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Farewell, Samer Soliman

Dec 24 2012
[Samer Soliman, 1968-2012. Photo taken on 29 September 2008, by Hossam el-Hamalawy via Flickr]

“Today I lost part of my life. Farewell, Samer,” scholar Amr Abdel Rahman wrote of his longtime friend Samer Soliman, who family, friends, students, and readers lost Sunday after his battle with cancer.  Soliman’s death at a critical juncture in the history of Egypt, a nation he lived of and for, has shaken many. As a scholar, an intellectual, an activist, a teacher, and a friend, he lived a life of continual giving.  Soliman led a thorough academic life, ...

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The Draft Constitution: Some Controversial Stipulations

Dec 01 2012
[Protests in Tahrir on November 30th. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]

  After long hours of article-by-article voting on the Egyptian constitution by the Constituent Assembly, the draft was passed on early Friday. The current draft has been submitted to President Mohamed Morsy, who in turn will put it up for a referendum, the conditions of which remain unknown in the wake of a recent crisis between the president and the judiciary. However, the draft follows a tumultuous and unresolved writing process, with many non-Islamist members ...

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Bio

Lina Attalah

 

Lina Attalah is the managing editor of Egypt Independent, the sister publication of Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt's widely distributed daily. Her areas of interest include migration, border communities, technology, and intellectual history.

[I]t was hard to imagine that seven months later Egypt would remain a country of emergency laws and military trials ... in which labor strikes and demands for distributive justice are demonized and dismissed by decision makers and opinion shapers.
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