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عمو حسام
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In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.

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Book review coming up Thursday @haymarketbooks.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Why Egypt's parliamentary elections are a carefully choreographed sham
Why Egypt's parliamentary elections are a carefully choreographed sham
The real contest over who qualifies as a candidate, and whether parliament will help extend Sisi's rule beyond 2030, has already been decided behind the scenes
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November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Parliamentary Elections: The Ballot as a Test of Obedience
Egypt Security Sector Report
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November 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New podcast episode
Occupation by Another Name
Washington’s Gaza Blueprint
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November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
podcast episode dropping tomorrow
November 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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OMG how did I miss this. LAST DAY people!
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Their End Is Our Beginning

a conversation with brian bean about Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
brian bean, "Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition" (Haymarket, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Workers on the Road to January: Hisham Fouad and the Memory of Egypt’s Working Class
Workers on the Road to January: Hisham Fouad and the Memory of Egypt’s Working Class
Review
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November 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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L’égyptologue, dont le bilan de ministre est largement décrié par les spécialistes du patrimoine égyptien, a même adopté certaines des méthodes d’intimidation du régime Sissi.

Par @xavmon.bsky.social.
Un ami de la France et des généraux égyptiens à la tête de l’Unesco
Ancien ministre du Tourisme et des Antiquités, Khaled El-Enany sera nommé ce 6 novembre directeur général de l’Unesco. Une candidature poussée par la France d’Emmanuel Macron, grande pourvoyeuse de co...
www.blast-info.fr
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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My war on terror childhood trauma is healing
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Book review dropping tomorrow.
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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I was interviewed about the Abraham Accords for a new limited series on Arab-Israeli normalization. Tune in:

www.buzzsprout.com/2549212
BAD COUSINS
Beginning with a deceptively simple question - why are the Abraham Accords named after Abraham? – this series is a whirlwind tour of geopolitics, theology, pop culture, and anthropological theory that...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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We live in the dystopian world Dick Cheney made. Alligator Alcatraz, masked ICE agents disappearing brown people, blowing up random boats of people declared "enemy combatants" in a "war" with no borders, unfettered presidential power. Cheney created the lawless executive power Trump now exploits.
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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"Every architectural choice conveys an ideology of order, cleanliness, and control. The chaos of Cairo has been erased. Air is filtered, the light precise, the crowds disciplined. It is an Egypt without noise, an Egypt without Egyptians."
November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#OtD 2 Nov 1970 actor and Vietnam GI resistance supporter @JaneFonda was arrested at Cleveland airport after supporting Vietnam Veterans Against the War and charged with drug smuggling. The bogus charges were dismissed. Learn more about the resistance: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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📣 New Podcast! "3 November 2017: Marshall Islands fish strike" on @Spreaker #history #islands #marshall
3 November 2017: Marshall Islands fish strike
 Mini podcast of radical history on this date.
www.spreaker.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Must read about Egypt's new Grand Museum
"A regime obsessed with immortality is built on insecurity. It builds museums because it cannot build legitimacy."
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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This is good (and spare a thought for many of the people working there now).
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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"It was an incantation rather than a statement, a way to fuse past and present into one eternal regime.... Even mobile networks displayed the message “Egyptian and proud” in place of their names. The entire nation was drafted into a single act of self-admiration."
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM