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.
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Radio interview: Egypt’s labor movement
This is a radio interview recorded on May Day. I hope you find it useful, it includes some background history on the Egyptian labor movement.
Read on »Egypt’s 1968: The revival of street politics
Above is Chapter IV of the MA Thesis I wrote 10 years ago, when studying at the American University in Cairo’s Political Science department. This chapter discusses the revival of the student movement following the 1967 defeat. Of course reading it today I wish if I would have edited some parts, changed the lingo here
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Haj Omar doesn’t know how old he is exactly, but he says he approaches 80. An Ababda tribe member, and a Marsa Alam native, he’s probably done it all. He worked in the gold mines as a child, spent years on boats fishing across the Red Sea, traveled around the desert with his cattle. You
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Another pic from the Family Album: My dad, standing first to the right, wrote on the back of the photo, “Fayoum” but no date is mentioned. I’d suggest it was taken sometime in 1966 or 1967 before the June War. One of the persons I recognize in that pic is his best friend, whom I
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Via Al-Ahram Weekly: 24 February 1968: Cairo University students take to the streets, protesting the light sentences given to the Air Force generals blamed by Nasser for the 1967 defeat, and calling for political reforms, freedom of expression, the liberation of the universities from the control of the security services. The students, in the pic,
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In most books you come across, it’s worth noting that the Arab ’68 is largely forgotten in the international leftist literature, except for references to the radicalization of Palestinian resistance with the formation of the PFLP, and the victory of the Fatah fighters in the Karamah battle. However, Egypt and the other Arab countries were
Read on »Suez and the high tide of Arab nationalism
Interesting article by Anne Alexander on the 1956 war, the rising nationalist movement and Arab Communism.
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