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Egypt: “I Literally Felt a Bullet Pass Over my Shoulder”

Egyptian photojournalist Mosa’ab Elshamy was shot at, had a bullet fly over his shoulder, and had his equipment stolen as he ventured into Rabaa Al Adawiya, where a pro-Morsi sit-in was violently dispersed in Cairo, Egyp...
by Amira Al Hassaini
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Miley Twerking On Things We Should Talk About

The last few days my Facebook news feed has been inundated with ‘news’ from the MTV Video Music Awards. Newspapers are picking up on the ‘drama’ from the award ceremony, and the internet is aflutter with...
by Natasha Lipman
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How Democracy And Instability In MENA Revealed A Western Existential Crisis

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and democracy are having a hard time making sense with one another. The West has found itself in a sort of existential crisis; the chaos that has erupted in MENA in the search for ...
by Esma Mneina
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Do Egyptians Know or Care who Bassem Youssef is?

What are the chances that an average Egyptian watches Bassem Youssef’s show? Considering digital-television penetration in Egypt is less than 58%, slim to none. Bassem Youssef’s arrest has garnered international media atten...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Collapse Of Libya: The Making Of A Failed State?

Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi was one of the earliest dictators to be ousted by civil uprisings in the context of the Arab Spring. Once the nation’s capital Tripoli fell to rebel forces on 20 August 2011, it was onl...
by Michel Scholer
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Ramadan Flavoured Arrests In Egypt

A year has passed since the ousting of Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi and the new regime has already received a lot of criticism for the declining human rights condition which arbitrary arrest is a big part of. In part...
by Global Voices
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Egyptians Elected Morsi Because…

On Twitter, Egyptians who voted for Mohamed Morsi in the Egyptian Presidential elections in June 24 are remorseful – and their regret is evident in a new hashtag which reads: I elected Morsi because .. The hashtag [ar] #ان...
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The Man with the Gun

As the political crisis in Egypt deepens and anger spreads from Cairo to the different Egyptian governorates, the attention of citizens has turned towards the Egyptian Armed Forces. Some are now hoping that a coup will end not ...
by Maged Mandour
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Beachside Resorts And Insurgency, Trouble In Paradise?

On February 15th, in the first attack on tourists in almost a decade, a tourist bus driving through Egypt’s Sinaï Peninsula was prey to a bomb attack that claimed the lives of two South Korean tour guides, a South Korean tou...
by Timothy Poirson
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