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

From January to June: Egypt’s ‘elite’ question

By virtue of my studies, my work and my own individual perversions,…

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Sisi come, Sisi go!

If somehow we managed to research the words used most frequently by…

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Manufacturing Fear

There was a taste lost between bitterness, anger and shock last Thursday…

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Lies my teacher told me

The title is originally sociologist James Loewen’s. In 1995, Loewen published his…

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Talking Box by Ziad Akl

So the ridiculous bipolarity continues; the army-Muslim Brotherhood conflict still very much…

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What went wrong in Egypt?

What really went wrong in Egypt was how rigid its politics became,…

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Brotherhood and violence

The Muslim Brotherhood refuses to be anything but a problematic “existence”. Trying…

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The Sisi Propaganda

So the day is done and as expected millions took to the…

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How we create Gods

Three weeks have passed since the Egyptian army’s commander-in-chief Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi…

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Egypt in another transition, what to expect this time?

Indeed, Egyptian people together with the Egyptian state have proved to be…

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