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The war of attrition against revolutionaries

The war of attrition against revolutionaries

Published 25/01/2017

Published in Al Jazeera on January 25, 2017 By Khaled Diab Khaled Diab is an award-winning Egyptian-Belgian journalist, writer and blogger. He is the author of Intimate Enemies: Living with Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy Land. He blogs at www.chronikler.com With the world’s attention on Washington and the new administration’s open assault on the media and journalists, whom Donald Trump described as “among the most dishonest human beings on earth“, few eyes are turned to Egypt, where “alternative facts” have been a reality for some time, and its continued clampdown on the press and civil society. Among the recent…

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Q & A with the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Q & A with the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Published 05/02/2016

Published on the website of the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies on February 5, 2016 Khaled Fahmy is the 2015–2016 Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His research interests lie in the social and cultural history of modern Egypt. He has been conducting research in the Egyptian National Archives for the past twenty years on such diverse topics as the history of law, medicine, and public hygiene. Since the outbreak of the January 25 Revolution, he also has been a regular contributor to Egyptian and international media. What courses did…

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How A Leading Egyptian Historian Found Himself In The Middle Of A Revolution

How A Leading Egyptian Historian Found Himself In The Middle Of A Revolution

Published 29/01/2016

An article by Nick Robins-Early published in The Huffington Post on January 29, 2016 Khaled Fahmy shares his memories of Egypt’s uprising, five years after Tahrir.   After over a decade of teaching in the United States, Professor Khaled Fahmy arrived in Cairo a few months before the Egyptian revolution. A leading historian of modern Egypt and an expert on the Middle East, he would find himself unexpectedly at the center of one of the most pivotal moments in the region’s history. Fahmy joined thousands of others in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where 18 days of intense protests finally caused Egyptian…

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The Great Arab Revolt of 1916

The Great Arab Revolt of 1916

Published 20/06/2015

A BBC program on the Great Arab Revolt recorded live in Amman, Jordan, as part of the BBC’s commemoration of the centenary anniversary of WWI. This episode is part of a 12-part series titled The War That Changed the World. With Mouin Rabbani and Aly Mahafza. Lyse Ducet moderating. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02tmcvc

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