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It's widely believed that regimes that lack popular legitimacy often resort to torture. Desperate to retain control over their people,…

Experiencing authoritarianism does not automatically make one a democrat. The Muslim Brotherhood has faced the worst kind of political repression…

Many argue that Egyptian Islamism has lagged behind its counterparts in Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen and other relatively “peripheral” Arab…

Egypt's politics have been transformed since Hosni Mubarak was toppled on 11 February but the prospect of elections may put…

A Salafi fear industry has developed in the Egyptian media, especially after the group’s sudden emergence in the aftermath of…

A few years ago, I visited the Stasi Museum in Berlin. I had learned about the East German security apparatus…

The army told one of Egypt’s main activist groups that it intends to hold parliamentary elections in June.During a marathon…

The 25 January Egyptian uprising was a bombshell that undid several cliches about Middle East politics. On top of the…

After almost a week of celebratory headlines--some more sincere than others--Thursday’s papers turn their attention to more pressing matters, mainly…

Military coups have never been a source of comfort for democratic forces. This has been especially true in Egypt, where…