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A tourist buys a poster of Egypt’s army chief, Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is also pictured on a shirt, at a vendor in Tahrir square in Cairo February 22, 2014. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)
by Majdi Hamdan | Mar 23, 2014 | Debate
The cultural factors that govern a society’s political and social spheres play significant roles in determining its fate, which is why Egyptians called for an end to reactionary attitudes in the regime following January 25, 2011. For, as much as we seek change, we...
by Majdi Hamdan | Nov 12, 2013 | Debate
If we examine the expression “civil state,” we find that it has a common meaning shared by different cultures and philosophies. In a civil state, the political authority is entrusted to the people, and so there must be a representative of the people within the...