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January 27, 2014
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Samira Shackle
On Friday, in Egypt's largely lawless Sinai Peninsula, a drone strike killed at least four suspected Islamic militants and destroyed a rocket launcher. The attack, which came one day...
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January 27, 2014
Fajer Atef Sehsah
The analysis of the events in Egypt after the military coup remains of vital importance, especially for those interested in political affairs. This not only includes those within the...
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January 27, 2014
Haidar Eid
Palestinians know that if Cairo sneezes then Palestine, especially Gaza, is first to get the flu. Indeed, Gaza often serves as a tool of regime policy, as was the...
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January 27, 2014
Dr Bashir Musa Nafi
It goes without saying that Egyptians are divided. They were divided before the January 25th revolution of 2011 and they were divided once again after the short honeymoon period...
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January 27, 2014
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Fahmi Huwaidi
Egypt needs a miracle. The "positive" development in the past 10 days is that we have moved from denying the crisis to acknowledging its existence, but there remains uncertainty...
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January 27, 2014
Michael Mansfield & Tayab Ali
Just over a year ago, Egypt threw off the shackles of its military dictatorship and took on the mantle of a civil democracy, becoming for a short period, the...
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Let's not beat about the bush. What happened on Wednesday in Egypt was the use of excessive force by soldiers and police. We have witnessed a massacre in every...
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January 27, 2014
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Samira Shackle
Wednesday's events in Rabaa, Egypt, have shocked the world. An estimated 464 people are dead – with the death toll growing – in the greatest loss of life on...
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January 27, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
With the official death toll continuing to rise and sources within the Muslim Brotherhood estimating that thousands of Egyptians were killed in the massacres at Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda...
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January 27, 2014
Dr Rafiq Habib
The coup depends on spreading a state of violence alongside intimidation and fear throughout the whole society. The coup's media has been trying to accuse the Muslim Brotherhood of...
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January 27, 2014
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Yassir Zaatreh
What must be said first is that cornering the protests against the military coup in two arenas only, Raba'a and Al Nahda, was a failed attempt at limiting them...
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January 27, 2014
EuroMid Observer
The EuroMid Observer for Human Rights has documented the killing of at least 1215 protesters across Egypt, of which 914 protesters killed in Cairo, after Egyptian Armed Forces moved...
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January 27, 2014
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Fahmi Huwaidi
If an innocent and good-intentioned citizen who monitors Egypt's news from abroad read Dr. Hazem Al-Beblawi's recent statement, in which he announced his rejection of reconciling with and forgiving...
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January 27, 2014
Hanine Hassan
Prior to the 14 August clashes, the two main protest sites, al-Nahda and Rabaa al-Adawiya, were densely populated with women, children, and men who have been staging a 47...
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January 27, 2014
Mustafa al-Sawaf
The bloodshed in Egypt continues at the hands of those who do not care for Egypt's wellbeing and do not want stability so that they can continue to secure...
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January 27, 2014
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Samira Shackle
America has a problem with Egypt: that much is obvious. Ever since President Mohammed Morsi was deposed by the military on 3 July, the US and other western powers...
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January 27, 2014
Mohamad al-Beltaji
With news of the acquittal and imminent release of Egypt's deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak, the military regime has exposed its ugly face to full view. Since the counterrevolutionary coup...
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January 27, 2014
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Kilic Bugra Kanat
Since the military intervention in Egypt, many observers of Middle Eastern politics have tried to evaluate the geopolitical consequences of the regime change in Egypt. The majority of these...
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January 27, 2014
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Fahmi Huwaidi
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
Douglas Alexander
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
As Sabeel Newspaper, 21 August 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
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Samira Shackle
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
Dr Mahmoud Ghozlan
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
Yusra Ghannouchi
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
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Yassir Zaatreh
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
Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi
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
Yasser Abu Hilalah
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
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Amelia Smith
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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January 27, 2014
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Feras Abu-Helal
There has been a growing controversy over the past two years regarding the creation of an alliance between political Islam and the American project in the region, especially after...
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January 27, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
If one takes his or her information about the Muslim Brotherhood solely from the media reports coming out of Egypt today, he or she could be forgiven for thinking...
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January 27, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
The Egyptian media has done little to restore its image since the removal of President Morsi, smears against the president and the Muslim Brotherhood have been par for the...
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January 27, 2014
Osama Abu Irshaid
The events in Egypt can be read on several levels. On the one hand it is an internal coup against the "Arab Spring" and a counter-revolution against the revolutions...
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