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Death makes angels of us all: Fragments
Jim Morrison died on 3 July, as young as most of the casualties of the Egyptian revolution of 2011-13 (let’s assume it’s been one string of events for simplicity’s sake). Play a few Doors songs to...
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New York Times/Herald Tribune Essay on the Coupvolution
Egypt Shows How Political Islam Is at Odds With Democracy By YOUSSEF RAKHA Published: July 15, 2013 CAIRO — Egypt’s top military commander, Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, went on the air Sunday to defend...
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The Terrors of Democracy
For the Western media and Western policy makers, it seems the story of what’s been happening in Egypt is a simple one. Having deposed and taken into custody a democratically elected president on July...
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Tractatus Politico-Religiosus
The Second Tractatus: From 25 January to 30 June in four sentences: on Egypt’s two revolutions . 1 Newton’s third law of motion: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body...
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Thus Spoke Che Nawwarah:
Interview with a Revolutionary DOWNLOAD AS EPUB . . I became obsessed with sodomizing Sheikh Arif round about the time his posters started crawling all over the streets. Today is July 20, 2012, right?...
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To Wake the People: Egypt’s Interminable Haul to Democracy
“The People are asleep my darling” So she’d tell him; He, too, Was careful not to wake the People, To endure its dreams Like a kid’s kicks, To ape its slack tongue like a fool, To crawl before it on...
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Egyptian History X
Mirror Al-Ahram Weekly: Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Youssef Rakha and Egypt’s new culture of violence As of 28 January, 2011, the protests in and around Tahrir Square were never quite as peaceful as people...
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❁ Here Be A Cyber Topkapı ❁
○ Cairo, the City of Kismet ○ Adaweyah, the Shaabi Music Legend ○ Requiem for a Suicide Bombmer ○ The Strange Case of the Novelist from Egypt ○ Revolution: Nude, Martyr, Faith ○ Youssef in the Quran ○...
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One Flew Over the Mulla’s Ballot
@Sultans_Seal wallows in his lack of democratic mettle Time and again, since 30 June last year, I’ve come up against the commitment to democracy that I’m supposed to have betrayed by appearing to...
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Who #Sisi Is In Under 200 Words
Sisi Rayyisi Sisi Rayyisi Sisi Rayyisi Sisi Rayyisi Sisi Rayyisi Sisi and his supporters are the reason 30 June-3 July took the popular revolt against political Islam in an illiberal direction (though...
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My Unwritten Spoof
I had planned to write a spoof. I was to be a committed Islamist reviewing the first two years after 30 June. I would extoll the virtues of Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood. I would glorify their...
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Bare-bones Jihad: Three Remarks on Islamic Terrorism
1-There are at least two good reasons to disqualify jihad – including “the Islamic resistance” – from being a freedom fight (against colonialism/Zionism): (a) in recent history jihad has been an...
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Protestophilia
You call me an Islamophobe, but you’re Islamophiles! It’s been an aeon since Egyptian cyber-activists decided to try grafting the virtual world onto reality. The result was breathtaking at first,...
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Nukhba? Who the fuck is Nukhba?
Egyptian intellectuals and the revolution Egypt has had Islamists and “revolutionaries”. So who are the nukhba or elite routinely denigrated as a “minority” that “looks down on the People”? Educated...
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Open Letter to Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei
First posted on 19 June 2012 Dear Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei: Happy 70th and thank you! Truly, thank you: for refusing to be part of this travesty of presidential elections, for rejecting any form of...
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In the Name of the Father
My father did not live to see 9/11. I don’t know what he would have thought of the so called war on terror, let alone the equally so called Arab Spring. Though not particularly old, he was frail and...
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In the Name of the Father
My father did not live to see 9/11. I don’t know what he would have thought of the so called war on terror, let alone the equally so called Arab Spring. Though not particularly old, he was frail and...
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Protestophilia
You call me an Islamophobe, but you’re Islamophiles! It’s been an aeon since Egyptian cyber-activists decided to try grafting the virtual world onto reality. The result was breathtaking at first,...
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Nukhba? Who the fuck is Nukhba?
Egyptian intellectuals and the revolution Egypt has had Islamists and “revolutionaries”. So who are the nukhba or elite routinely denigrated as a “minority” that “looks down on the People”? Educated...
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Tractatus Politico-Religiosus
The Second Tractatus: From 25 January to 30 June in four sentences: on Egypt’s two revolutions . 1 Newton’s third law of motion: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body...
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