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Opinion: The world at five minutes to midnight
Felicity Arbuthnot
Quietly and without much media furore, the Doomsday Clock was just moved closer to catastrophe
Scribo ergo sum
Youssef Rakha
The only eyes worth publishing for are those of the anonymous reader somewhere for whom the struggle to understand the world through words still has meaning
Egypt's parliamentary polls: First step on long road
Abdel Moneim Said
Regardless of who won or lost, successful completion of free parliamentary polls opens new chapter in country's history
Appearance and reality
Mona Anis
While an alliance between the ruling SCAF and the Muslim Brotherhood is not impossible, the Salafists might be better suited for this alliance
Prospects for Palestine in 2012
Curtis Doebbler
The Palestinian leadership in its approach to the UN for membership appears to not understand fully the relevant procedure, somewhat suspiciously
Egypt’s liberals and the elections
B M Sabry
While it is important to understand what advantages Islamists had in the elections, it is also important to understand where liberal and secular forces failed
Of bullets, ballots and counter-revolution
Mona Anis
Are there historical parallels to be found for the present twists and turns of the Egyptian Revolution?
The strike wave and the crisis of the Egyptian state
Anne Alexander
My friend the poet and I
Youssef Rakha
The elections, like Tahrir, reflect the conflicting composition of Egyptian society and its reaction to social change
A voter’s dilemma
Mona Anis
The complicated electoral system used in the parliamentary elections has forced many voters to make some impossible choices
Notes on the Egyptian elections
Abdul Ilah Albayaty
Where seculars and the left failed was in realising that elections are won through electors
Three reasons I will not vote
Youssef Rakha
Egypt's women missing from formal politics
Hania Sholkamy

Women who are at the heart of a new and emerging Egypt are absent from formal politics

Sharia in Oklahoma
Abdel Moneim Said

American ruling on sharia may hold lessons for Egypt
A short critique of revolutionary comrades
Samer Soliman

The 1st anniversary of Egypt's revolution is a good opportunity for introspection and soul-searching by those who participated in it
Let the showdown begin
Mona Anis

As the Islamists celebrate a landslide victory in Egypt’s first democratic elections, the question of which political force is likely to ally itself with which other poses itself now

Expansion and contraction
Abdel Moneim Said

Maintaining the value of the Egyptian pound is not a goal in itself but actually a tool of economic policy to end the current inertia
Islamic principles in economic life
Taha Abdel Alim

Until now, no final decision has been made on the use of interest in monetary affairs under Islam, which alone feeds the confusion
Durban fails the world
Curtis Doebbler

At the latest round of global climate talks, held in Durban, yet again the welfare of hundreds of millions was trampled under foot by self-interested developed countries
No more technocrats; coalition government needed
Samer Soliman

Because the interim government was composed of technocrats, it couldn’t garner the strength needed to force reform of state institutions

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