Articles tagged with: english
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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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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 Egypt’s largest English-language news website, Ahram Online, had his answer by the start of the new year.
Shukrallah bid farewell to Ahram Online in January this year after allegedly being shown the door by the ruling Muslim Brotherhood. The former editor announced on Facebook that “the deed is done: the MB has n...
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Tuesday, 28 Feb, 2012
A few days before Christmas last year, and just after another wave of deadly rioting had erupted in Cairo following the first round of parliamentary elections, an Egyptian news...
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Friday, 30 Sep, 2011
Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror and Jihad have Changed the English Language
Fred Halliday
IB Tauris 2010
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers,...
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