Fahamu (Oxford)
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November 2
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Egypt: We Refuse Economic Bondage - Stop the Loans [document]
A new IMF delegation has arrived in Cairo for negotiations about a renewed loan to Egypt. But the real agenda of Western international financial institutions is to consolidate and... Read more »
July 20
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Egypt: Identity Politics and the Second Republic in Egypt [opinion]
Whereas the new regime of President Morsy says it is inclusive, it is troubling that the draft Egyptian constitution says in its first article that Egypt is 'Islamic' and 'Arab'... Read more »
July 13
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Egypt: With Europe in Crisis, Egypt Must Reverse Course [opinion]
For Egypt, the potentially catastrophic implications of a eurozone collapse points to the urgency of breaking with the Mubarak-era economic policies in a substantive and genuine... Read more »
June 29
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Africa: Sudan and Egypt - The Uprising Continues [analysis]
The renewed Sudan uprising whose genesis can be traced back to December 2010 is now nearly two weeks old. Read more »
June 28
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Egypt: The Electoral Victory of Political Islam
The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising. Read more »
June 22
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Egypt: The Failed Emergence of Egypt, Turkey and Iran [analysis]
These three Middle Eastern states should normally have been found in lists of today's 'emerging' states. They have each attempted, in the past, to modernise as a response to the... Read more »
June 8
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Egypt: Bread, Freedom, Social Justice and Why Global Solidarity Matters [document]
The Egyptian revolution is important for all struggles against militarized power, exploitation, class stratification, and police violence. Join the resistance to the... Read more »
June 1
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Egypt: The Working Class and Question of Organisation
The nascent trade union movement in Egypt will need to develop political structures for the voices of the working class to be heard in electoral processes. Read more »
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Egypt: Revolutions Are Not Decided by Elections - Lessons From the Ongoing Electoral Processes in Egypt [opinion]
I have been monitoring the flames and demonstrations that erupted in Egypt while I have been on the road in East Africa for the past two weeks. Read more »
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Egypt: The First Round of the Presidential Elections in Egypt [analysis]
The first round of the presidential elections was organized to produce the result that Washington and the Egyptian ruling power are pursuing, that is, to reinforce the alliance... Read more »
May 18
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Egypt: Nawal Al Saadawi and the Sky Over Egypt [opinion]
Dr Nawal al Saadawi's continued hope, after decades of persecution by the Egyptian political and religious authorities, and the as yet unfilled promise of Tahrir, offers... Read more »
April 6
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Africa: Why Africa's Biggest Football Club Will Give Up the Beautiful Game [analysis]
Al Ahly are very bitter because no justice has been done after scores of their number were killed in the worst incident of violence inside a stadium since Roman gladiators... Read more »
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Egypt: Egypt's Looming Economic Shock Doctrine [analysis]
Egypt is teetering on the edge of an economic crisis. Cast adrift in a deepening political quagmire over the past fourteen months, the economy has now reached a critical juncture,... Read more »
March 16
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Egypt: Year of the SCAF - A Timeline of Mounting Repression [analysis]
A year has passed since the military assumed power after President Hosni Mubarak was ousted. But is Egypt any closer to the freedom and justice it sought when its people rose up... Read more »
February 24
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Egypt: Egypt - Struggles That Fuelled a Revolution [analysis]
The film 'Bulaq' succeeds in highlighting the fact that strong social ties and a community's sense of ownership of place are far stronger than state plans and oppression. Read more »
February 17
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Egypt: Egypt's Other Revolution - Modernizing the Military-Industrial Complex
Planners in the Egyptian military want to boost the old defense-industrial complex by cultivating new smaller scale projects that partner the Egyptian armed forces with a diverse... Read more »
January 13
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Egypt: The Army and the Economy [opinion]
Should the production of pasta, mineral water, butane gas cylinders and gas station services qualify as classified military secrets? The leaders of the Egyptian Armed Forces... Read more »
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Egypt: Sightings of the Egyptian Deep State [opinion]
With months of violence and political turbulence in Egypt, it is the hybrid military-civilian deep state and its manipulations that could be the greatest cause for worry. Read more »
December 23, 2011
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Egypt: Egypt - Where They Have Burned Books... [analysis]
Set on fire on 17 December, the Egyptian Scientific Institute was another casualty of last week's clashes between the military and protestors in Cairo. Lillian Boctor speaks to... Read more »
November 25, 2011
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Egypt: Unfinished Revolution - Egyptian Activists in Tahrir Square
The second wave of the revolution has come back to Tahrir Square, with thousands of people coming together to reoccupy the space until the ruling military council steps down.... Read more »
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Egypt: Back to Tahrir Square [analysis]
Nine months after Hosni Mubarak was forced out of power, 'hundreds of thousands of Egyptians are back in Tahrir Square and streets across the country' determined 'to reclaim their... Read more »
November 11, 2011
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Egypt: Challenges of Transition [analysis]
Egypt faces many challenges as it heads for elections on 28 November, writes Atul Aneja. Will democracy endure? Can another military coup to bring back ‘stability’ be... Read more »
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Egypt: Egypt - Organising for No Military Trials for Civilians [interview]
Interview with Egyptian activist Shahira Abouellail Read more »
October 21, 2011
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Egypt: Diary of a Revolution (II) [analysis]
Gabriele Habashi gives a gripping account of her experience during the final days of the protests that toppled former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. It is the story of a people... Read more »
October 14, 2011
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Egypt: Military Crackdown At Cairo Protest
On Sunday 9 October 2011, a mass march and protest took place in Cairo, starting from the working-class Shobra neighborhood and gathering in front of the state television building... Read more »
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