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Sharif Abdel Kouddous
When prisoners vanish
«Omar Abdel Maqsoud and his brothers have been locked up for five months. They were arrested in April and imprisoned in the Meit Ghamr police station…»
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Alia Mossallam
The prison in us
«About a month ago I went to visit a friend in prison. It doesn’t matter who he or she was, since there are now hundreds of…»
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Paul Sedra
The Salaita case and Middle East studies
«On September 11, the University of Illinois Board of Trustees will vote on whether or not to honor an employment contract that Professor Steven Salaita signed…»
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Mada Masr
Escalating reprisals against human rights defenders
«Prominent young activists are in jail, stigmatization of human rights defenders has increased and further legal measures against human rights groups are expected. One could hardly…»
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Sharif S Elmusa
Sharing the Nile waters according to needs
«There may not be enough water for everybody to get all they want from the Nile’s waters, but sharing the burdens as well as the benefits…»
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Sara Khorshid
Yet another fighter
« We saw a revolution erupt, then we saw it die. We saw people whom we once thought were good show an ugly face. We saw…»
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Alaa Abd El Fattah
An open letter
«At 4 pm today, I celebrated with my colleagues my last meal in prison. I have decided — when I saw my father fighting against death…»
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Timothy E. Kaldas
Ferguson’s lessons for Egypt
«What’s unfolding in Ferguson Missouri is undoubtedly a terrible sight. A young unarmed man was shot at least six times and killed by a police officer.…»
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Moritz Mihatsch
Welcome to the post-Westphalia dystopia
«Since the group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared a caliphate, a lot has been written about the movement — but…»
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Omar Robert Hamilton
On Alaa’s hunger strike
«After three spells of imprisonment since the start of the revolution, Alaa Abd El Fattah has declared that he is starting a hunger strike. Alaa is one…»
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Sharif S Elmusa
To act or not to act like a state
«Scrolling through pictures on the Internet the other day in the middle of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, two struck me as incongruous. One photograph was of…»
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laura.gribbon
Delga, one year later
«Twenty kilometers separate the city of Dir Mouass, the district’s capital, and the village of Delga, which gained notoriety during the second half of last year.…»
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Laura Bird
Guarding sites of memory
«There is an indelibility of violence, as with other massacres, that is in some ways more deeply reinforced by aggressive or nervous attempts to erase it…»
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Philip Rizk
On August 14, a belated obituary for Bassem Mohsen
«I met Bassem Mohsen for a few moments in July 2013. He was upbeat and hopeful that the army had taken hold of power from the…»
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Omar Robert Hamilton
Ripples in the cyberpysche
«While Israel’s manipulation of mainstream media bears the silken hallmarks of years of research, training and lobbying, the PR battles being fought online over this latest…»
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Omar Robert Hamilton
Cycles of rhetoric and violence
«What was remarkably clear during this latest assault on Gaza is that cycles of violence are perpetuated and reinforced by cycles of rhetoric. The Israeli PR…»
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Ahmed Ezzat
Law to hush up NGOs
«Along the lines of the protest law, which the government enforced to restrain the public sphere and hinder opposition, the government is planning to pass a…»
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Sherene Seikaly
Palestine as archive
«A man and his young son sit on two cement blocks, surrounded by piles of rubble that were once their home, on the edges of what…»
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Sharif S Elmusa
Egypt’s cease-fire initiative and sacrifice for Palestine
«Whether out of bureaucratic inertia, miscalculation or intention, the Egyptian government made a cease-fire proposal in the early days of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza.…»
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Ursula Lindsey
The regime’s new clothes
«Sometime in June, cars in Egypt began displaying plain sheets of A4 paper with the sentence: “Have you prayed for the Prophet today?” There was nothing…»
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