Sarah El Sirgany

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Sarah El Sirgany is a Cairo-based journalist and writer. She is an editor with Egypt Monocle. She was the deputy editor of Daily News Egypt and co-author of I Diari Della Rivoluzione. She blogs here http://sirgoslabyrinth.wordpress.com/ and tweets under @ssirgany. She has been recently listed among top 100 Arabs with presence on Twitter by Forbes Middle East.

Member since: Mon 21 November 2011

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Sarah El Sirgany's Articles

Drop Egypt's Debt: is this the solution?

Wednesday, 12 September, 2012 - 17:10

Cairo: Don’t pay the debt. This is the advice some British and Brazilian experts gave their Egyptian counterparts as a way of radically changing the country’s economic... Read article

Aug. 24: The coalition of the unlikely allies

Tuesday, 28 August, 2012 - 10:20

From the day the calls for a demonstration on Aug. 24 started, an unlikely alliance was revealed between politicians and infamous celebrities, who months ago would have... Read article

The conundrum of ideals, battles and enemies

Monday, 13 August, 2012 - 10:51

Cairo: Ideals that have fueled the revolutionary forces in Egypt are being continuously tested, especially when the question of how to treat enemies is posed: with the... Read article

Egypt delegates citizens instead of dysfunctional governance

Monday, 30 July, 2012 - 14:24

Cairo: It was cleanup weekend. The Muslim Brotherhood led a nationwide campaign to clean the streets suffering from a dysfunctional garbage collection system. Citizens... Read article

The side effects of switching camps

Saturday, 14 July, 2012 - 00:34

[Cairo, EGYPT] On Tuesday, as the parliament convened for minutes following President Mohamed Morsi’s decision to reverse the dissolution of the People’s Assembly ordered... Read article

Op-ed: Egypt locked in a courtroom drama

Friday, 29 June, 2012 - 16:05

CAIRO: In 1984, “Al-Avocato” (The Lawyer) was released in cinemas in Egypt, mocking judges, lawyers, officials and anyone who believes in the legal system. Comedy star Adel... Read article

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Jan 25: Egypt one year on

Tuesday, 24 January, 2012 - 10:06

There are two calls for commemorating Jan. 25 in Egypt: one to celebrate and another to continue protesting. It’s been a year since Egypt’s uprising, which took Tahrir Square... Read article

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Rhetoric 2: The democratic scarecrow

Tuesday, 13 December, 2011 - 09:58

CAIRO: It wasn’t long ago when Western diplomats would tell me they support then-president Hosni Mubarak for stability. The rise of the Islamists and a repeat of the Hamas... Read article

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Rhetoric: Logic aside

Tuesday, 22 November, 2011 - 09:51

CAIRO: Those who made the revolution are themselves the counter revolution, not the military council. That was a comment posted on a Facebook page. It’s part of a cyber war... Read article

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