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Articles of the author Gamal Eid
The president's promises and night-time speeches
There is an old Egyptian adage that goes: “Night-time speeches, greased in butter, melt away when the morning comes." Even he who utters such promises does not believe them to be true, and no sooner does the sun rise do they fade into the wind. I (...)

14 - 01 - 2013
Freedom of expression and the religious state
In 2008, while veteran journalist and writer Ibrahim Eissa was receiving the Jibran Twini Lebanese Pioneer Press Award from the World Association of Newspapers in conjunction with the Lebanese newspaper al-Nahar, an American journalist named Marmuq (...)

09 - 01 - 2013
From the other side
Advice to the president I was not amongst those who felt pride when President Morsy opened his shirt in front of tens of thousands of people in Tahrir Square and showed that he was not in fact wearing a flak vest during his swearing in ceremony (...)

03 - 01 - 2013
From the other side
The other Islam Before the 25 January revolution, I had reached a point where I had ceased to feel surprised or shocked when something new would come out about the dictatorial practices of the Mubarak regime. Regardless as to how some would react, (...)

17 - 12 - 2012
To the prosecutor-general: Leave
Establishing justice in Egypt after years of law serving tyranny is impossible under the current prosecutor-general and his assistants, writes Gamal Eid When I was a law student in the 1980s, I learned this important maxim: "It is not enough for a (...)

25 - 10 - 2012
Gamal Eid: From the Other Side
Gamal Eid Bahrain's Revolution and President Morsy President Dr. Mohamed Morsy has given nearly twelve speeches. Since he came to power in the beginning of July, we have followed him closely as have many others not just in Egypt but in all parts of (...)

21 - 10 - 2012
From the other side: A secular diary under the Muslim Brotherhood
Only a few leaders and political groups believed in the ability of the youth to challenge the regime and foil its celebrations of a Police Day to honour the torturers of Egyptians on 25 January, 2011, while the majority of those who took to the (...)

14 - 10 - 2012
From the other side: The inspired leader and the constitution
Gamal Eid How many years we spent! How many years will we wait for the ruler to be convinced that his position in power is temporary and that his belief that he is the inspired leader, the sole ruler or God's successor on earth do not justify his (...)

23 - 09 - 2012
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