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  • January 27, 2014

    Morsi’s trial, between “Defiance” and “hysteria”

    “Defiant” and “challenge” are the words that have been prevalent in most foreign media’s description of deposed president Mohammed Morsi’s trial and his refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Army for the state…not a state for the army

    Those following the military coup’s media campaign will notice its use of the phrase “incitement against the army” to describe anyone criticising the leader of the military coup and...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The Middle East and North Africa suffer the world’s highest depression rates, according to new research.

    The study, recently published in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Journal of Medicine, found that globally, the prevalence of depression was 4.4 per cent, while Afghanistan and the...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The security state has returned to Egypt

    It was reported in Al-Sabah newspaper that 575 soldiers who worked for Mubarak’s security state and were dismissed during the revolution, have been reinstated. I then read of a...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Collaborating out in the open

    I have spent quite a long time trying to determine the definition of the term “collaborating” now being used across Egypt. I resorted to Arabic dictionaries and found that...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Tragicomedies playing out in Egypt

    Egypt in these days of the coup is a state of unprecedented absurdity of a kind not even experienced during the worst tyranny and injustice that began with the...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Ali Gomaa: Kill them, they stink

    “Shoot them in the heart … Blessed are those who kill them, and those who are killed by them . . . We must cleanse our Egypt from these...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Where are the youth of the Egyptian revolution?

    How and why did the Egyptian revolution evolve from a struggle of the youth and the people to an elitist concern? What must we do to restore the role...

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  • January 27, 2014

    A year on: Operation Pillar of Cloud

    Exactly a year has passed since Operation Pillar of Cloud, or defence as it has since been rebranded as, ended. The operation’s stated goal was to deter the rockets...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Rabaa Al-Adawiya massacre reveals what came before it

    Even the supporters of the military coup in Egypt could not handle the story of the Egyptian security forces holding a memorial for the martyrs of the Mohamed Mahmoud...

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