Articles tagged with: morsi
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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 mob of Egyptian Muslims doused Copt Saber Helal with gasoline and set him on fire in a town north of Cairo. How times change—or not.
In reality, the Tahrir Square unity was the aberration, not last week’s sectarian violence. Egypt’s Coptic community—comprising approximately ten percent of the overall populatio...
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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 the presidential race, Mursi was considered by much of the opposition to be the lesser of two evils when compared to rival candidate Ahmed Shafiq, an ex-Mubarakite. The past few weeks have shaken that notion to the ground.
As of last January 25, the revolution’s second anniversary, the country has witnessed nation...
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Friday, 21 Dec, 2012
Away in eastern Egypt, close to the desert border with Israel, there is a simmering regional time bomb which refuses to go away. With all the attention currently focused on the...
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Friday, 14 Dec, 2012
Sameh Makram Ebeid is a man who will not take ‘yes’ for an answer. As a leading member of the Dostour Party—the political grouping established by Nobel laureate Mohamed Al-Ba...
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Monday, 10 Dec, 2012
In an attempt to quell public anger in Egypt, President Morsi has backed off from the controversial decree that he issued a month ago that put him above the law and granted him u...
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This week the world was offered a sickening glimpse of what could happen in Egypt if the current political crisis continues. The violence which erupted in eastern Cairo on ...
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Tuesday, 4 Dec, 2012
A large, rolled-up Arabic rug lies hazardously across the front entrance of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox church in Kensington, London. Ahead, smiling and embracing, groups of men a...
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Wednesday, 28 Nov, 2012
Somebody needs to defuse the crisis in Egypt, or the country is heading for an explosion. Yesterday tens of thousands of people poured into Tahrir Square in scenes reminiscent of t...
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Thursday, 15 Nov, 2012
Egypt’s worsening economic and social situation might have fueled the fire of the 2011 revolution, but two years later most of the same problems persist. The blame is usually...
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Friday, 31 Aug, 2012
The deadlock in Syria has continued for another week with no signs of an end in sight amidst reports of new massacres, faltering attempts to deal with an acute refugee crisis, and ...
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