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No Real Estate Taxation Without Representation?
Some Background Something potentially important just happened in Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak personally announced that a planned new real estate tax, expected to come into effect this year, would...
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Homecoming Dance
We haven’t translated anything in a while, and we’ve got a mild case of bloggers’ block, so we decided to translate an op-ed by Professor of Political Science at Cairo University (and possibly...
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Baradei’s Now
Alaa al-Aswani catches a lot of flack for being the official go-to person for lazy Western reporters seeking comment on whatever has seized their inane fancy that week. As we’re in no position to...
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The Long and Winding Road
Higher Committees and such are nice, but grassroots organizing is better. Like everyone else, we’ve been focusing on ElBaradei, and the steadily climbing number of supporters he’s attracted on the...
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NEWSWEAK
TBE WEB EXCLUSIVE If there’s one thing that’ll awaken TBE from the non-alcoholic champagne and caviar haze in which we currently live, it’s poorly argued journalism about Mohamed ElBaradei. Reading...
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The Second Coming: Slouching Towards Qasr al-Qobba
TBE still carries a torch, however flickering, for Mohamed ElBaradei, but we feel the need to offer some advice on his* “campaign,” and where we see things moving from here. We originally intended to...
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Left Behind
Who knew the US government had a sewing book? “This was a campaign for social behavioral change,” he said. “I would ask people, ‘What do you do when you’re frustrated?’ And they would say, ‘I march.’ ”...
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المشير في متاهته
Filed under: Books, Downtown, Downtown Personages, Politics, Translations
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Rolling in the Deep State
“We could’ve had it all if it weren’t for those pesky kids” -Omar Suleiman Filed under: Conspiracy...
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