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|  The Writing’s on the Wall
The disappearance of political signs from public squares and private balconies last month had nothing to do with censorship and everything to do with the new election campaign legislation. A look at who is buying signs, and why, in the run-up to the fall presidential and parliamentary contests.
visitors to Tahrir Square in May and early June could not have missed the giant three-meter-tall cutouts of President Hosni Mubarak strategically positioned throughout the area. The signs, clearly displaying the name of their sponsor, Shura Council Member Nabil Louca Bebawey, showed the president waving with one hand high in the air and featured built-in colored light bulbs around his head.
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Ahmed Namatalla
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The Comedians |
Figureheads | Whether captured by camera, on stage, by brushstroke or pen, it’s art ... and you’d better believe it’s funny.
Sitting at a qahwa, Hassawi remained aloof, turning a deaf ear to the locals’ conversations, which dwelled on the political situation, until a st
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Noha El-Hennawy
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Read more | Always Subject to the laws of ‘unnatural’ selection of the state, could the music which never appears in the mainstream media make a comeback amid all the promises of reform?
A week before the May 25th constitutional referendum on whether or not to allow direct presidential elections (the one that would, we were assured, ca
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Rania Al Malky
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 | Kingdom Come
Khaled El-Nabawy speaks out on his role in Ridley Scott’s controversial blockbuster Kingdom of Heaven-and challenges Arab critics of the Crusades-era film to shoot their own version.
By Ahmed Namatalla
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 | 5 minute GUIDE An Arab Spring
In memory of the late journalist Samir Kassir, the following article is being published in English after running for the first time in French as part of the previous issue of our sister magazine La Revue d’ Egypte.
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 | Urban Legends
Controversy over the future of the Café Riche building downtown puts the National Organization for Urban Harmony’s heritage preservation law back in the spotlight.
By Rania Al Malky
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