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January 27, 2014

Our sadness is doubled

Our sadness is doubled. We went to sleep with the massacre of prisoners while being transferred to Abu Zaabal prison, and woke up to the slaughter of soldiers in...

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January 27, 2014

This was a coup: we must support Egypt’s people, not its generals

The international response to the events in Egypt has been uncertain and hesitant. Governments and citizens alike seem to have been caught off-guard by the bloodshed that followed the...

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January 27, 2014

The Muslim Brotherhood: a history of arrests from 1948 to 2013

In 1948 they returned from the war in Palestine and were taken to detention camps in Mount Sinai, and today they have won five elections in the post-revolutionary period,...

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January 27, 2014

Political reconciliation and economic recovery look distant in Egypt

As the bloodshed in Egypt worsens, the country’s economic situation has been consigned to a postscript in most news coverage, while death tolls, political grappling, and western intervention make...

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January 27, 2014

The Muslim Brotherhood’s position on terrorism

Terrorism is an accusation made by the powerful against the weak as an excuse to commit the ugliest forms of terrorism against the weak while making the claim to...

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January 27, 2014

The media and its role in spreading a dichotomous narrative in Tunisia

To focus on media coverage of the tumultuous convulsions through which post-revolution countries are going may seem a luxury in the current crisis. Yet an analysis of the role...

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January 27, 2014

Asma Al-Beltagi: the child who is an icon of Rabaa Al-Adawiyyah

Asmaa Mohammed Al-Beltagi was a child in the legal sense of the word. At just 17 years old, she was mature for her age in terms of outlook and...

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January 27, 2014

The foundations on which the Egyptian and Tunisian Springs can be saved

The new Pinochet-style government in Egypt has followed in the footsteps of the George W Bush administration, with national television now displaying the slogan, permanently and in very clear...

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January 27, 2014

The detention weapon backfires on coup leaders

The legitimacy supporters in Egypt are winning every day because of the constant blunders of the coup leaders. The army in Egypt does not behave like a national army...

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January 27, 2014

An old enemy, a new dictator

In Egypt, General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of the Egyptian armed forces is now the most powerful man in the land. While Hitler and Mussolini were invited, or voted into...

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