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January 29, 2014
Prof John Esposito
Like a political tsunami uprisings swept across much of the Arab world, toppling in rapid succession the entrenched autocratic regimes of Zeinul Abedin Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak...
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January 28, 2014
Yezid Sayigh
US Secretary of State John Kerry has been preoccupied with the Middle East recently. After visiting Egypt and Saudi Arabia in order to repair damaged relations, he headed to...
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January 28, 2014
Muhammad Abdin
Balance and openness to new prospects of cooperation are the most prominent characteristics of Egypt's post-revolution foreign policy and President Mohammad Morsi's first term in office. Morsi has been...
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Are we witnessing the dissolution of the Egyptian revolution without realising it? To show you what I mean, let us recall what happened to the revolution led by Prime...
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January 27, 2014
Feras Abu-Helal
For the first time since the coup, the US administration has taken a clear position towards the situation in Egypt. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that the...
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January 27, 2014
Samir Al Hijawi
A fool may throw a stone into a well but 100 sane people cannot remove it, says the proverb. To paraphrase its sentiments, a few crazy people can put...
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January 27, 2014
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Dr Fadi Elhusseini
Over the past few weeks, I have been dismayed by the degree of intolerance and rigidity of the quarrelling parties in Egypt; both have been on the defensive, unwilling...
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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
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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
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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
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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
Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Since President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem in 1977, Egypt has been in a dark tunnel that has altered the country from an Arab state to an "Arab crisis"....
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January 27, 2014
Sharif Abdulrahman Saif
Nowadays, Egypt is witnessing the absurdity of the coup-backed media spreading lies to demonise the coup's opponents and then calling on those who have been named to prove their...
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January 27, 2014
Ă–mer Aslan
Part I The Turkish military has often been compared and contrasted in scholarly writing with its counterparts either in Western Europe or in Latin America. Secular-minded Turkish scholars scorn...
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January 27, 2014
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Samira Shackle
Since Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi, was ousted in a military coup on 3 July, the US has been in an awkward position. An automatic Congressional instrument halts military aid...
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January 27, 2014
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Mohamed Al-Jawadi
It was not only natural for the Egyptian media to side with the coup leadership, but also inevitable. The media has played a key role in Egyptian politics for...
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January 27, 2014
Magdy Hussein
In the New Labour Party, we were silent about the endless initiatives and negotiations, discussed during the National Coalition to Support Legitimacy meetings, because we were sure they would...
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January 27, 2014
Dr Abdullah Al-Ashaal
I have warned over the years that US-Iran rapprochement will end all the current political considerations based on conflict between Washington and Tehran, and I called for Arab-Iranian talks...
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January 27, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Last week, after an evening pasting 'No to the Constitution' posters to walls in Cairo's downtown Garden City, three volunteers from the Strong Egypt party headed to take a...
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January 24, 2014
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Ibrahim Hewitt
The spectacle of a senior American diplomat emphasising how much she is going to work for Israel was surprising only in its openness. When Samantha Power told a Senate...
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January 24, 2014
Ufuk Ulutas & Sabrien Amrov
The Arab Spring arrived 10 years after George W. Bush declared the advent of the "war on terror". The events of September 11 allowed the Bush administration to launch...
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January 24, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
The Egyptian army and Israel have grown much closer in the weeks since the coup d'etat. In a Ha'aretz report, Amos Harel, suggested that the Egyptian and Israeli relationship...
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The Obama administration's decision to suspend some military aid to Egypt is a clear case of better late than never. Although an announcement was originally planned for August, its...
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January 24, 2014
Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi
I do not want the approval of the late great thinker, Mohammad Abed al-Jabri, in my use of the term 'Arab mind'. This term is problematic because it gives...