This (Arabic) study is one of the most accurate and detailed reports, I’ve come across, on the evolution of the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces: UPDATE: I was honored to speak with the author of the study, in a Zoom meeting.
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January 1977: Egypt’s Bread Uprising
This is the MA dissertation I wrote in 2001, on the 1977 Egyptian intifada.
Read on »Egypt’s hidden history of dissent
The 25 January 2011 revolution is the product of a long process of dissent accumulation over decades in Egypt led by workers and students.
Read on »Something in the air
Since I returned to Cairo two days ago, the conversations I’m having with or hearing from random strangers are amazing. I had to go yesterday to do some paper work at the Nasr City registrar, and as usual the procedures included photocopying my ID and every single document. I went into one of the small
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