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Jack Shenker
Beyond the voice of battle
«No matter how many times you witness it, the transformation is still a dizzying one. Kiosks that once vended chocolate and cigarettes, deployed as a gunman’s…»
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Sarah Carr
With or against us
«It's trite but worth remembering that an excellent barometer of political freedom is how a regime treats the media. Deposed President Mohamed Morsi attempted to shut…»
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Paul Sedra
From citizen to problem: The new Coptic tokenism
«The Foreign Ministry released a statement this past Thursday that was entirely without precedent, and yet it received practically no media attention amidst the political turmoil…»
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Omar Robert Hamilton
Everything was possible
«I sit, for the 12th hour now, alone and struggling for what to do. For the first time since I got on a plane for Egypt…»
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Tom Rollins
Protesting public space
«Mission accomplished, as far as the authorities are concerned. Rabea al-Adaweya is gone. When the presidency announced that mediation with the Muslim Brotherhood had failed, Al-Azhar…»
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Noha Roushdy
3 roads to patriarchy — 3 roads to freedom
«Road One I was walking away from a protest at Saad Zaghloul Square on June 30 when I overheard two men heatedly engaged in a joint tirade against what…»
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Ashraf El-Sherif
The Brotherhood’s downfall (part 1)
«The fall of the Brotherhood is the rational outcome of the group’s political, organizational and ideological makeup. This realization challenges the Brothers’ own propaganda informed by…»
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Andeel
A dab hand: Straight from rifle to heart
«I listen to the same music you listen to, we have similar taste in women, I’m as ugly as everything around you, go on, eat the…»
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Sarah Carr
The popular war on terror
«Today in Egypt, supporters of a deposed president who hasn’t been seen or heard from in 21 days spend some of their time holding “parliamentary” sessions…»
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Mohamed I. Fahmy Menza
The future of the Brotherhood
«A few years ago, some social scientists propagated the concept of “post-Islamist” politics. They were referring to the gradual ascendance of cultural and identity-based, yet youth-oriented…»
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Omar Robert Hamilton
Totalitarian democracy
«The cover of the current issue of Time Magazine calls Egyptians “the world’s best protestors” and “the world’s worst democrats.” The startling ignorance of this cover…»
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Michael Meyer-Resende
Groundhog Day in Cairo
«It feels like Groundhog Day in Cairo. Again, as in early 2011, masses of people demonstrated against the president; again, the military stepped in and seized…»
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Ola Galal
Resurgent nationalism
«“God is Great! Long live Egypt!” Amr Adib, an anchor on Al-Qahera al-Youm (Cairo Today) talk show, shouted as he waved the country’s tricolor flag minutes…»
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Sharif S Elmusa
Rebels beware of the bears that hug your generals
«The young people of Egypt led the January 25 revolution, and the army inherited it first, then the army jointly with the Muslim Brothers. And now…»
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Omar Robert Hamilton
Selective memories
«I am neither a supporter of Mohamed Morsi nor of the Egyptian military. To place oneself in either camp is to assert an allegiance to hierarchy,…»
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Adel Iskandar
The inevitable restart
«There was a smell of inevitability in the air. We could not make out whether it was the inevitability of change or the permanence of that…»
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Sarah Carr
On sheep and infidels
«Before I begin, let me state some facts, so that when people begin the ad hominem attacks they can try to rein them in within the…»
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Timothy E. Kaldas
Did we get the US position on Egypt wrong?
«There is a popular sense that the United States strongly supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and had a deep interest in its coming to power.…»
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Sherif Elsayed
America’s Prism: Our fears of the digital age come true
«If the allegations over the extent of Prism’s mass data collection are true, then it would be a grotesque manifestation of all our fears about the…»
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Sharif S Elmusa
A make or break moment in Egypt?
«I was asked to write an article about the intensified dispute over the Nile River as part of the inauguration of this new website, launched by…»
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