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Egypt Independent speaks to Jama’a al-Islamiya about its role in today’s society

24 Apr 2013
The most noticeable thing about Assiut city’s Abu Bakr al-Sideeq Mosque isn’t the building itself, which stands almost camouflaged among several identically painted apartment blocks, but the signs surrounding it. Along its iron...
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On the legacy of the Iraq War: Q&A with Rashid Khalidi

20 Mar 2013
In commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Egypt Independent spoke to American historian Rashid Khalidi on the effects of the war on Iraqi and regional politics, American foreign policy and the prospects of...
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The head of the Farmers Syndicate talks about their continuing battle

22 Jan 2013
As farmers took to the streets as part of the mobilization against the draft constitution, Mohamed Abdel Qader, chief of the Farmers Syndicate established in April 2011, announced that he was joining the oppositional National Salvation...
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A conversation with Salafi political leader Emad Abdel Ghafour

10 Jan 2013
  Deputy founder of the nascent Salafi Watan Party and presidential assistant Emad Abdel Ghafour announced the establishment of the party on 1 December after resigning from the presidency of the Nour Party, the political arm of the...
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Rights group: If complaints not addressed, referendum voting should be repeated

17 Dec 2012
Local rights groups may appeal to the international community to apply pressure on the Morsy administration to repeat the first round of voting in the constitutional referendum, said Hafez Abu Seada on Monday. Abu Seada, who is the head of...
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Morsy adviser claims liberals want Mubarak-style democracy

06 Dec 2012
Basem al-Zarqa, a prominent Salafi preacher and one of President Mohamed Morsy’s circle of advisers, was asking me to pray in preparation for judgment day. “You are Christian and I am Muslim, we believe in a day of judgment,...
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Govt begins to implement employment quota for people with disabilities

A group of disabled protest in front of Shoura Council, Cairo, February 23, 2010, calling for constitutional rights such as right to decent housing. The protesters called for flexible laws in order to create privately owned businesses.
06 Nov 2012
A long-standing law which seeks to ensure employment for Egypt’s disabled people may finally be implemented. In 1975, a law was passed requiring public and private employers with more than 50 employees to reserve five percent of jobs...
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Behind the Egypt-Israel October war: Q&A with Craig Daigle - Part 4

Israeli soldiers in the October 1973 War
14 Oct 2012
    Egypt Independent interviews historian Craig Daigle about his seminal work “The Limits of Detente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973” unpacking the myths surrounding the...
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Behind the Egypt-Israel October war: Q&A with Craig Daigle - Part 3

Israeli soldiers in the October 1973 War
13 Oct 2012
  This is part 3 of Egypt Independent's interview with historian Craig Daigle, whose book, "The Limits of Detente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973" presents seminal knowledge...
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Behind the Egypt-Israel October war: Q&A with Craig Daigle - Part 2

Israeli soldiers in the October 1973 War
12 Oct 2012
Egypt Independent interviews historian Craig Daigle, specialist on US-Middle East relations during the Cold War, whose book "The Limits of Detente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973"...
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