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Who can lead Sudan out of its crisis?

  • The coexistence of the SAF and RSF within Sudan’s political landscape seems increasingly untenable. As the Sudanese people endure relentless bombing, destruction and displacement, the prospect of a peace agreement or ceasefire appears increasingly remote. Sudan, a nation with a complex hist...
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Rule of law crucial to honoring Egyptians’ equal rights

  • Egypt has lately seen the appointment of a large number of Coptic officials, the most recent being the naming of Manal Mikhail as governor of Damietta province and Kamal Sharobeem as governor of Dakahlia. These appointments were made hours after a meeting between President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ...
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Egypt needs a full debate on proposed constitutional changes

  • Let us first agree that state constitutions are not holy texts; they change with the times and according to the requirements of political, social and — perhaps — economic conditions. Therefore, the proposal submitted by the Support Egypt coalition, the majority parliamentary bloc, to amend a...
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Solutions to Ethiopian dam crisis difficult but possible

  • Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi shakes hands with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, June 10, 2018. (Reuters) Negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) are deadlocked, but they will be “resumed,” a...
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Intellectual approach needed to fight back against anti-Copt rhetoric

  •   The only differences between the Nov. 2 gun attack on buses carrying Coptic Christians on their way back from a visit to St. Samuel’s Monastery in Upper Egypt and a similar attack that happened in May 2017 are the names of the martyrs and the numbers killed.   In the re...
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Why attacks on Al-Azhar and its grand imam are misguided

  • In the blink of an eye, a scientific and intellectual discussion between the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb and President of Cairo University Mohammed Othman Elkhosht at the “Renewing the Religious Discourse” conference turned into some sort of street fight in Egyptian society. Se...
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Moving militants from one place to another is no solution

  • For the past four decades, the phenomenon of militant extremists returning from wars and terrorist campaigns in Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq and Yemen has posed a serious threat to their societies because a significant number of them bring their terrorism home with them....
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Sinai mosque attack — it was a massacre in every sense of the word

  • In response to Friday’s senseless slaughter of at least 235 Egyptians at the hands of terrorists, the Eiffel Tower has extinguished its lights. US President Donald Trump denounced the terrorist actions and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a statement of condemnation. As the world...
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Grand Egyptian Museum deserves better than a soft opening

  • The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry’s announcement that it plans to partially open the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) late this year has created a big controversy. While opponents suggest the partial opening is wrong and will diminish the value of the museum, Antiquities Minister Khaled Al-Anany sta...
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Why Egyptians did not turn their anger into action

  • Newton’s third law of motion states: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It seems like this law applies only to traditional physics and does not include the motion of history and societies, especially in Egypt. Newton’s law has not yet applied to the interactive mechanis...
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