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  • 9 Feb 2012
    Egypt's Christian leaders urge focus on humanitarian need

    Egyptian Christian leaders say that while politics and religion are garnering most attention right now, urgent humanitarian needs must be addressed.

  • 1 Feb 2012
    A new Egypt for all Egyptians?

    In viewing the first anniversary of the 25 January 2011 Revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak and set forth many changes that would have simply been unthinkable twelve months ago in Egypt, we should bear in mind that the deep socio-economic and technological structures of civilisations play out over long periods of time, says Dr Harry Hagopian. Here he offers a perspective on the development and prospects of those recent events in Egypt, and responses to them.

  • 1 Feb 2012
    Bishop Angaelos and the anniversary of the Egypt uprising

    HG Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, has issued a careful and thoughtful statement on the first anniversary of the uprising in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, which took place on the 25 January 2011.

  • 28 Jan 2012
    New year, new direction in the Middle East?

    Can we expect 2012 to be as monumentally eventful in the Middle East as 2011? Perhaps even more so.

  • 24 Jan 2012
    UK 'arming repression' in Egypt say campaigners

    Anti-arms trade campaigners will present a petition at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office calling on the UK government to end arms sales to repressive regimes.

  • 24 Jan 2012
    Release of Egptian blogger end of 'cruel ordeal'

    The release of an Egyptian blogger and prisoner of conscience whose trial was flagrantly unfair comes months too late, says Amnesty International.

  • 3 Jan 2012
    UK ministers aim to arm more despotic regimes in 2012

    2012 will see the UK government sending arms sales delegations to countries who use violent repression against protestors

  • 22 Dec 2011
    End arms exports to Egypt, says Amnesty

    Amnesty International says global arms suppliers must halt the transfer of small arms, ammunition and other equipment to the Egyptian military and security forces.

  • 30 Nov 2011
    Developments in Syria, Egypt and beyond

    My latest Middle East Analysis pod-cast is a two-parter whose chief foci this time round are the fast-moving developments in Syria and Egypt.

  • 28 Nov 2011
    The UK's Department for Dodgy Deals

    The UK government is demanding payment from Egypt for money loaned to Mubarak to help him to buy weapons. The money is claimed by the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), a secretive unit of Vince Cable's Department for Business. It has a habit of backing arms deals and fossil fuels and creating unjust debt.