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Vijay Prashad
The Indian Left
« The Indian Left stands, undaunted, despite a concerted effort to remove it from the political scene. As the election for the 15th parliament picks up…»
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Motaz Atalla
This way time becomes a loop: To Ali Shaath
«Last week was Ali Shaath's birthday, his first without him. Ali Shaath fi zimmat ilLah (Ali Shaath is in God’s care). These were the words, at first an inconspicuous phrase like any other on my Facebook newsfeed,…»
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Mohamed Gad
Arabtec project not on the house
«Millions of Egyptians dream of affordable houses, and so does Arabtec. The United Arab Emitates-based Arabtec Holding Co., the biggest construction company in the Dubai stock…»
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Hani Atalla
The dam
«The scenes on the television screen were gruesome: a baby sucking on a dried breast, a man crawling on all four because his skinny legs could…»
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Alaa Abd El Fattah
Lysenko’s time
«While Alaa Abd El Fattah stands trial for breaking the protest law, we publish his latest article, written in Tora prison on March 9. At the…»
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Isabel Bottoms
World Water Day: Egypt’s polluted waters
«Along the Rosetta branch of the Nile, Kafr al-Sheikh recently suffered a “mass fish die-off." Given the almost annual regularity of such die-offs it was surprising to see a…»
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Moritz Mihatsch
The nationalist phoenix rises
«Since January 2011 Egypt rose against its long-standing dictator, removed him from office, entered a muddled transition period and a myriad of referenda and elections ensued.…»
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Isabel Esterman
Before talking tourism, Egypt needs to put its house in order
«The sight of the great pyramids of Giza looming suddenly above the urban chaos of the Haram district is one of the most astonishing vistas the…»
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Isabel Bottoms
In search of an energy vision
«Amidst the fragmented politics of the last six months, one of the most pressing questions has been how Egypt would meet its energy demands from 2014…»
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Alaa Abd El Fattah
Everyone knows
«The state insists that its prisons are free of political detainees. But everyone knows that the prisons are full of dissidents held “temporarily” against a background…»
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Wael Eskandar
The military war on alcohol
«Just before the Ahmed Hamdy tunnel, which links Egypt's main bulk of land to the Sinai Peninsula, there are two consecutive checkpoints. One of them is…»
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Mika Minio-Paluello
Cold: A silent killer in Egypt
«Yesterday's hailstorm and rainstorm across Egypt brought a reminder that the harsh winter isn't over yet.* The excitement over the “snow” in December and the exasperation…»
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Mostafa Hussein
Africa has cured AIDS many times before
«The Egyptian military, with their recently announced Complete Cure device, is hardly the first to claim unproven cures for diseases that have ravaged millions of lives. Since the…»
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Abdel-Rahman Hussein
I, me, mine
«I've been hard pressed to recall a time when Egypt was not subject to the whim of one man. For the majority of my life that…»
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Yahia Shawkat
The promise of a new housing minister and the policies Egyptians deserve
«Mostafa Madbuly is the fourth housing minister since January 2011, the beginning of a revolution that called for social justice. It is rather unprecedented that the…»
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Alaa Abd El Fattah
Autism
«In prison I try to make up for my inactivity, my helplessness, by reading. Maybe I can get information or wisdom that would be of use…»
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Timothy E. Kaldas
Hypocrisy abounds
«One sad truth about politics in Egypt today — and there are many — is the extraordinary abundance of hypocrisy. From revolutionaries to Salafis, the…»
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Shanta Devarajan
Is higher minimum wage the solution?
«The recent article in Mada Masr on Egypt’s new public-sector minimum wage “falling short” makes the right point — that it will exacerbate inequality — but…»
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Fatma Emam Sakory
The police: fear and racism
«I grew up in the 1990s, and was unlucky to have my school located just next to a police station. I was brought up in Ein…»
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Karim Medhat Ennarah
The politics of mobilization and demobilization (Part 2)
«The 2011 revolution was essentially a game changer, but from Hosni Mubarak stepping down and throughout the presidency of Mohamed Morsi, most of the rules of…»
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