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Individualism and violence| When society disappears

As inequality deepens, isolation grows. Has individualism fractured solidarity, turning communities into spectators and society into strangers?

Mohamed El-Agati_ 3-6-2025

Individualism and violence| When society disappears

Mama Nawal and the bloody business of education

Billions amassed by education mogul, El Degwi, ignite a debate: is education a right or a business? The saga highlights the stark contrast between public need and private profit.

Nawwara Negm_ 11-6-2025

Mama Nawal and the bloody business of education

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El-Sisi, Alaa, and Laila: The media and the final act

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As Laila Soueif nears death on hunger strike, Egypt’s press stays silent. Will they cover her fate—or a pardon for her son, Alaa Abdel Fattah?

Basel Ramsis_ 4-6-2025

El-Sisi, Alaa, and Laila: The media and the final act

Al-Sharaa’s calculus: Normalization at what cost?

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Will Ahmed al-Sharaa agree to give up 15% of Syria’s territory to satisfy Donald Trump, who is eager to be photographed at a peace treaty signing between Tel Aviv and Damascus?

Mohamed Saad Abdel Hafeez_ 24-5-2025

Al-Sharaa’s calculus: Normalization at what cost?

A president alone

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Hamstrung by reliance on US and Gulf handouts, El-Sisi's intervention on Palestine at the Baghdad summit will remain hollow without giving a voice to the Egyptian people

Basel Ramsis_ 23-5-2025

A president alone

The Damanhour wake-up call Egypt can’t ignore

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Citizens, educators, lawyers and the state alike must draw lessons from this case of child sexual assault. Failure to heed them makes further sectarian eruptions likely.

Ishak Ibrahim_ 21-5-2025

The Damanhour wake-up call Egypt can’t ignore

Walls Between Us| The mind and conscience of the enemy

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Is "No Other Land" director on the same path shaped by Pappé, Shohat and Sivan—a break with Zionism toward a shared struggle where not all Israelis are enemies. Some are partners.

Basel Ramsis_ 16-5-2025

Walls Between Us| The mind and conscience of the enemy

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.

Mohamed Bassal_ 15-5-2025

Who protects the poor in their fight for Palestine?

Walls Between Us| Fame or victory for Palestinians

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Side by side on the Oscars stage, a Palestinian and an Israeli achieved a historic win for the first time. Maybe fame isn’t the price of defeat. Maybe it’s how walls begin to fall.

Basel Ramsis_ 13-5-2025

Walls Between Us| Fame or victory for Palestinians

Against women’s work: Social media panders to fragile masculinity

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Social media fuels a war on working women, masking fragile masculinity as morality while blaming women for economic collapse instead of confronting real power structures.

Ahmed Sayed Fathy_ 6-5-2025

Against women’s work: Social media panders to fragile masculinity

Editorial| Al Manassa in English: Claiming the Right to Be Heard

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We do not promise you neutrality. We are not above the fray. We are in it, sleeves rolled, searching for clarity in the rubble of euphemism & spectacle. What we offer is integrity.

Al Manassa_ 3-5-2025

Editorial| Al Manassa in English: Claiming the Right to Be Heard

When the sea becomes a gated society

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We gave up the city's spirit for a dreamlike beach, an elite space where the sea has become a class barrier that welcomes only the privileged few.

Alaa Khaled_ 3-5-2025

When the sea becomes a gated society

Reining in the UAE: A key to ending Sudan’s war

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As Sudan’s war rages on, one foreign power fuels the fire. From gold smuggling to arms deals, the UAE’s role isn’t just strategic—it’s a central obstacle to peace.

Husam Osman Mahjoub_ 2-5-2025

Reining in the UAE: A key to ending Sudan’s war

When thought is no longer taught

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Once a space to explore meaning, ethics, and they way of life, philosophy is now gone from Egypt’s schools. What are we losing when we stop asking the questions that shape us?

Chadi Gamal_ 2-5-2025

When thought is no longer taught

One breath of home in Gaza City; then back to exile

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Climbing over the ruins of my home, I sought any trace of life. Amid the wreckage of 40 years, I found it—green seedlings breathing where everything else had died.

Salem Elrayyes_ 27-4-2025

One breath of home in Gaza City; then back to exile