Ziad A. Akl

Ziad A. Akl is a political analyst and sociologist. He is a senior researcher at the Egyptian Studies Unit in Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.
96 Articles

Ramadan: individuality and conformity

This piece might be uncomfortable for some people. Over the years, we…

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Egypt in a monopoly of information

Day after day, there are more signs demonstrating the lack of any…

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25 April: Egypt’s paradox of repression

State repression has been one of the main characteristics of Egypt’s post-30…

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Unanswered questions in Giulio Regeni’s case

I wrote about Regeni’s case almost two months ago when his body…

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The revolution’s ghetto

This is an uncomfortable topic. Over the past five years, the meaning,…

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Ahmed Naji: Creativity and morality in Egypt

Naji’s recent sentence is not the first and will not be the…

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The death of Giulio Regeni, a fellow researcher

I will try my best to be as brief and as concise…

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The fear of sarcasm

Among the various traits that characterise the period after the 30 June…

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25 January 2016

Over the course of the past five years, we have grown accustomed…

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Whatever happened to social movements?

Three weeks from now, the fifth anniversary of the January revolution will…

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