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		<title>Confessions of a would-be Egyptian revolutionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Returning to Egypt for the first time since the revolution, an expat desktop rebel discovers the inspirational, the troubling and the simply bizarre.]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt needs fundamental, not fundamentalist rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt's new constitution should focus on democracy, equality and human rights, not religious identity or military budgets.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Hizbullah reinvent itself?</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/politics/hizbullah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Hizbullah sides with its brutal backers in Damascus, are the Shi'ite movement's days numbered or can it regain its popularity and credibility?]]></description>
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		<title>Revolution@1: The Egyptian army&#8217;s mutiny against the people</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/egypt/revolution-mutiny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt's junta and its army of collaborators have betrayed the Egyptian revolution, but the people will rise again.]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Egyptian democracy: &#8220;Not like America and not like Iran&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/travel/egypt-not-america-not-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Provincial Egyptians believe that moderate Islamists can construct an Egyptian model of democracy that respects their traditions and identity.]]></description>
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		<title>Secular Egypt: dream or delusion?</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/egypt/secular-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Egypt on the road to theocracy or will it manage to build a secular, pluralist democracy?]]></description>
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		<title>The madness of bigotry</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/multiculturalism/breivik-mad-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Khaled Diab Anders Breivik’s “paranoid schizophrenia” may have pulled the trigger but he chose his victims through the crosshairs of far-right politics. Monday 5 December 2011 A 243-page psychiatric assessment has concluded that Anders Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist who murdered 77 people this summer, was “psychotic” and suffering from “paranoid schizophrenia” during his politically motivated killing spree. The diagnosis has not only shocked the families of Breivik’s victims but it has also divided opinion, both on the left and the right. While some have drawn cold comfort from the notion that Breivik was a “madman” and a “lone wolf”, others have questioned how a man supposedly not in possession of his mental faculties could have planned and executed such an atrocity. “It is completely incomprehensible and surprising that an individual who has planned these acts in such detail and who has proven himself capable of carrying them out should be declared unaccountable,” was the opinion of Per Sandberg, the vice chairman of Norway’s rightwing populist Progress Party, of which Breivik was once a member. Other psychiatrists, both before and after the official diagnosis, have cast doubt on the idea that Breivik was mad. “The 1,518 pages of Breivik’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sacred right to &#8216;insult&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/egypt/sacred-right-to-insult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jailing Egyptians for insulting religion and the military goes against the revolution's spirit, and violates people's secular and sacred rights.]]></description>
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		<title>A drinker&#8217;s guide to Islam</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/reflections/belief/drinkers-guide-to-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although alcohol is 'haraam', Muslim societies have rarely managed to stay on the wagon, and vital parts of their culture have developed under the influence.]]></description>
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		<title>9/12: Turning over a new leaf in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/usa/9-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 10th anniversary of the day after 9/11, it is high time to trash the ‘clash of civilisations’ theory and the ‘war on terror’ and start a new chapter in the West’s relationship with the new Middle East. ]]></description>
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