Articles tagged with: youth
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Monday, 29 Apr, 2013
It was clear from day one that President Mohamed Mursi and his government would face a daunting task at the helm of the Egyptian state. Hosni Mubarak’s civil order was mostly imposed through fear and coercion; political participation was a luxury enjoyed by only a select few. More significantly, the former president’s late economic reforms never managed to narrow the colossal gap between a rich minority and the millions of poor.
Today, Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood are struggling t...
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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 sweeping revolution vowed to clean out the old order and pave a path to a more promising future. Yet, power grabs, political deadlock and a president daily losing popular support and becoming what some perceive to be a poor man’s Mubarak are now the status quo, and not what the revolutionaries set out to achieve.
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Tuesday, 1 May, 2012
On 30 April 1970, US President Richard Nixon addressed the nation on the subject of a planned invasion of Cambodia. Over the next few days, anti-war demonstrations erupted ...
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While it was largely the youth who launched revolutions against the status quo in a number of Arab countries, it has been the veteran politicians and political parties in those...
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Tuesday, 24 Jan, 2012
Securing the Arab Revolutions: Opportunities and Dangers
Wadah Khanfar, chaired by Mehdi Hasan
SOAS
Wadah Khanfar defined the Arab Spring as the uprising not only...
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Andam Omar, like many young men in their twenties, enjoys the ever-developing face of Erbil, the de facto capital of Kurdish Iraq. At the new—and expansive—Tablo Mall he bo...
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Friday, 23 Sep, 2011
The youthful energy that brought about the revolution and held millions in downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square for several weeks has inspired many young, independent creators. The...
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Wednesday, 21 Sep, 2011
Mustafa is watching carefully. His brother Amr is sensibly taking apart an assault rifle, snapping parts apart and laying them onto a table in their father’s garage in Ras La...
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Thursday, 16 Jun, 2011
Since the coup that brought him to power in 1987, until his ouster in 2011, President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali has tried to eradicate the memory of his predecessor, Habib Bourgu...
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