Egypt’s revolution in the breaking
Although Egypt has been eclipsed on the Western media radar, it remains caught in a deadly bind between popular jingoism and religious demagoguery.
Read MoreAlthough Egypt has been eclipsed on the Western media radar, it remains caught in a deadly bind between popular jingoism and religious demagoguery.
Read MoreCompeting myths have emerged around the Raba’a protest camp. But it was neither a terrorist den nor a gathering of freedom and democracy lovers.
Read MoreThe toxic Buddhist-Sinhala supremacism and triumphalism in Sri Lanka means the country’s fragile “peace” is just the prelude to another war.
Read MoreEgyptian women are under attack from a failing patriarchy. But what is overlooked is that they are fighting back through grassroots emancipation.
Read MorePunishing a dictator for killing his own people by killing yet more of them is not the answer. It didn’t work in Iraq, and it won’t work in Syria.
Read MoreCan the political alliance between Tamarod and the Egyptian military last, especially as the movement turns on the army’s benefactor, Washington?
Read MoreWhy is Israel, despite being a minor player, seen by so many Egyptians and others in the region as the master puppeteer behind the crisis in Egypt?
Read MoreWith the prospect of reconciliation a long way off and to prevent civil war, people in Egypt need to form a united front against all political violence.With the prospect of reconciliation a long way off and to prevent civil war, Egyptians need to form a united front against all political violence.
Read MoreIslamism is not the solution but is built on an illusion. Islam’s past strength was actually a secular one based on free thought.
Read MoreHanding Egypt’s security services a licence to repress the Muslim Brotherhood will return us to the police state the revolution worked to overthrow.
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