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Three of the nation’s top columnists on how their pens and 400 words help them keep everyone from the government to the opposition accountable to the man on the street.
NOTHING BEATS THE rustle of a newspaper in the morning. Whether you like yours with coffee or with OJ, reading the papers remains a preferred way to begin the day for most upper- and middle-class Egyptians. And it’s certainly not for the news — the headlines we read every day are sadly predictable, and Al Jazeera, Al-Arabiyya and other news channels do it better. Within seconds, a breaking story is carried around the globe many times over.
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Manal el-Jesri
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TheTaliban’sBack | Hundreds lost their homes when a shantytown in Sayeda Zeinab burned to the ground in late March. Nearly a month later, the state has relocated many residents to new homes, but dozens have fallen through the cracks. Complicating their plight are outsiders running confidence schemes or moving in to pass as residents in bids to win free apartments of their own.
DO YOU SEE ME?” demands 5-year-old Abd El-Rahman, looking up with sad, innocent eyes ringed with dirt. He points at his torn, filthy clothes as he sta
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Nadine El Sayed
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Read more | With violence escalating in Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, ordinary Afghanis frustrated by daily casualties and indignities are now helping the Islamists.
PEOPLE WHO VALUE their lives try to avoid going out after dark in Kandahar. This place is a death trap at the best of times, and the odds on survival
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Chris Sands in Kandahar
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 | Counting Egyptians
New census numbers give a snapshot of today’s Egypt. Among the revelations: Adults are an endangered species, with nearly one third of all Egyptians under the age of 15.
By Nadine El Sayed
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 | Ladies of the Law
The appointment of 31 female judges has been hailed by many as a much-needed step forward for Egypt’s legal system. But to some critics, it’s an affront to Islam.
By Yasmeen El Mallah
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 | Audiences Possessed
First it was satellite sheikhs; now it’s satellite healers. With their claims of curing by reading verses from the Qur’an, it appears they’ve managed to strike a chord with desperate audiences.
By Manal el-Jesri
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