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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt's Kung Fu champion evokes memories of the 1968 black power salute

    Wearing a yellow t-shirt with the familiar Rabaa salute, Egyptian Kung Fu champion Mohammed Youssef stepped up to receive his gold medal at the World Championship in Russia this...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Chasing away the Tunisian revolution

    Al-Nahda Party is struggling to make sure that what happened to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt does not happen in Tunisia. More importantly, the party is working towards sparing...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Protecting the creative voices of the Arab Uprising

    Last week rapper Ahmed Ben Ahmed was released after three weeks in prison. The Tunisian artist, aka Klay BBJ, was originally sentenced to 21 months in prison for ‘insulting...

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  • January 27, 2014

    How credible is the claim of the failure of political Islam?

    Whenever the Islamists suffer a setback, or even a small decline in votes, some Western experts monitoring the Islamic Movement’s path rush to proclaim to the world that political...

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  • January 27, 2014

    A revealing phone conversation

    I was having lunch when my Egyptian line rang. The caller was Dr Osama al-Ghazali Harb, head of the Democratic Front Party, a member of the National Salvation Front,...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Modernising but Non-Democratising Armies? Part II

    In the first part of this two-part series, a comparison was drawn between the Turkish and Egyptian armies. This comparison highlighted potential pitfalls that could occur before civilian control...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Egypt: its status, history and the Palestinian case

    Ever since the beginning of Egypt’s incitement campaign against Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza, including the attempts to disfigure the image of the Palestinian resistance in Egyptian media,...

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  • January 27, 2014

    The trial of the century versus the scandal of the century

    According to the announcement made by the coup government in Egypt, today, November 4th, marks the beginning of the trial of President Mohamed Morsi on numerous counts. The most...

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  • January 27, 2014

    Morsi is the strongest, most legitimate person in this farcical trial

    Perhaps the military rulers will realise, in the coming days that the presence of the elected president Mohamed Morsi, in the presidency cage would be much more merciful and...

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  • January 27, 2014

    In Egypt and democratic countries

    A state is a political and lawful unit that consists of three components and three main branches and powers. The components of the state are territory, the people and...

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