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January 27, 2014

Disintegration of the state is the price paid for partial separation of South Sudan

When the countdown to the creation of South Sudan began after the 2010 elections, some western sources described the upcoming state of the south as “predetermined to fail”. They...

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January 27, 2014

On Mubarak-style Nasserism in Egypt

About two weeks ago, Radio 4’s BBC World Service broadcast a programme over four episodes on the Arab world in the contemporary era; the second episode was about the...

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January 27, 2014

The political subtext of Egypt's designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist" organisation

Human Rights Watch has denounced the Egyptian government’s designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist” organisation. It has described the move as a means by which the government...

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January 27, 2014

Excluding the Muslim Brotherhood will not lead to reconciliation

The trial for the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was postponed until next February 1st due to weather conditions that prevented him from being transferred from his prison in...

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January 27, 2014

Legitimising the illegitimate: observation missions at the Egyptian constitutional referendum

On 14h and 15th January the Egyptian military-backed regime held a constitutional referendum in an attempt to bring legitimacy to the political developments that have taken place since the...

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January 27, 2014

US aid to Egypt will sanction military-backed regime

Last week, after an evening pasting ‘No to the Constitution’ posters to walls in Cairo’s downtown Garden City, three volunteers from the Strong Egypt party headed to take a...

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January 27, 2014

Al-Sisi's Egypt re-defines terrorism

If the recent decision by General Al-Sisi’s coup regime regarding the status of the Muslim Brotherhood says anything about the situation in Egypt, it would be that the continuing...

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January 27, 2014

Egypt awaits the international criminal court's response

The international legal team appointed by the Freedom and Justice Party announced yesterday in London that representatives of the “legitimate Egyptian government” have launched an international case against the...

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January 27, 2014

Two historical narratives to the Egyptian crisis

Last Saturday, an Egyptian government fact-finding committee met to discuss the events that took place during the June 30th coup. At the same time, a group of human rights...

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January 27, 2014

Is Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi the only choice for Egyptians?

I will not argue the power of Colonel Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s popularity, but I will allow myself to argue him being the “necessary” man and that there is no...

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