Thursday, June 18, 2020
Roba Gaafar As countries around the globe announce their reopening plans and easing of coronavirus lockdown measures, Egypt has witnessed recent a surge in infections, with coronavirus cases…
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Robert Fisk. Khaled Abol Naga – an outspoken critic of the Egyptian government – stands accused of treason ( AFP )It was comical, farcical, droll. An actor’s dream if…
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Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Maged Mandour. Scene One President Abdelfattah Al Sissi, Egypt`s military autocrat is having an interview with the American television program 60 minutes, on CBS. Unlike other interviews, with…
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Saturday, December 1, 2018
Jessica Barnes. The possible link between climate change and political upheaval in the Middle East has attracted increasing media attention and is generating a new wave of academic…
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East. David Kirkpatrick, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. From 2011 to 2015, David Kirkpatrick was the…
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Monday, July 23, 2018
Joel Beinin. Published by MERIP July 12, 2018 The Palestinian Great March of Return, which began on March 30, 2018 and continued into June, was a popular mobilization…
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Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Tom Stevenson. Posted on LA Review of Books, June 27, 2018. ON JANUARY 31, 2017, four lawyers arrived at the steps of Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court on the…
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Translated by Robin Moger. My sister screamed in the night Take me to my brother’s house And there she screamed that same night No no! Take me back…
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Marina Warner. Posted on London Review of Books Vol 40, no 5, March 8, 2018. Art et Liberté was a movement that came into being in 1938 in…
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Saturday, November 25, 2017
Perry Anderson Published in New Left Review March-April 2011 The Arab revolt of 2011 belongs to a rare class of historical events: a concatenation of political upheavals, one…
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Friday, November 3, 2017
Dalia Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi. Book review: Posted on Jadalyya on October 20, 2017. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Daanish Faruqi (DF): As preface, it’s…
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Asef Bayat Posted by Stanford University Press: excepts from chapter one Revolutions of Wrong Times ……… Novel Revolutions? Why did the revolutions of 2011 turn out to be…
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Monday, July 17, 2017
Ahmed Mahdi. This article was first posted on Al Ahram weekly. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi attended a summit of the heads of state of the Nile Basin countries…
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Sunday, July 9, 2017
Sonja Zekri. Sociologist Asef Bayat talks to journalist Sonja Zekri about his views on the Arab spring and his concept of post-Islamism. First published on Koepfe und Ideen…
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Robert Fisk. Posted on ZNet on June 10, 2017. Only Shakespeare’s plays could come close to describing such treachery – the comedies, that is The Qatar crisis proves two…
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Monday, June 5, 2017
Mai Shams El-Din, Mada. For mothers who choose to file paternity lawsuits, proceedings can take years. “I wrote this post just to say that I will not give…
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Saturday, March 18, 2017
Mada Masr. This report first appeared in Mada Masr on December 26, 2016 According to a report published by the independent Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) on…
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Jano Charbel, Mada Masr. Recent nationwide labor protests have found themselves confronted by extraordinary measures of repression as the country continues to weather economic struggles, austerity measures and…
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Mada Masr, Al Arabiya. Over 2,000 workers from the state-owned Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla called off their partial strike on Wednesday. Five of the strike…
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Mada Masr, Al Arabiya. Workers at the International Foodstuffs Co (IFFCO) in Suez have launched a campaign calling for a boycott of the company’s products after 27 workers…
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
Mohammad Ja’far, Libcom.org. Text of a talk by Mohammed Ja’far on the development of the Arab ruling classes during the 1960s and 1970s, their integration into the world…
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Sunday, February 5, 2017
Sharif Abdel Kouddoust, The Intercept. HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS and individual activists in Egypt have been targeted by a large and sophisticated phishing campaign, according to a joint investigation…
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
The New Arab. Women in the Middle East have faced patriarchal prejudice and deeply-rooted discrimination in efforts to bridge the gender chasm and improve female participation in public…
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Sameh Naguib, Revolutionary Socialists. July 2016 marks the beginning of the fourth year of the 3 July coup. The events of the last three years have shown, beyond…
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Aya Nader, Al Monitor. An Egyptian was conducting a study on sewage systems back during the times of Khedivial Cairo (1867-1914). He had to apply for a permit…
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Friday, September 9, 2016
Chris Hamby, BuzzFeed. Say a nation tries to prosecute a corrupt CEO or ban dangerous pollution. Imagine that a company could turn to this super court and sue…
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Thursday, September 1, 2016
Sameh Naguib, Open Democracy. Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of Mubarak’s ouster, but the current conditions in Egypt do not match the jubilation that erupted onto the streets…
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Patrick Clawson, Libcom. An article which first came out in 2014 which remains of interest to anyone interested in fundamentally changing the Middle East. Major work by Patrick…
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
Omar Kassam, Counterpunch. The London Guardian opinion pages spin the story that after 22 years and 7 successes in popular elections in a rapidly growing and pluralist Turkey,…
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Christine Thomas Socialist World Book Review: The Egyptians: a radical story • By Jack Shenker On 3 February the mutilated body of Italian student Giulio Regeni was found…
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