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January 27, 2014

Why designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist organisation"?

By designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist organisation” the interim Egyptian government has hammered the final nail in the coffin of any political settlement that could have mended...

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January 27, 2014

When will our tyrants learn from their idiocy?

The results of a number of security solutions to national and international issues will not last long despite their current effectiveness. While some regimes have managed to suppress their...

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January 27, 2014

Does the Muslim Brotherhood still have a role to play in Egypt's revolutionary politics?

What role can the Muslim Brotherhood, with its current ideological standpoint, play in the post-Arab Spring era in Egypt and following the ouster of its political leader Mohamed Morsi...

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January 27, 2014

The winners and the losers in Tunisia's political dialogue

Aside from the debate over its relative success or failure, the political dialogue in Tunisia marked the end of one turbulent era and the beginning of another, perhaps more...

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January 27, 2014

Morsi is being prosecuted on conspiracy charges; do us a favour, credit us with some intelligence, please!

For some Egyptian politicians to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood and its leaders is expected; for most of the media to be recruited in an attack against the movement is...

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January 27, 2014

Disintegration of the state is the price paid for partial separation of South Sudan

When the countdown to the creation of South Sudan began after the 2010 elections, some western sources described the upcoming state of the south as “predetermined to fail”. They...

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January 27, 2014

On Mubarak-style Nasserism in Egypt

About two weeks ago, Radio 4’s BBC World Service broadcast a programme over four episodes on the Arab world in the contemporary era; the second episode was about the...

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January 27, 2014

The political subtext of Egypt's designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist" organisation

Human Rights Watch has denounced the Egyptian government’s designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a “terrorist” organisation. It has described the move as a means by which the government...

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January 27, 2014

Excluding the Muslim Brotherhood will not lead to reconciliation

The trial for the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was postponed until next February 1st due to weather conditions that prevented him from being transferred from his prison in...

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January 27, 2014

Legitimising the illegitimate: observation missions at the Egyptian constitutional referendum

On 14h and 15th January the Egyptian military-backed regime held a constitutional referendum in an attempt to bring legitimacy to the political developments that have taken place since the...

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