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Articles of the author Mirette F Mabrouk
The naked truth
CAIRO: Apparently, we didn't have enough on our plates. The economy is trembling under the strain of nine months of uncertainty. Over 12,000 civilians have been subjected to military trials. We have less than two weeks to go before Egypt's first (...)

20 - 11 - 2011
Military might
I learnt a new word the other day: “stratocracy.” That's a ruling system where the state is ruled directly by the military. Apparently, it's rather different from a military dictatorship, where power merely resides with the military. I might be hazy (...)

24 - 10 - 2011
Good intentions are not enough
It's far from an ideal solution but one has to start somewhere. Last month 12 year-old Bodour Shaker died while undergoing a routine cliterodectomy at a private clinic in Minya, in Upper Egypt. Her death led to a new ban on the procedure, (...)

12 - 07 - 2007
The politics of perception
June was not a good month for Muslims. To be fair, May wasn't particularly great, either. In fact, come to think of it, things have been pretty bad since September 11, 2001. There are myriad issues, most of them far too serious to make light (...)

05 - 07 - 2007
Some people just never learn: proposed teachers' law shows that someone just doesn't get it
Everyone with children in schools raise your hands. Now, those of you who are shelling out money for "private tuition keep your hands up. Chances are, the room's still full of a sea of trembling raised hands. However, you can all heave a (...)

12 - 06 - 2007
Cairo's Islamic art, on your coffee table
I have no idea why books like these are called coffee table books. Nor, for that matter, do I know why those tables are called coffee tables, since one presumes that people place all sorts of things on them. Like huge books with lots and lots of (...)

31 - 01 - 2007
The boomerang effect
The Hussein execution is likely to have serious repercussions for the region I miss the old days of colonialism. You know, the days when the suppression of the natives was done with a little panache. Nowadays, it's all shoving and a none-too (...)

02 - 01 - 2007
Fame, fortune and a social conscience
If you were passing by the American University in Cairo yesterday afternoon, you might have been forgiven for thinking there was rock concert held at its gates. The air trembled with full-throated, bloodcurdling screams. If the Arabs had (...)

14 - 12 - 2006
A public affair
Perhaps ministers shouldn't speak publicly on private matters? The minister of culture's had a busy week. He set off a firestorm and also managed to drag to the surface matters that lie uneasily beneath this society's surface. Last week, Dr (...)

22 - 11 - 2006
How can a culture that sanctifies female honor do so little to uphold it?
This is a kind country. It's one that promotes family values. Its culture nurtures the old, the sick, the poor and children. Its strong religious beliefs, both Muslim and Christian, teach respect for women. Right. It's very possible that those (...)

01 - 11 - 2006
Trust in me
The NDP just wants you to love them. Really I think people should give the National Democratic Party a break. Really, it's unfair the way that party's been treated. Its members can't help that they belong to the largest and most powerful party (...)

28 - 09 - 2006
Another rail accident. Now what?
Look, there's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that if you're Egyptian, you're more likely to drop dead of a heart attack than be killed in a transport accident. The bad news is, not much. Figures on those subjects tend to (...)

29 - 08 - 2006
Win some, lose some
The war in Lebanon has produced some surprising outcomes More than a month after Israel started pounding Lebanon for the kidnap of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah, a ceasefire has been brought to the table.It is a miserable fact of this whole (...)

15 - 08 - 2006
Superman wears tights, so that makes him a transvestite, right?
A couple of nights ago, someone sent me something entitled "A Difficult Lesson. It was billed as 'the best commentary I've seen on the current Israeli conflict.' It read very like one of those urban myths - you know, the ones where someone (...)

31 - 07 - 2006
The elusive myth of press freedom
We re Egyptians, we like fairy tales. Aly Baba and the 40 Thieves, Joha, One ?Thousand and One Nights. Oh, and the most modern of our fairy tales; the one about social and political reform. Most Egyptians know that one; it s ongoing. If only (...)

08 - 07 - 2006
The end of an era
Saad Zaghloul must be threshing around in his grave. One of Egypt's best-known and loved nationalist figures, Zaghloul led a delegation, or 'Wafd' to demand the immediate evacuation of British troops from Egypt in November 1918. He was (...)

03 - 04 - 2006
Stop whining and do something about it
I don't have a voting card. I need to confess that up front. I am, however, getting one. I'm very much a product of my generation and social strata. We tend to be well-educated, well-meaning, and largely apathetic. We have opinions and (...)

06 - 12 - 2005
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