Mohamed Bassal

Egyptian Journalist and Legal Researcher
Managing Editor of Al Shorouk newspaper, and manages Manshurat.org website for legal archives.
Winner of Heikal Award and Press Syndicate's Excellence Award.

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Gaza and the US-Israeli international fascism charter

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Washington’s intervention at The Hague reframes genocide itself, revealing a wider struggle over law, accountability and global order.

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Gaza and the US-Israeli international fascism charter

After Khamenei, who stands in Israel's crosshairs?

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Behind the strike on Khamenei lies a doctrine decades in the making—one that seeks to force Iran to its knees and redraw the region’s balance of power.

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After Khamenei, who stands in Israel's crosshairs?

Mubarak's great escape

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The failure of "January justice" was the inevitable outcome of violent swings between constitutional and revolutionary legitimacy, leaving the window for real reckoning to close.

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Mubarak's great escape

January 25 and the long shadow of unanswered justice

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The justice track of January quietly mutated into a mechanism for rehabilitating Mubarak-era figures and easing them back into public life.

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January 25 and the long shadow of unanswered justice

Trump's dam gambit: The GERD & the "CC" diplomacy

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Trump’s proposal wanes in credibility, yet his push to involve new parties remains a risky move that warrants caution in light of his high-stakes meeting with El-Sisi in Davos.

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Trump's dam gambit: The GERD & the "CC" diplomacy

The future of parliament on a “Snakes and Ladders” board

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As debate swirls after turbulent elections, efforts emerge to move past the crisis without change, sidestepping deeper questions of representation and parliamentary purpose.

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The future of parliament on a “Snakes and Ladders” board

The season of tampering with the constitution

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Amid electoral turmoil, actors seize the moment to float trial balloons for constitutional change, masking deeper plans under the guise of reform.

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The season of tampering with the constitution

It's time to free the judiciary from the shackles of election supervision

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Judicial supervision was sold as the safeguard of Egypt’s elections. Today, it stands exposed as a scapegoat for deeper structural flaws, and a system long engineered for control.

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It's time to free the judiciary from the shackles of election supervision

The pink card is gone, but so are the voters

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Reform promised inclusion. Instead, Egypt’s elections became quieter, narrower, and emptier—proof that monopoly needs no “pink card” to endure.

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The pink card is gone, but so are the voters

Barrack forecasts a new Middle East: No more 'lines in the sand'

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Barrack invokes Sykes-Picot not to condemn colonialism, but to suggest maps can be redrawn again to by American power. This time explicitly with 'no guarantees.'

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Barrack forecasts a new Middle East: No more 'lines in the sand'

The summit that whispered while Gaza burns

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As Netanyahu escalates and Washington shields him, the Doha Summit offers rhetoric but stalls on action. Can the Arab world afford another missed moment?

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The summit that whispered while Gaza burns

Who will upstage Netanyahu at the New York showdown?

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As Netanyahu plans to use the UN stage to pronounce the two-state solution dead, over 140 countries prepare for a historic diplomatic standoff. But where is the Arab world?

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Who will upstage Netanyahu at the New York showdown?

Lebensraum reimagined: The myth of ‘Greater Israel’

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Netanyahu's symbolic nod to “Greater Israel” reveals a deeper strategy: expanding Israeli control and influence across the region, from Gaza to the wider Middle East.

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Lebensraum reimagined: The myth of ‘Greater Israel’

Trump, the Nile, and the Zionist dream

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As Trump returns to the Nile dam file, echoes of a Zionist water dream and regional pressure resurface, leaving Egypt to choose between reaction and initiative.

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Trump, the Nile, and the Zionist dream

Lapid's playbook: Arab allies for Israel's ‘dirty work’

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Lapid's new plan offers Arabs incentives to suppress Palestinian resistance—outsourcing Israel’s “dirty work” while reshaping the region under Zionist terms.

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Lapid's playbook: Arab allies for Israel's ‘dirty work’

Electoral law and the danger of normalizing silence

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With elections approaching, Egypt retains a closed-list system that critics say stifles pluralism. Why was there no real push for reform from political actors or parties?

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Electoral law and the danger of normalizing silence

Who protects the poor in their fight for Palestine?

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Nicaragua’s recent legal actions reveal the complexities of international support for Palestine and highlight who truly stands with the powerless in Palestine’s fight.

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Who protects the poor in their fight for Palestine?

Escaping the minefield of Egypt's old rent law

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Some see the ruling as long-awaited relief, others as a looming crisis. The state sees a dilemma, observers warn of fallout—but it may be a chance Egypt can’t afford to miss.

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Escaping the minefield of Egypt's old rent law