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Folk resting beside Ancient Egypt's Nile. (Annual flooding not shown.) SO IMAGINE YOU'RE AN ancient Egyptian. You know: pharaohs, ca...

If that sounds like an unusual headline, then consider that the ideas of Hernando De Soto have been credited not just with helping turn arou...

My favourite online historian, Scott Powell , reckons history is desperately needed to understand how Egypt’s crisis has unfolded, and where...

News overnight that Egyptians are being killed en-masse by their government is hardly inspiring--especially since the reasons for the bloodl...

This 12-year-old Egyptian boy knows what’s going on. Huffington Post has some background to the interview : In a video interview wi...

It’s not true just for Egypt. It’s true for every Islamic nation …  (Click the pic to enlarge) which is why it’s best never to confuse ...

Last year after protests against Hosni Mubarak’s military rule, President Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was installed as leader.  And ever...

I’m struggling to understand why everyone’s so happy about the outcome in Egypt. For nearly sixty years—ever since Lieutenant-Colonel Nasse...

I keep being told by people “in the know” that the coming of “real democracy” to Egypt will bring real freedom. Rubbish. The whole idea ...

Although some are still fooled by the talk of “freedom” around Cairo, the onset of an Islamic dictator in 2011 is looking all but inevitable...

There will be no attractive outcome from the incipient revolution in Cairo’s streets.  On one side, fighting for survival, a  nationalistic ...

‎"The events of any given period of history are the result of the thinking of the preceding period. The nineteenth century [for example...

Philip Duck from SOLO wants to know why New Zealand is required to prostrate itself before the world’s torturers?     New Zealand's J...