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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: A Day in the Life of an Egyptian Electoral District
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Commentary on Egyptian Politics and Culture by an Egyptian Citizen with a Room of Her Own. Wednesday, December 01, 2010. A Day in the Life of an Egyptian Electoral District. This year, Sabahy’s main contender is NDP member. Backed by the NDP’s Ahmad Ezz and dubbed a “distinctive deputy under the parliamentary rotunda” by. Assaulted a parliament photographer. During a plenary session when the latter photographed Abdel Ghaffar chastising a Wafd MP for printing in t...
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: The Striver
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Commentary on Egyptian Politics and Culture by an Egyptian Citizen with a Room of Her Own. Monday, May 21, 2012. Brand, and it resonates with those who want a peer and not a patrician as their national leader. Sabahy made his name contesting rigged elections under Mubarak, turning his seaside hometown of Balteem into a flashpoint. Presidential Campaigning, Egyptian-Style. On a recent Friday afternoon, Sabahy’s campaign cavalcade eases into Tamay al-Amdeed, ...
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: Fetishizing the State
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Commentary on Egyptian Politics and Culture by an Egyptian Citizen with a Room of Her Own. Thursday, August 08, 2013. An old and pernicious idea is back in circulation since the July 3 coup. It was a running theme in the military ruler’s speech. Or the state’s standing and prestige, a central plank of the Arab authoritarian order that’s making a big comeback. Sisi says he gave up on instructing Morsi and decided to. 8220;emphasize the idea of the state”. That the...
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: Public Service Announcement
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Commentary on Egyptian Politics and Culture by an Egyptian Citizen with a Room of Her Own. Sunday, July 28, 2013. On the same day that Egyptian police shot dead at least 74 Muslim Brother demonstrators. And wounded scores, the Interior Ministry. Today, at the police cadet graduation ceremony attended by Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim,. The important thing to note about police propaganda is not how obscenely it distorts reality.
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: Death Knell for an Old Political Style
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Commentary on Egyptian Politics and Culture by an Egyptian Citizen with a Room of Her Own. Saturday, December 08, 2012. Death Knell for an Old Political Style. In the most acute crisis of his presidency, Mohamed Morsi didn’t rise to the occasion, and couldn’t even deliver the bare minimum of an effective narrative. This isn’t because he’s a dictator or a stupid man or a stubborn man, but a captive of a defunct political style. When discontent with Morsi’s p...
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: On Morsi's Opponents
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Commentary on Egyptian Politics and Culture by an Egyptian Citizen with a Room of Her Own. Thursday, December 13, 2012. First it has to be said that the Egyptian opposition faced a very long, uphill battle after Mohamed Morsi’s election. Not only did a true opposition figure come tantalizingly close. To entering the run-off, only to be edged aside by the two oligarchies. Still, I’m stunned at Morsi’s opponents’ failure to act like a credible opp...Most significan...
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Things Are Totally Happening.: Stuff You May Have Missed in the Egypt Protests; In Other News, Egyptians Still Incredible.
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Things Are Totally Happening. Some girl's attempt at staying informed on the internet. January 31, 2011. Stuff You May Have Missed in the Egypt Protests; In Other News, Egyptians Still Incredible. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Arab version of the Berlin Wall is falling. And you, me, and everyone else with half an eye on the news, is watching. I've been watching the Al Jazeera liveblog. Refreshing every few nanoseconds. My love of AJE. I've also been following a fairly decent Guardian liveblog. Increasingly e...
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: A Military Constitution
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Commentary on Egyptian Politics and Culture by an Egyptian Citizen with a Room of Her Own. Friday, January 10, 2014. Now that the Egyptian military has ousted the first elected president, installed a government of civilian executors, massacred the former president’s supporters and sympathizers, and declared his organization a terrorist group, it is set to produce a document it calls a constitution that codifies military superiority over state and society. The onc...
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: Democracy v. Oligarchy, Round 2
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Commentary on Egyptian Politics and Culture by an Egyptian Citizen with a Room of Her Own. Sunday, June 24, 2012. Democracy v. Oligarchy, Round 2. Tahrir Square, June 8 2012. Man they can do business with. To add an even greater hurdle, from day one the SCAF knew that it faced the juggernaut of popular sovereignty, so it quickly did an end-run around it. By dissolving parliament and grabbing its power, stipulating that the president swear the oath before unel...
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: Military Tutelage, Egyptian-Style
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Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة. Commentary on Egyptian Politics and Culture by an Egyptian Citizen with a Room of Her Own. Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Military Tutelage, Egyptian-Style. If there were lingering doubts that the military pounced on the June 30 protests to re-establish its political supremacy, Gen. El-Sisi’s Sunday address. In tandem with the speech, the armed forces released a. Set to ominous music, scenes of collapsing buildings, wrecked trains, long petrol queues, and parched fields...
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