Remembering the real Raba’a
Competing myths have emerged around the Raba’a protest camp. But it was neither a terrorist den nor a gathering of freedom and democracy lovers.
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For Buddha and country
The toxic Buddhist-Sinhala supremacism and triumphalism in Sri Lanka means the country’s fragile “peace” is just the prelude to another war.
Read moreEgypt’s underground sisterhood
Egyptian women are under attack from a failing patriarchy. But what is overlooked is that they are fighting back through grassroots emancipation.
Read moreEgypt’s rebels who lost their cause
Can the political alliance between Tamarod and the Egyptian military last, especially as the movement turns on the army’s benefactor, Washington?
Read moreIslamism is the illusion
Islamism is not the solution but is built on an illusion. Islam’s past strength was actually a secular one based on free thought.
Read moreEgypt and the West: the liberal-Islamist paradox
Why do some Western liberals committed to democracy, gender equality and minority support a president and movement that respects none of these?
Read moreDemocracy is (still) the solution
In Egypt, neither Islamism nor jingoism is the solution. We need is a visionary founding document, and the stillborn 1954 constitution fits the bill.
Read moreEgypt explained… in five YouTube videos
A child’s vision of freedom, infamous last words, street democracy, loving men in uniform, and men in hijabs. Seeing Egypt through Egyptian eyes.
Read moreReligious freedom from birth
Unlike eye colour and skin tone, religion is not hereditary. This reality must be reflected in Egyptian identity documents and personal status laws.
Read moreEgypt’s clash of freedoms
Events in Egypt are not just a conflict between Islamists, secularists and the military. It is a fundamental clash over conflicting ideas of “freedom”.
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