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Farida Makar
Education with a higher goal?
«The season to analyze and dissect constitutional drafts has descended upon us once again. Much like last year, it is accompanied by cold weather and heated…»
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Alfred Raouf
Egypt’s future: Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Joker
«The scene in Egypt is nothing less than a complicated mess: there are several forces, shifting alliances, political stagnation, mass frustration, a failing economy and conspiracy…»
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Sarah Carr
Wrecking ball
«Lots of comparisons are being made between the current mood and goings on in Egypt, and the country as it was before the revolution. Everything is…»
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Elham Eidarous
Leftist reservations
«The fulfillment of revolutionary demands is conditional on the emergence of grassroots social movements and on the utilization of the political sphere in a way that…»
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Heba Afify
Egypt’s hunger games
«While watching the sequel to the “Hunger Games” last Friday, I was stunned to find a striking resemblance between a fictional regime — presented as almost…»
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Rana Sabbagh
Free speech in the Arab world
«AMMAN - Three small but grim pieces were recently added to the great Arab jigsaw — and none of them should surprise us. Last week, an…»
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Yasmin El-Rifae
The constitution of our symbols
«I find myself craving the cinema these days. Something about the idea of images arranged into a purposeful narrative, characters with distinct conflicts to be either…»
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Omar Robert Hamilton
Devastation is upon us
«They say that before you drown a calm fills you. A subtle euphoria loosens your last grip on life. Today, two futures lie ahead of us:…»
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Tom Rollins
Under the pavement
«You can be forgiven for thinking June 30 was the end of something and the beginning of something else. That it certainly was. Since then the…»
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Hala N. Barakat
On food and its sovereignty
«The concept of “food sovereignty” has recently surfaced in public debates, replacing the more widely known term, “food security.” Both terms are about the importance of…»
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Dina Yehia
Egypt’s anti-terrorism legislation
«The Egyptian government has at least two proposed drafts for a new pieces of anti-terrorism legislation, one proposed by the Interior Ministry, the other by the…»
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Paul Sedra
The lies that states tell
«Egypt’s military rulers have a great stake in what is remembered and what is forgotten about the past three years of the country’s history. The clumsy…»
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Lina Attalah
Happy birthday, general
«“Where else have you seen Sisi today?” This is the question around which Sisi Fetish, a new contribution to Egypt’s thriving landscape of political satire, was…»
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Mohamad Salama Adam
Mohamed Mahmoud: The revolutionary romance continues
«On Friday November 25, 2011, one week after the Mohamed Mahmoud events, I was standing near one of the entrances to the Sadat metro station, its tunnels spreading…»
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Dina el-Khawaga
June 30: From a revolution to a coup
«It is wrong to assume that the basis for the current legitimacy in Egypt is derived from the roadmap announced on July 3. The roadmap is…»
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Mohamed Elmeshad
Sport gestures, censored
«Let’s agree that sports and politics mix — it’s a fact. But in recent history, when sports figures don’t reinforce the prevailing power structures is when…»
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Amr Ezzat
Did they beat us to the gallows?
«A boy and a girl in the peak of their youth smile at us with raised fists. Her hair hangs over her shoulder, their gestures are…»
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Mia Jankowicz
A lick of paint
«You probably noticed that Qasr al-Nil Bridge has been repainted in green and lavish gold. Just the other week, the glistering wet paint on the railings leapt out…»
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Timothy E. Kaldas
The trials
«The trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsi will almost certainly be a show trial and is of little consequence. His supporters will dismiss the legitimacy of the court…»
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Céline Lebrun
Death at sea: The via dolorosa of Palestinian refugees
«In the past few days, the dozens of bodies swallowed up by the Mediterranean Sea have drawn the international community's attention to the tragedy of the…»
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