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  • January 27, 2014

    Returning to Tunisia in the era of 'Al-Nahda'

    The last time I visited Tunisia’s capital over a quarter of a century ago, we behaved like the criminals in detective movies. In order to visit Sheikh Rashed al-Ghannouchi,...

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  • January 27, 2014

    ElBaradei is welcoming the counter-revolution

    “The revolution wasn’t an event, it’s a process.“ For some this is Egypt’s post-revolutionary mantra, to be whispered in the middle of the night with clenched fists and gritted...

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  • January 27, 2014

    One year on, has Morsi mastered the tools of authority?

    Two proverbs are worthy of our consideration: “A king can only prevail with his soldiers,” is one, and “the heart of authority is the ability to determine and implement...

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  • January 27, 2014

    There were two sides to these demonstrations

    Was the opposition demonstration in Cairo huge on Sunday? Yes, it was; but so was the crowd supporting the president, although scanning the media you would be hard-pressed to...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Of ballot boxes and the crowd

    The public and political rise of the Islamists in the Arab world did not begin with the Arab Spring. In fact, the shift in their favour started in the...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Morsi has flaws, but toppling an elected government through a military coup does not help the democratic cause

    Things are not looking good for Mohamed Morsi. Egypt’s president – the first to be democratically elected in six decades – is floundering after days of mass protests have...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Bringing down the security walls in Cairo

    Interesting times to be in government. In Egypt at least. There have been resignations and walk-outs. There might be a military coup. First the army, now Egyptian government officials...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt: The counter-revolution

    Some friends were angry at me when I said the following in an article yesterday: “Those who do not want to see that the current violence is between Mubarak’s...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The Egyptians will not forget...

    The military coup in Egypt had a number of results, the most difficult of which for a nascent democracy is the return of the military to the political scene....

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  • January 27, 2014

    A stable Egypt is not in Israel's interests

    Media reports in Israel suggest that the government there would be very happy to see the back of Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi. One Israeli commentator on Arab issues told...

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