«Since the mid-1990s, the Egyptian government has adopted neoliberal economic policies, reflected in real estate and the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. This has been evidenced…»
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Timothy E. Kaldas
What happens if the Egyptian pound keeps falling?
«The Egyptian pound is likely to continue to decline in value, and indeed needs to accelerate its decline to reach its real market value. Investment Minister…»
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Nael El Toukhy
How Hebrew teaches us something about ourselves, Part 3
«The awe-inspiring passage of the trilateral root, from Hebrew to Arabic and back.»
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Nael El Toukhy
How Hebrew teaches us something about ourselves, Part 2
«Am I normalizing with Israel?»
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Khaled Mansour
The disgrace we should not embrace
«Egypt is neck deep in an Orwellian swamp where names obscure rather than explain the institutions behind them. Egypt’s great writer Yusuf Idris summed up early…»
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Nael El Toukhy
How Hebrew teaches us something about ourselves, Part 1
«A personal and not-so-personal account»
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Timothy E. Kaldas
Exaggeration invites criticism of ‘New’ Suez Canal
«Any review of international coverage of the Suez Canal expansion will come to the same conclusion, that reporting was predominantly negative. Bloomberg’s headline read “Egypt Shows Off $8 Billion Suez Canal Expansion…»
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Sharif S Elmusa
The West’s debt to Greece, and the rest
«The political drama of Greece’s debt — which has only entered a new chapter with the latest deal in Brussels — kept reminding me of an…»
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Sally Toma
My survivor’s guilt: Coping with the trauma of loss
«I first met Mina Danial in Tahrir Square, following the bloody events of the Battle of the Camel. I believed in him from our first…»
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Yasmin El-Rifae
Circles about circles: On writing about sexual violence
«I was part of Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault (OpAntiSH), one of several groups that fought mob attacks against women in Tahrir from 2012 onward. This piece is…»
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A North Sinai resident
Terrorism and the city
«Death has become the cheap currency of the city. Citizens are killed by both sides everyday. If they are killed by the militants, then they are…»
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Ricard Gonzalez
Why I felt forced to leave Egypt
«Working as a correspondent in Egypt is not easy nowadays. Two weeks ago, I had to leave Egypt in a hurry, the country that I had…»
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Amro Ali
A frightening vision: On plans to rebuild the Alexandria Lighthouse
«It's no easy feat to restore the seventh wonder of the ancient world, but then along came modern-day Egyptian exceptionalism.»
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Hussein Kamal
Health is a public ‘good’
«Health economics has been a field of economics that has attracted great interest since the publication of Kenneth J. Arrow’s article, ‘Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics…»
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Dirk Wanrooij
PalFest: Between occupation and literature
«On May 28, the annual Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) came to a close after a week of literary events in various locations across the occupied…»
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Walid el-Houri
‘Dear Chancellor Merkel’: On good and bad tyrants
«In anticipation of the recent visit of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Germany, five international human rights groups sent an open letter to German Chancellor…»
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Omar Robert Hamilton
On returning from Palestine
«At the border it is always the same questions. Do you have another name? Do you have another passport? What is your father’s name? What is…»
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