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  • January 27, 2014

    Truth will prevail

    After the military coup against elected President Mohamed Morsi, we can say that the January 25 revolution has ended. The blood and sacrifice of that revolution appear to have...

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  • January 27, 2014

    An elected president is more important than political difference

    I write this piece after all that was hidden was disclosed. It is a piece not addressed to political opponents or those who I thought were political opponents; it...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egyptians use TV remote control to search for news

    Despite the internet age and the global village, as well as Facebook and Twitter, it is hard to know exactly what is happening in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Squares...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt: betrayal of democracy will benefit Islamists

    Egypt’s Minister of Defence, Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, and the leaders of the National Salvation Front underestimated the strength of the Islamic current, led by the Muslim Brotherhood, when they...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Counter-revolution or corrective revolution?

    Many people attribute the ongoing crisis and the coup against Morsi and his government in Egypt to the Brotherhood’s failure in running the state. They also attribute this failure...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The bitter reality of the military coup

    The leaders of the Egyptian army have taken Egypt back nearly a 100 years…. they have taken it back to the era of military coups, which were prevalent in...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Are the coup supporters against Morsi or democracy itself?

    It doesn’t really matter if you are for or against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi; nor is it important for you to be convinced of the integrity of the Muslim...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The Generals Are Back

    In Robert Ludlum’s The Aquitaine Progression, the story begins with protagonist Joel Converse meeting a man he has not seen in 20 years, dying violently at his feet whispering...

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  • January 27, 2014

    If only it was a coup with the US playing a role

    We can debate whether the incident in Egypt was a popular revolution against Muslim Brotherhood tyranny or a military coup against its democratic legitimacy, but in my view the...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt: Liberal Hypocrisy No Laughing Matter

    Part-time comedian Bassem Youssef is the kind of Egyptian that liberals in the West can relate to. He was feted in Western media as a cause celebre for freedom...

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