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How to bury a communist twice

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El-Hilali built a class-based liberties movement rooted in labor struggles, fiercely opposing the foreign funding that flooded civil society and human rights NGOs in the 1990s.

Basel Ramsis_ 22-7-2026

How to bury a communist twice

What remains after the state’s capture of the Future of Egypt?

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Egypt’s ministries already do most of what the Future of Egypt Authority claims to do. A new bill hands it more power anyway, with little to show for past results.

Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid_ 16-7-2026

What remains after the state’s capture of the Future of Egypt?

Omnia Swedan and the sanctity of the forbidden

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If Nessma Al-Khatib and Omnia Swedan were not women, and if their comments had come from men, would the reaction have been different in either case? There is no answer.

Basel Ramsis_ 29-6-2026

Omnia Swedan and the sanctity of the forbidden

The curse of the Arab Spring haunting us in Egypt and Tunisia

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Beyond the shared nostalgia for pre-revolutionary stability, Egypt and Tunisia find themselves mirroring each other in an unprecedented, systematic closure of the public sphere.

Basel Ramsis_ 17-6-2026

The curse of the Arab Spring haunting us in Egypt and Tunisia

Encoding injustice: Egypt’s structural engineering of labor precarity

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Through arbitrary physical screenings, sudden drug-test sackings, and strict female travel curbs, the Egyptian state is actively engineering systemic workplace discrimination.

Ishak Ibrahim_ 16-6-2026

Encoding injustice: Egypt’s structural engineering of labor precarity

When will the President call Israel by its name?

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The quiet deployment of Egyptian fighter jets to the UAE exposes a dangerous realignment with Abu Dhabi’s aggressive, pro-Israel architecture for the region.

Basel Ramsis_ 3-6-2026

When will the President call Israel by its name?

Jackals and Jackasses: A Gulf Story

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It is not condescension; it is contempt. A searing critique of how Gulf “cultural specificity” is routinely weaponized to normalize racism, tribalism, and the kafala system.

Ahmed Naji_ 30-5-2026

Jackals and Jackasses: A Gulf Story

The politics of speaking about politics

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When the butcher, the fisherman, and the footballer all insist politics isn't their business, who does that serve?

Basel Ramsis_ 27-5-2026

The politics of speaking about politics

Egyptian women working abroad: When “out of sight” passes for policy

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The problem lies not so much in the profession itself as in the position of domestic and care workers, who are viewed as a stigmatized social group.

Omaima Emad_ 24-5-2026

Egyptian women working abroad: When “out of sight” passes for policy

The noise of silence on the Matrouh boat: Poverty that is harsher than the sea

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Years ago, the dream of emigrating was associated with a rosy future. A good job, clean streets, a stable life. Now, many of those who set out to sea don’t even have that dream.

Tamer Abu Arab_ 20-5-2026

The noise of silence on the Matrouh boat: Poverty that is harsher than the sea

Nuremberg on the cloud: Re-imagining crimes against humanity in the cyberspace

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Beyond boots on the ground: the legal community tackles the frightening reality that every atrocity outlawed at Nuremberg can now be executed with a single keystroke.

Nasser Amin_ 18-5-2026

Nuremberg on the cloud: Re-imagining crimes against humanity in the cyberspace

Workers of the world did not unite: How the far-right hijacked inequality

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Nearly two decades after the 2008 crash, awareness of inequality has finally returned, but it is the fascist right, not the socialist left, that has reaped the reward.

Amr Adly_ 17-5-2026

Workers of the world did not unite: How the far-right hijacked inequality

The neoliberal mirage: Deconstructing the myth of a labor-free economy

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While neoliberalism claims technology has replaced workers, the global supply chain tells a different story. Labor remains the essential condition for creating all value.

Amr Adly_ 7-5-2026

The neoliberal mirage: Deconstructing the myth of a labor-free economy

Cracks in the ‘Iron Wall’: Pushing the edges of Palestine solidarity

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Supporting armed struggle and rejecting the two-state myth: How the Global Solidarity movement is erasing old red lines to challenge the very existence of the occupying state.

Basel Ramsis_ 4-5-2026

Cracks in the ‘Iron Wall’: Pushing the edges of Palestine solidarity

Editorial| Ten years of survival

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As the world marks Press Freedom Day, Al Manassa celebrates ten years of survival and independent journalism, and calls for the release of our colleague, cartoonist Ashraf Omar

Al Manassa_ 4-5-2026

Editorial| Ten years of survival

The Gulf wants solidarity, but on whose terms?

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Gulf anger at Egypt says less about official coordination than about a deeper unease with Egyptian public sympathy for any force checking Israel.

Khaled Dawoud_ 8-4-2026

The Gulf wants solidarity, but on whose terms?

Qom, Al-Azhar and a fractured language of unity

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In the eyes of Qom, Al-Azhar’s latest stance disrupted more than rhetoric; it unsettled a carefully tended language of Islamic rapprochement.

Mohamed Saad Abdel Hafeez_ 7-4-2026

Qom, Al-Azhar and a fractured language of unity

Female MPs and the political pageantry of ridicule

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Gendered ridicule turns women politicians into bodies, jokes or scandals—anything but political actors with speech, agency and claims to power.

Hoda Fayek_ 2-4-2026

Female MPs and the political pageantry of ridicule

The Nightmare of Harassment in Schools| On those who grew up too soon

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Children’s testimonies are finally breaking the silence on sexual abuse in Egyptian schools, and forcing hard questions about protection, accountability and reform.

Tamer Abu Arab_ 31-3-2026

The Nightmare of Harassment in Schools| On those who grew up too soon

Iran’s next test: Life after the Supreme Leader

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Khomeini built a revolution on charisma. Khamenei turned it into a system of control. What comes next for Iran?

Mina Fouad Tawfik_ 25-3-2026

Iran’s next test: Life after the Supreme Leader

Questions of power and memory: The Saudi–Egyptian clash over Iran

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Egyptian intellectuals reject war on Iran, stressing resistance to Israel; Saudi voices reproach them with 1967 defeat revealing a clash of values.

Basel Ramsis_ 19-3-2026

Questions of power and memory: The Saudi–Egyptian clash over Iran

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.

Mohamed Bassal_ 18-3-2026

Gaza and the US-Israeli international fascism charter

Egypt’s fuel crisis and the cost of endless "exceptional circumstances"

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From pandemic excuses to regional wars, the state’s justifications for price hikes are wearing thin. Seven reasons why the latest fuel increase is pushing Egyptians to the brink.

Ammar Ali Hassan_ 16-3-2026

Egypt’s fuel crisis and the cost of endless "exceptional circumstances"

The illusion of security: Why the Gulf cannot lead the Arab world alone

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Five years after the “Gulf moment” was proclaimed, war with Iran and Israel’s expanding ambitions expose the limits of Gulf leadership and the fragility of US security guarantees

Mohamed Saad Abdel Hafeez_ 16-3-2026

The illusion of security: Why the Gulf cannot lead the Arab world alone