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August 14 Violence
features
Hesham Barakat assassination
68 min read
An organization without a name: How a group of beginners killed Egypt’s prosecutor general
Mohamed Hamama
| A story of a nameless organization and Egypt's most ambitious assassination operation in a quarter century
architecture
8 min read
The day after
Dalia Rabie
| An ambiguous architectural form has been erected in the center of Rabea al-Adaweya Square, which housed
attacks on churches
6 min read
Out of sight, out of mind
Sarah Carr
| MINYA – It was the same scene everywhere: blackened walls, floors littered with detritus, empty
Al-Iman Mosque
5 min read
Grieving families face logistical nightmare at morgue
Mai Shams El-Din
| A day after the bloody dispersal of two Islamist sit-ins by security forces left hundreds dead, the Al-Iman
August 14 Violence
7 min read
First-hand account of Rabea dispersal
Lina Attalah and Mohamad Salama Adam
| We reached the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in at 7 am on Wednesday, about an hour after the police and Armed
Opinion
Paul Sedra
From citizen to problem: The new Coptic tokenism
The Foreign Ministry released a statement this past Thursday that was entirely without precedent, and
Tom Rollins
Protesting public space
Mission accomplished, as far as the authorities are concerned. Rabea al-Adaweya is gone. When the presidency
News
August 14 Violence
4 min read
Appeals Court uhpolds death sentence, long prison terms in Sidi Gaber case
Assem Abdel Meguid
4 min read
Jama’a al-Islamiya leader sentenced to 15 years for killing protesters
August 14 Violence
2 min read
Gov’t report on post-June 30 violence to be publicly released
August 14 Violence
3 min read
National committee rejects HRW report
Armed Forces
10 min read
Update: HRW calls for Sisi to be held accountable for role in protesters’ deaths
August 14 Violence
5 min read
Human Rights Watch denied entry into Cairo
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