The sad story of one duplicitous MP illustrates how complex life and politics become in the age of global media
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Egypt has remained in a state of relative industrial backwardness until now due to its tendency to adopt anti-industry economic policies imposed by corrupt interests and the edicts of globalisation
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On 18th anniversary of Ibrahimi Mosque massacre, Jewish settlers - backed by Israeli political/security establishment - are still striving to make lives of Hebron's Palestinians a living hell
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How to get rid of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Asad while holding onto the non-violent character of the Syrian revolution - a proposed strategy
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Islamic law, or Sharia, is a matter of reading - as even the experience of Iran's Islamic republic shows. In this is a lesson worth considering by Egypt's Islamists
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Khadr Adnan's agonising ordeal, which lasted for 66 days and could have ended with his death, seems to have succeeded in drawing attention to Israel's use of arbitrary detention
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In exclusive opinion piece for Al-Ahram, Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie hails Egypt's 'blessed revolution,' calls on Egyptians to work together towards 'modern, democratic state'
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Letter to Iran's nonviolent revolutionaries on the eve of announced silent demonstrations
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Again this year, the World Economic Forum builds an unbreachable wall between itself and its failed ideas and the rest of the world
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The transition from a neoliberal comprador police state to a democratic welfare state is a momentous task that demands calm and tactful collective effort
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Egypt now has a legitimate parliament with much work to do; a far cry from the revolutionary street justice some have been calling for
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A year into the revolution, much has changed, but more hasn’t — at least yet
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