No Army Interference...Yet
Between calls for the return of the army to political life and the simultaneous warnings and fears of government militarization and renewed military c...
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Egypt’s Brotherhood Stripped of Its Religious Shell
The most important value of any religious group is the value of religion, for it gives the group the cover of sacredness, and its members the identity of being religious, or as Egy...
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The Battle for Control of Al-Azhar
In the wake of the crisis between radical Islamists and Copts during the Coptic Easter, another major religious crisis has been unfolding in Egypt. Al-Azhar, one of the world’s m...
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