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Egypt’s new constitution keeps right for military trial of civilians
Egyptian newspaper El-Shorouk has published what looks very close to being the final draft of Egypt’s coup government constitution. To no one’s particular surprise, it retains the right for military...
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Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is TIME readers’ person of the year
General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has been voted Person of the Year by the readers of TIME magazine I suppose there are two ways to take the fact that Egypt’s coup leader General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has been...
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Mistreated African migrants persecuted as they return home from Israel
Refugees protest against Israel’s crackdown on asylum seekers. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA Here’s a story I worked on with Maeve McClenaghan. Israel has for a number of years been cracking down on...
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Egypt to Britain: May makes us look liberal
It’s not often the threads of my enquiries, disparate as they are between the Middle East, drones and people being deprived of their citizenship, come together in one easily digestible post. But then...
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‘My citizenship was everything to me. Now I am nobody’
I’ve spent quite a lot of time in recent months working on a story, which was finally published in today’s Independent. There is a fuller version on OpenDemocracy. The UK is stripping British terror...
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The state of counter terrorism
#121622018 / gettyimages.com #121622018 / gettyimages.com I’ve been investigating the UK’s use of counter-terrorism legislation – particularly in the form of executive power – for a number of months...
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Nick Griffin is in Beirut and I’m as scared as you are
Update: The toad is in the hole. Repeat: The toad is in the hole. Please don’t take that coded communique as anything other than a coincidental metaphor for Nick Griffin’s presence in Damascus....
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Dozens killed as Lebanese army clashes with followers of Sheikh Ahmed...
#171400958 / gettyimages.com LATEST (0848 GMT 25 June): As I’ve usually found to be helpful when dealing with Assir, it seems we shouldn’t take more or less anything he says too seriously. After...
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The day the revolution died
#173181329 / gettyimages.com See, I’d always assumed it was because of people not liking Mohammad Morsi personally, or sour grapes, or some sort of abstract ideal of a perfect, secular democracy that...
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Let’s all blame Hezbollah
Even from an administration with a proud recent history of brinkmanship, last week’s resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati was a coup de grace of “will he, wont he?” The beleagured...
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