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, by KAPIEC Katarzyna, KOTARBA-MORLEY Anna M.
Archaeologists in Egypt have made an exciting discovery: the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II, a ruler who has long been overshadowed by his famous wife and half-sister, Queen Hatshepsut.
The remarkable find is located in the Western Valley (a burial ground for queens rather than kings), near the (…)
, by NAGUIB Sameh, RUDER Eric
January 25 marks the five-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian Revolution, which began with protests on a national holiday known as Police Day. Eighteen days later, the U.S.-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled after nearly 30 years in power.
Today, however, a new military regime (…)
, by SEDRA Paul
What are the particular circumstances in modern Egyptian history that have imparted such weight to sectarian appeals and permitted the emergence of two solitudes?
In a sense, the attacks on Coptic Christian churches and institutions that have plagued Egypt in recent days are the denouement of (…)
, by SHOKR Ahmad
Interpreting a revolutionary event is a contentious undertaking. Why it began, how it unfolded, to whom its legacy belongs — these are questions of enduring debate. The mass protests in Egypt that deposed Husni Mubarak and continued for months in 2011-2012 still generate divergent narratives and (…)
, by Committee for Stop Firing of Nezu, Kawarai and Other Teachers, ESKANDAR Wael
The politics of the past two years have generated widespread interest in the historical relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Egypt’s wielders of power, especially at a time when observers are eager to understand the prospects for accommodation (or adversity) between the MB and (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Egypt: The Moment of Change. Edited by Rabab El-Mahdi and Philip Marfleet Zed Press, 2009, U.S. distributor Macmillan, 224 pages, $28.95 paperback.
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WHY HAS THE Arab world suddenly erupted in revolution from Tunisia to Egypt, from Bahrain to Yemen? (…)
, by El SHAKRY Omnia
A primer in Egyptian history
When the Egyptian Uprising of 2011 began, we heard media pundits, friends, and colleagues milling about in search of apt metaphors to describe the mass protests and revolution in Egypt. In so far as “history” was mobilized in these discussions, it was generally as (…)
, by ALEXANDER Anne
July 26, 1956. A crowd, tens of thousands strong, gathered in Manshiyya Square in Alexandria, to hear a speech by Egypt’s president, Gamal Abd-al-Nasser. The atmosphere was tense—only days before Nasser had received a humiliating rebuff from the US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, to his (…)
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