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Khaled Fahmy
Islamists and Transitional Justice
Suddenly, and in the same week, three of the largest Islamist movements started talking about transitional justice, demanding its implementation at once. Spokesman for the Salfist front, Hisham Kamal, asserted, "Mubarak should have been tried for all his crimes from the start, not only for killing protestors." Political consultant to al-Bina’ wa-al-Tanmiya (Building and Development) Party, the political army of al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya, and member of the ...
Keep Reading »The Tragedy of Books in Egypt
Looking at Egypt, historian Khaled Fahmy affords a harrowing insight into the status of that most indispensable of commodities: the book. In recent weeks I encountered two incidents that made me feel extremely sorrowful about the situation of books, reading, and indeed culture, in Egypt. The first happened in New York City, and requires a brief background. For the past few years, I have been working on a book that tackles the social and cultural history of Egypt during ...
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