13 days ago by Youssef Rakha

A Week of Laughter and Forgetting: Day Five A year after its outbreak, Youssef Rakha lists seven of the more revealing flights of humour that have punctuated the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath After Mubarak stepped down, much of the hilarity centred on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ ...

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16 days ago by Bloggin Muslim

Have you ever felt like Muslim matchmaking sites not only charge too much for membership, but are also trying to sell you things while you search? “Cheap international calls!” “Social Muslim networking!” You’ll notice these banner ads, text ads, and if they hold your email address, you may be on a s ...

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38 days ago by Khalid Amayreh

It is quite heartening that leaders of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers are speaking of their disdain and contempt of the 1979 Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel. It seems also prudent that the Islamist party, evidently the largest in Egypt, will not embark on a rash feat that could invite uncalculat ...

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39 days ago by Lux et Libertas

. CBN's Stakelbeck on Terror is an interesting show: See also: Qaradawi’s Odious Vision, Andrew Bostom, National Review Online, December 6, 2011 Muslim Brotherhood: Extremist Islamic Group, Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson New York, December 2, 2011 The Voice of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Alexander Smoltc ...

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53 days ago by zabinzo

عام 2011 كان عاما أسود على أدمغة الطغاة حول العالم. فلم يحدث في تاريخ البشرية أن تعرض هذا العدد الكبير من الحكام الدكتاتوريين للفشخ على هذا النحو المبهج في سنة واحدة وقد غادر عالمنا أمس طاغوت كوريا الشمالية المغفور له كيم جونج إيل رضي الله عنه بعد أن جوع شعبه وقتل منه الملايين بينما استمتع هو بملذات ...

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67 days ago by Youssef Rakha

Responding to recent Facebook “notes” by the poet Mohab Nasr — an Alexandrian schoolteacher turned Kuwait-based journalist and, since 25 January, perhaps the most honest critic of the Egyptian human being — Youssef Rakha unpacks the concept of the People Back in January, my friend Mohab (b. 1962) wa ...

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71 days ago by Youssef Rakha

1-The Martyrs. It seems utterly insensible to start holding this “national wedding” – as Egypt’s first “free” parliamentary elections have been called – within hours of the death of over 40 demonstrators at the hands of both police and military, the latter also being the overseers (with unequivocal ...

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83 days ago by lenin

Speaking of bungled acts of repression, the Egyptian military's assault on protesters after last Friday's mass protest has revived the country's revolutionary movement and (so I hear) put a general strike on the agenda. Tahrir Square has been retaken. This image (left) shows what the square looked l ...

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83 days ago by lenin

Speaking of bungled acts of repression, the Egyptian military's assault on protesters after last Friday's mass protest has revived the country's revolutionary movement and (so I hear) put a general strike on the agenda. Tahrir Square has been retaken. This image (left) shows what the square looked l ...

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86 days ago by Youssef Rakha

Not quite a day later, a secular Muslim employee at one of Egypt’s largest media institutions begins to unpack the events of 9 October at his office, not far from the site of blood in downtown Cairo -I- Yesterday evening, while I sat at this desk dreaming up cultural content for the pages I am in ch ...

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