Demotix / wecancam. All rights reserved. "I have a question, professor." "You are so fortunate. Those are very rare nowadays”, professor Ezz El Arab replied ...
Ties between the military and the branches of government – and the use of military tribunals to try civilians – were a feature of life in Egypt in the latter half of the twentieth-century, including ...
When Egyptians rose up in against the rule of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, many of us believed we were living through the end of a dictatorship. Fifteen years later, it is clearer than ever that what ...
It has been thirteen years since the 2011 Revolution in Egypt toppled Hosni Mubarak. He had been at that point the president of Egypt for thirty years. A recent article, that in part recounted the ...
Karl Marx’s 19th century political journalism holds up a lot better than do his general theories of capitalism, socialism and history. Indeed, the father of modern communism may well have nailed the ...
Jon Alterman: Since Egypt's 2011 revolution, Egyptian politics have been reshaped time and time again. This week we are joined by Killian Clarke, the author of a forthcoming book tentatively entitled ...