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detox
43 min read
Detox | What was life like before 2011?
Something was bubbling right under the surface, threatening to overflow.
Sudan
7 min read
Sudan’s revolution 1 year on: Families of disappeared, martyrs still wait for justice
Mohammed Amin
| Military members of the government, especially Hemedti, are likely responsible for the violence.
Mahmoud al-Sisi
14 min read
President’s eldest son, Mahmoud al-Sisi, sidelined from powerful intelligence position to diplomatic mission in Russia
The move seeks to alleviate growing tensions within the intelligence apparatus about his role
Lebanon protests
16 min read
Southern Lebanon is in revolt too
Omar Said
| “They say we are against the revolution? Who? The people of the South? We are the resistance.”
Lebanon protests
13 min read
Lebanon’s Tripoli rises above lingering effects of war to revolt
Omar Said
| The demonstrations in Tripoli have a different feel from those in the rest of the country.
Lebanon conversations
5 min read
Conversations from the Lebanese uprising | Ahmad El Assi: The movement is an opportunity to end the civil war
Omar Said
| Our tactical demand is establishing a transitional government that has financial & social priorities
protester arrests
8 min read
Biggest wave of arrests since Sisi took office: 1909 people detained
Amnesty International demanded that the authorities allow protests to take place tomorrow
Mohamed Ali videos
5 min read
Mohamed Ali fallout continues: Sisi mulls canceling New York trip amid high-level meetings to combat ‘destabilization campaign’
General Intelligence Service Chief Abbas Kamel believes that the move would send a negative message.
Egypt-Sudan relations
8 min read
12 killed in nationwide anti-austerity demonstrations in Sudan as police use tear gas and live rounds to disperse protesters
Popular protests in Sudan sparked by inflation, food shortages and rising prices enter third day
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Opinion
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?
Soheir Asaad
Tali’at: Our Struggle to Reclaim Politics
Our national struggle has yet to develop a radical, non-hierarchical understanding of liberation
Omar Sirri and Renad Mansour
Surviving on violence: Iraq’s political elite
Violence has helped to sustain this status quo and prevent meaningful reform that could help Iraqis.
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protests
5 min read
Heavy police presence, random searches around Tahrir ahead of Sept. 20 protest anniversary
Mohamed Ali videos
11 min read
Heavy security clampdown on anti-Sisi protests as state mobilizes supporters to rally
protests
5 min read
Scattered protests emerge in cities across Egypt Friday night
Donald Trump
2 min read
10 people released, 2 journalists detained following protests against US Jerusalem announcement
protest law
5 min read
Interior Ministry forbids downtown Cairo protest against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
Palestine
4 min read
Cairo demonstrators protest US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, arrests reported
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