Sixty world leaders and dignitaries attended Sunday’s solidarity rally in Paris, leaping at the occasion to be seen as “staunch defenders” of the press, even while many of them are guilty of suppressing free speech themselves.
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Fadi Abou Hassan on the dropping of all charges against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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Egyptian cartoonist Doaa Eladl on the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Thank you for two amazing years, Hamdy el-Gazzar, who is signing off from Sampsonia Way. Without fail, his column provided insight into politics in Egypt, pressing social issues, and contemporary Egyptian literature.
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Thank you for two amazing years, Hamdy el-Gazzar, who is signing off from Sampsonia Way. Without fail, his column provided insight into politics in Egypt, pressing social issues, and contemporary Egyptian literature.
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Hamdy el-Gazzar highlights the Egyptian intellectual response to the arrests of twenty-four activists who were charged with “breaking the law of demonstrating, damaging public and private property and demonstrating power…”
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Three Al Jazeera staff have been sentenced to seven years in prison for journalism – or “spreading lies” as the Egyptian regime would have us believe. #FreeAJStaff
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