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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt has been warned of the violence to come – by General Al-Sisi himself

    It is not often that the international community gets ample notice and an invitation to stop atrocities before they begin. This is precisely what happened earlier this week in...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The Muslim Brotherhood and the army

    For the wide-eyed reporter looking for a dramatic opener to a piece on Egypt, the pro-Morsi sit-in at Rabea al-Adaweya can look like a war-zone. There are barbed-wire barricades...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt must get back on the path of democratic change

    The military coup in Egypt this month and the bloody attacks since, perpetrated by the military and police against supporters of constitutional legitimacy, will form an important turning point...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt's neglected questions

    I have a number of questions regarding the current events in Egypt. The most notable of which are as follows: On July 23, Al-Ahram newspaper published a headline noting...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Today, we are all the Muslim Brotherhood

    I criticised a group of Sudanese who reported that Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi collapsed in front of investigators. They also said that Khairat Al-Shater, the deputy leader of the...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Media portray crisis in Tunisia as Egyptian scenario despite clear differences

    After the events of the Arab Spring, observers in Europe and America turned to watch Tunisia’s development. The consensus was that if Tunisia could make a successful democratic transition...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Tamarod appears to have eased the way for Mubarak remnants to return

    In 2011, protests in Egypt felled a military dictator, Hosni Mubarak. The mass protests of the 25 January Revolution were a rejection of the corruption and repression engendered by...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Is America working against its own interests in Egypt?

    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

    Is it almost time for the Brotherhood?

    Ever since the huge June 30 protests, Egypt has been running on its own time zone. The new military-led government has issued a series of 48-hour warnings aimed at...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Disaster in Egypt has been delayed, not averted

    I have spent many hours of the last week in conversation with Egyptians, both with supporters of the removal of the elected Islamist government of Mohamed Morsi and his...

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