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The rise of a Pharaoh: The Arab Spring’s first dictator

Nezar AlSayyad, professor emeritus of architecture, planning and urban history | November 24, 2012

Over the course of the past two years, the Arab World celebrated the fall of several of its most brutal dictators but last week it witnessed the meteoric rise of yet a new dictator, President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt. While the world was occupied with celebrating the cessation of hostilities between Hamas and Israel in … Continue reading »