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Detox | What was life like before 2011?
Something was bubbling right under the surface, threatening to overflow.
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art exhibitions • 18 min read
Systems of subtleties: Reflections on MASS Alexandria’s latest exhibition
Ash Moniz | The exhibition is MASS Alexandria's first since 2016.
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2014 Constitution • 12 min read
Sisi seems to reverse position on local council elections, speaker blames ‘deep state’ for delay of bill in Parliament
The delay may point to a power struggle between security and intelligence agencies, sources say.
22 January 2020
downtown Cairo • 10 min read
Your guide to surviving downtown during the revolution anniversary crackdown
"If you can imagine doing so, it is safest to move without your phone."
21 January 2020
detox • 19 min read
Detox: Sleep, reflect, deconstruct
Your weekly guide to unwinding over the weekend.
17 January 2020
Egypt-Ethiopia relations • 5 min read
Egyptian official: Ethiopia dam negotiations in Washington ‘a disaster’
Three days of negotiations in Washington between the foreign and irrigation ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia
16 January 2020
architecture • 18 min read
Detox | Lazy beginnings
Our usual recommendations, if you’re spending the weekend at home in an attempt to fend off the cold
10 January 2020
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Tunisia • 3 min read
Celebrated Tunisian activist Lina Ben Mhenni, who documented revolution and fought for freedoms, dies after long illness
12 hours ago
Hamas • 5 min read
Egypt imposes heavy taxes on gas to Gaza, retreats from reconciliation as punishment for Hamas leader’s Iran visit
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doctor deaths • 7 min read
At doctors’ memorial service, anger and calls for health minister to resign
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Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies • 4 min read
Pompeo expresses ‘outrage’ over prisoner death, rights groups call for Red Cross oversight
20 January 2020
 
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Diptychs from Lebanon’s Revolts
Roi Saade and Tamara Abdul Hadi
 
 
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Nader Andrawos and Alaa Badr
The Arab intellectual, past and present
Is it too self-indulgent to call such an ill-defined group a new intellectual generation?
26 January 2020
Bilal Alaa
A republic deferred, forever
This process is essential for the continuation of the regime — a necessary act of political theater.
15 January 2020
Omar Robert Hamilton
Carbon Colonies & A Green New Deal
Can the climate emergency show us how to see through the political stasis of our current regimes?
14 January 2020
 
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The worker’s rock bottom moment
Andeel | Worker: "What do you mean he is going to be BURIED in it?"
26 December 2016
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