The polarised debate over Arab women overlooks the fact that men can be victims of the patriarchy too and their identity is a cultural battlefield.
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Returning to Egypt for the first time since the revolution, an expat desktop rebel discovers the inspirational, the troubling and the simply bizarre.
Bestselling Israeli historian Shlomo Sand on identity politics, political despair, why Lieberman is right... and drowning sorrows with Mahmoud Darwish.
Which is more empowering or threatening for the gay community: the idea that sexuality is a lifestyle choice (unnatural) or an innate trait (natural)?
Fundamentalists in America and Egypt are obsessed with "virtue "and "vice". But the rise of Islamists threatens to bind Egyptian women in a moral vice.
Egypt's junta and its army of collaborators have betrayed the Egyptian revolution, but the people will rise again.
The banning of a Jewish festival this year in Egypt is wrong, both from a secular and religious perspective.
The Hebron settlers feel demonised by the mainstream media, and say reports of settler violence are exaggerated and some are even "black flag" ops.
The settlers in Hebron are widely regarded as the enemies of peace. That's why I, as an Egyptian, decided it was essential to get to know them.
