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  • January 27, 2014

    What can we learn from Egypt 2013?

    Genuine democracy requires practice and partnership, and cannot be realised without the participation of the people. Mobilising crowds to replace the ballot box is very dangerous because a lust...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Myths of a confusing time

    I do not know when we will sober up and discern the truth of many of the myths spread across Egypt nowadays. However, I see indications that this sobriety...

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  • January 27, 2014

    A reading of the Western position on the Egyptian coup

    Only a few days after the bloody and treacherous military coup in Egypt on July 3rd, Western governments released timid statements on the issue with a sense of concern...

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  • January 27, 2014

    A rough ride for Egypt's economy

    Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece are enjoying a healthy flow of tourists, thanks to turmoil in the Middle East which has driven holidaymakers away from the Red Sea resorts...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Does Al-Sisi expect Pinochet's fate?

    In the aftermath of the January 25 Revolution, General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that the army’s interference in public life sets back the country by 30 or 40 years....

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  • January 27, 2014

    The arrest of Gehad El-Haddad raises serious concerns about freedom of expression in Egypt

    The arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood’s spokesman, Gehad El-Haddad, had the hallmarks of a kidnapping rather than a conventional arrest. His arrest in Cairo on Tuesday, along with two...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt's very public political and moral suicide

    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

    Are Algeria and Tunisia holding friendly talks?

    Algeria and its neighbour Tunisia have increased the levels of their discrete bilateral cooperation. In a period of roughly a month and a half, Algerian and Tunisian officials met...

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  • January 27, 2014

    What Egypt's military spokesman missed out

    At the end of July, Hamas held a press conference in Gaza in which it presented a number of documents issued by the Palestinian Authority security agencies in Ramallah....

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  • January 27, 2014

    New ban of Muslim Brotherhood is hardly a game-changer

    After the second hearing session into the case, an Egyptian administrative court in Cairo has issued a decision to ban the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s biggest and most...

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