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An Unusual Heavy-Metal Love Story…
Beth Winegarner talks to Sherine Amr of the band Massive Scar Era, and looks at the growing number of female heavy-metal musicians in the West: http://nyr.kr/Z0cKm2
Photograph: Courtesy Massive Scar Era.
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"…One could ask how much less complicated it really was when we were wound up in the Mubarak regime, with all its dynastic pathologies. Complicity and simplicity are not the same thing. But to leave it at that is slightly too facile: Egypt’s emergency is not Egypt’s alone, and some rhetorical clarity from the Obama Administration, if nothing else, would be helpful."
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Photographer Moises Saman has been covering the Arab Spring and its repercussions since the revolution’s inception in Tunisia, 2010. Of the Egyptian Revolution, Saman says, “The past two years in Egyptian politics have been like a turbulent soap opera, playing out on the streets of Cairo for all the world to see… the next act in this political theatre might be the hardest to predict.” Click-through for a slideshow of his photographs: http://nyr.kr/WTesFr
(Source: newyorker.com)
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This week, Laura El-Tantawy will be documenting her hometown of Cairo via The New Yorker’s Instagram feed. While this is expected to be another turbulent week in Egypt—read Peter Hessler’s Comment in our new issue for the latest—Tantawi will focus on the periphery, bringing us snapshots of daily life in Cairo, as well as photos of a ten-member fishing family who live on small boats on the Nile. Above, Amr, a fisherman, performs prayer on his boat. Follow @newyorkermag for updates.
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Brother's Keepers→
Peter Hessler writes about the increasingly tense and politically fractured environment in Egypt under Mohamed Morsi: http://nyr.kr/Ru9Yc8
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Steve Coll: Can the Muslim Brotherhood Be Trusted?→
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
is grappling now with the dilemmas of seizing and holding national power, as the whole world looks on in a state of tightening anxiety.
The spectacle is riveting because the political future of Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation, hangs in the balance. It is fascinating, too, because it is a kind of proving ground for long-running debates about whether an Islamist revolutionary movement such as the Brotherhood can ever adapt itself to Western-style constitutional democracy, preserving the rights of minorities and space for individual conscience…
Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/XeLaBu
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In Cairo, a young man named Mustafa Ibrahim tells Peter Hessler that “Islam is like a tennis ball. When you hit it hard, it bounces back higher. An incident like this will just strengthen the religion.”
Peter Hessler on Cairo: Between the Protesters and the Embassy: http://nyr.kr/PfTijG
Photograph by Peter Hessler.
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"If there’s any joy in the news of #Mubarak’s possible death, I haven’t witnessed it."
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Despite their recent maneuvers, the generals presided over a free and fair election. As they said in the press conference, “Much has changed since the revolution.” After months of demonstrations against a regime that was still pretty much intact after Mubarak’s fall had failed to dislodge the status quo, I had begun to doubt that. But Morsi’s victory—even amid the confusion and dismay—shows that it is, maybe, finally true.
Egypt: The Army and The President: http://nyr.kr/M1X6pq
