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What Next? Uncertainties Continue in the Wake of the Egyptian Court Decision

Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court was the site of the latest major event in Egypt’s ongoing unpredictable political transformation. Wow. The verdict of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court today...

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Ousting the Brotherhood: Take That America?

What happens when the US and Egyptians differ on the meaning of “democratically elected”? Photo by Malak Rouchdy Last Spring I gave the keynote address at the regional Model Arab League, which Miami...

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Bassem Youssef and the Future of Public Discourse in Egypt

Will Bassem Yussef be silenced for making fun of sweets featuring the Field Marshal’s face? Photo alarabiya.net “Bassem, we need you now,” one of my Egyptian friends posted on her Facebook status...

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Egypt’s Morsi Is Guilty Of Something Even If Its Not What he’s Charged With

Mohammed Morsi. Photo Credit: Jonathan Rashad via Compfight cc There was a very interesting editorial in Lebanon’s Al-Nahar newspaper Nov. 6. It’s in Arabic, but here’s my gloss: The author, Monalisa...

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Dark Ironies of the Egyptian Revolution

The interim government’s New Year’s message: Don’t protest against the government without its permission, don’t resist the security forces who attack you, and don’t report news about any of that stuff,...

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Love And Fear in Egypt

Autocratic and democratic regimes are pretty much the same, says Joseph Massad in an article in the journal Public Culture. The chief difference is whether they seek to rule by love or fear. “The...

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Cleaning Up Cairo

One of the things I teach my students about power in my Peoples of the World class at Miami University is that power rests in the ways that we discipline ourselves to some moral order. We make power...

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What Would A Muslim Brotherhood State Have Looked Like?

It’s one of the greatest controversies of the revolution: What would the state overseen by Egypt’s President Morsi have looked like if he had not been ousted in a popularly-supported military coup? The...

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Morsi Must Die

There seems to be one thing that Egyptian dictator as-Sisi and ISIL agree on: Mohammed Morsi must die. ISIS was the first to voice this position, in a May 2014 video by spokesperson Abu Muhammad...

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