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  • January 27, 2014

    Setting out to defame a political opponent

    When a journalist sets out to defame a political opponent, whoever it may be, finding the reasoning behind it will not be difficult, whatever the motive may be, whatever...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Morsi’s support for Palestinian cause “fuelled coup”

    The Vice President of Egypt’s Al-Wasat Party has claimed that President Morsi’s support for the Palestinian cause “fuelled” the coup against him. The result, said Dr Essam Sultan, is...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Memo to El-Baradei – You Can’t Eat Neoliberalism

    Shortly before riding into the vice-presidency of Egypt on the back of military tanks, Muhammad el-Baradei told Foreign Policy “You Can’t Eat Sharia” in a criticism of the policies...

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  • January 27, 2014

    What does the military coup mean?

    One of the characteristics of military coups is that the forces which carry them out rarely know much about the objectives of their actions. Indeed, this is true of...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The drums of civil war are beating

    Although I heard General Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi call on the people to take to the streets and squares on Friday to give him a mandate to deal with the...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Who benefits from distorting the January revolution?

    My biggest fear is that the uprising Egypt witnessed on June 30 2013 will be utilised to attack the revolution of January 25 2011 in a manner that makes...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt has been warned of the violence to come – by General Al-Sisi himself

    It is not often that the international community gets ample notice and an invitation to stop atrocities before they begin. This is precisely what happened earlier this week in...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The Muslim Brotherhood and the army

    For the wide-eyed reporter looking for a dramatic opener to a piece on Egypt, the pro-Morsi sit-in at Rabea al-Adaweya can look like a war-zone. There are barbed-wire barricades...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt must get back on the path of democratic change

    The military coup in Egypt this month and the bloody attacks since, perpetrated by the military and police against supporters of constitutional legitimacy, will form an important turning point...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt’s neglected questions

    I have a number of questions regarding the current events in Egypt. The most notable of which are as follows: On July 23, Al-Ahram newspaper published a headline noting...

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