Syria’s Sunni v Shi’a myth
Insisting falsely that the Syrian conflict is sectarian will tear the country apart once Assad is gone and place the Alawite minority in grave danger. Tuesday 2 July 2013 A recent poll on Al Jazeera...
View ArticleEgypt’s coup de quoi!?
By Khaled Diab The millions on the streets, not dressed in khaki, democratically ejected Mohamed Morsi. Now it’s time to remove the military from Egypt’s politics. Wednesday 10 July 2013 As an...
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Egypt’s next president is a… Jew?!
By Khaled Diab What do conspiracy theories that the mother of Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is a Jew say about the Muslim Brotherhood sympathisers propagating them? A new video claims that Abdel-Fattah...
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Egypt’s accidental democracy?
By Khaled Diab Bad as things are now, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, despite his dictatorial tendencies, may unwittingly preside over Egypt’s transition to democracy. In the past, Egypt’s dictators had...
View ArticleFreedom of repression in Egypt
By Khaled Diab The Republic of Tahrir revolutionaries dreamt of an Egypt of freedom, but the only thing that seems free these days is the value of human dignity. Saturday 10 January 2015 In December...
View ArticleEgypt’s borderline paranoia
By Khaled Diab My interrogation at the Egyptian border about my journalism and opinions is not about state security, but the insecurity of a paranoid state, Wednesday 18 November 2015 Following the...
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Giulio Regeni is the tip of Egypt’s police brutality iceberg
By Khaled Diab Many Egyptians find the allegation that the Italian student was killed by Egypt’s notorious security apparatus chillingly plausible. Italy must shed its former enthusiasm for the Sisi...
View ArticleRacists exploit BDS and Israel to advance their agendas of hatred
By Khaled Diab As recent motions in the German Bundestag and US Congress reveal, both the BDS and pro-Israel movements are exploited by racists as fig leafs to further their agendas. These racists must...
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