Khaled Dawoud, Mona Baker

Is Egypt on the Verge of Another Uprising?

January 21, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Egypt

THANASSIS CAMBANIS, JAN 16 2015 CAIRO—Four years after the revolution he helped lead, Basem Kamel has noticeably scaled back his ambitions. The regime he and his friends thought they overthrew after storming Tahrir Square has returned. In the face of relentless pressure and violence from the authorities, most of the revolutionary movements have been sidelined or snuffed out. Egypt’s new

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Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Ahmed Imam, April 6 movement, Basem Kamel, Egyptian Revolution, Hosni Mubarak, Khaled Dawoud, Mohamed Nabil, Thanassis Cambanis

Egypt's Rabaa massacre: one year on

August 17, 2014 Mona Baker Egypt, Human Rights, Police Brutality

The killing of 817 protesters last August was this week judged a crime against humanity equal to, or worse, than Tiananmen Square. But feelings on the ground are mixed Patrick Kingsley The Guardian, Saturday 16 August 2014 “To this day, I can’t believe it happened. I reached a point where I couldn’t talk to anyone. I couldn’t talk to

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