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Vietnam on the Nile? With Chinese investment, Egypt turns to Solar Panel Manufacturing
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Vietnam on the Nile? With Chinese investment, Egypt turns to Solar Panel Manufacturing

Juan Cole

If Egyptians manage their affairs well, they could become the Vietnam of the Middle East with regard to solar panel production.

Facing protests and new Threats from Trump, is the Iranian Regime on its last legs?

Facing protests and new Threats from Trump, is the Iranian Regime on its last legs?

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Top Ten Accomplishments of Egypt Demonstrators

Top Ten Accomplishments of Egypt Demonstrators

The protest movement in Egypt scored several victories on Friday, but did not actually succeed in getting President Hosni Mubarak to step down. Their accomplishments […]

Juan Cole

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Cunningham: Every Uprising is Different

Cunningham: Every Uprising is Different

Philip J Cunningham writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Every uprising is different. But given shared human strengths and weaknesses, the dynamics of […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Repression Fails as Thousands Demand Mubarak Departure

Repression Fails as Thousands Demand Mubarak Departure

Anti-Mubarak Egyptians prepared themselves on Friday for a major campaign of street protests that they are calling not another “Day of Wrath” but rather a […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu

Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu

It should be remembered that Egypt’s elite of multi-millionaires has benefited enormously from its set of corrupt bargains with the US and Israel and from […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Mubarak's Basij

Mubarak’s Basij

On Wednesday, the Mubarak regime showed its fangs, mounting a massive and violent repressive attack on the peaceful crowds in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Why Egypt 2011 is not Iran 1979

Why Egypt 2011 is not Iran 1979

Alarms have been raised by those observing the popular uprising in Egypt that, while it is not itself a Muslim fundamentalist movement, the Muslim fundamentalists […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Pressman: The Cyclical vs. the Fundamental in U.S. Policy

Pressman: The Cyclical vs. the Fundamental in U.S. Policy

Jeremy Pressman writes in a guest column for Informed Comment The Cyclical vs. the Fundamental in U.S. Policy: Suddenly both are in flux If you […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Saad’s Revolution: Cole at Truthdig

Saad’s Revolution: Cole at Truthdig

My tribute to Saad Eddin Ibrahim, with whom I studied, is out at Truthdig. Excerpt: ‘ Saad Eddin Ibrahim has spoken out forcefully on human […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Million-Person Marches and the Army Backs Off

Million-Person Marches and the Army Backs Off

Despite efforts of the regime of Hosni Mubarak to forestall it by canceling trains to Cairo and throwing up checkpoints, masses of Egyptians poured into […]

Juan Cole

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