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Egypt’s innocent donkeys, by Nael M Shama
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Rarely does a work of art epitomise the complex sociopolitical realities of its time. But a film from Egypt’s past does just that. Al-Baree (The Innocent, 1985) tells a tale of tyranny and elucidates its dynamics with skill. Starring the actor Ahmed Zaki — Egypt’s Al Pacino — and directed by Atef al-Tayeb, a pioneer of the new realism wave in Egyptian cinema, The Innocent says a lot about politics in Egypt, and the failure of its 2011 revolution.

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Bomb kills police brigadier in #Cairo
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bomb-kills-police-brigadier-cairo

An Egyptian police brigadier general was killed Wednesday by a bomb placed under his car in Cairo, security officials said, in the fifth such attack targeting police in the capital within a week. The explosion in the upscale western suburb of October 6 killed Ahmed Zaki, a commander in #Egypt's central security forces, who have been at the forefront of a wide-ranging crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi. read more

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