Egypt Unwrapped
Exploring political and social developments in Egypt as the dust continues to settle on the 25 January uprising and the new political landscape it has formed.
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
Actor Waleed Hammad dressed up as a woman and walked Egypt’s streets for an investigative television report into what it feels like to be sexually harassed. The program aired earlier this month, and perhaps best exemplifies one of the major achievements of the January 25 revolution: the heightened awareness of the endemic sexual harassment of women on Egypt’s streets. Hammad’s video footage of his secret assignments, as well as the widespread coverage his story has received, would have...
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Sunday, 12 May, 2013
Whoever became Egypt's first Arab Spring president would have faced almost insurmountable challenges in realizing a stable and successful transition. Egypt's uprising emerged from a broad range of grievances and its transitional leaders have a diverse selection of ideologies and goals, many of which predate January 25, 2011.
Even bearing all this in mind, there is a growing consensus that Mohamed Mursi is universally failing as a leader. A quick glance at social media reveals that a vast ...
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It is a crowded place open only to pedestrians, overflowing with tourists of diverse nationalities trying to get a glimpse of Islamic architecture. On the pavement, tourists gather...
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Sunday, 28 Apr, 2013
Haram Street, the Cairene boulevard famed for its late-night entertainment and tourist traps, was most recently used as the title of a film that broke records at the Egyptian...
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Sunday, 21 Apr, 2013
“The Muslims and Copts are one hand” was one slogan that could be heard ringing out across Tahrir Square throughout the Egyptian revolution. More than two years later, a mo...
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Thursday, 21 Mar, 2013
Bottled water shortages, daily street battles and citizen militias: this is part of the reality in which Egyptians must conduct their daily affairs, two short years after a swe...
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Tuesday, 5 Mar, 2013
“When are they going to fire you?” Hani Shukrallah was asked by his brother, echoing what much of his readership must have been thinking. Shukrallah, the then editor of Eg...
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Thursday, 7 Feb, 2013
It is no secret that many view Mohamed Mursi’s presidency as a huge blow to what the revolution stood for to liberals like myself: a secular state. In the early days, during ...
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Thursday, 31 Jan, 2013
It has not been a good week for Egypt’s president, Mohamed Mursi. Nationwide protests against his rule marked the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on 25 January....
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Thursday, 24 Jan, 2013
In Egypt, and especially in Cairo, the political narrative is currently framed as a polarised battle between two inherently opposed forces. This is completely understandable, g...
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