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May 4, 2014

I have today become the president of all Egyptians

My people of great Egypt, who today celebrate democracy in our country; those of you standing in the public squares, in Tahrir Square, and all the public squares of...

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May 4, 2014

Israel: promised land for Jews … as long as they’re not black?

Abstract: While the subjugation and abuse of Palestinians living within Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are well documented, what is less well known is how ingrained racism...

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May 4, 2014

Palestinians and the Egyptian elections

For the moment everything is on hold in Palestine. In the West Bank, as well as the Gaza Strip, there is a tense wait to see how things unfold...

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May 4, 2014

Time for Egypt to unite against the military

Millions of Egyptians went to bed last night thinking they had elected a president with full executive powers and woke up this morning in a military dictatorship. Just after...

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May 4, 2014

Egypt plunges towards the unknown

The ruling by Egypt’s Constitutional Court that dissolves the country’s parliament and allows the presidential candidacy of Ahmad Shafiq, the former Mubarak prime minister, has cast serious doubts over...

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May 4, 2014

We Palestinians are reclaiming our destiny

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake...

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May 4, 2014

More threats of unilateral action by Israel fail to convince

Israeli leaders have an unusual appetite for unilateral action. Some say it’s rooted in Zionist DNA. The incumbent government has spent most of the last three years term either...

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May 4, 2014

Whatever the election result in Egypt, it heralds a new dawn

Now that the votes have been cast, Egyptians are holding their breath. They are not alone; the entire Arab nation and others in the region are also fixated with...

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May 4, 2014

Why the BBC must change

Love it or hate it, the BBC is perhaps the most powerful media institution in the world. Not even the Murdoch empire in its heyday matched the scale and...

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May 4, 2014

Palestinian prisoners are from planet Earth too

Given the contrasting reactions of Western leaders to the case of the former Ukrainian prime minister and that of the Palestinians in Israeli jails, one may think that the...

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