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The Egyptian Election Result Presents a Dilemma for the US and Israel
It doesn’t take an unusually perceptive observer to guess the US subsidy to the Egyptian Army of US $1.3 billion each year for the last few years was not given without reason or condition. Up until the demise of the Mubarak government … Continue reading
Is the Archbishop of Canterbury right on Egypt?
The Archbishop of Canterbury has made a recent public statement, followed by a statement in the House of Lords in which he was at pains to point out that the situation of violence against the Coptic Church is no simple … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, Coptic Christians, Current protests, Egypt, Salafists, Shia, Sunni, the Archbishop of Canterbury
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The Arab Spring – Part 2
The signs for fresh green growth as a consequence of the much vaunted Arab Spring are slow in arriving. In Egypt, the economy already battered by the revolution may have lost 1.7 billion $US according to Egypt’s Central Agency for … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, economy, Egypt, Food shortage, foreign reserves, Jordan, Libya, Maplecroft, Syria, the water stress index, unemployment, volatility in food prices, Yemen
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The Dissent Multipliers
CURRENT DISSENT MULTIPLIERS The optimistically named “Arab Spring” whereby a number of the Arab countries are allegedly reclaiming their democratic and religious freedoms, removing corrupt dictatorship and setting up much more equitable distribution of resources and opportunities and shrugging off … Continue reading
COPTS NOW UNDER ATTACK IN EGYPT
The removal of Mubarak may well have been inevitable, but as was predicted in my earlier post on the likely consequences, this has been very bad for the Coptic Christians of Egypt. This last week the Church of St Mina … Continue reading
THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ENIGMA
One of the greatest mysteries for Western observers is to make sense of the Muslim Brotherhood and its part in the present and likely outcome of the current situation in Egypt.The Society of the Muslim Brothers (often known simply as الإخوان … Continue reading
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Tagged Allah, Islam, Jihad, Muslim, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Mashhur, Osama bin Laden, United States
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