Egyptian Politics Has Gone So Crazy It Needs a New Word to Explain It

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CAIRO -- During the height of Hosni Mubarak's autocracy, author Saad Eddine Ibrahim crafted a new word to describe his country's plight: Egypt, he said, was now a jumlukiya . The neologism combined the Arabic word for "republic" ( jumhuriya Read More...

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Posted Jul 12 2013, 11:26 AM by FP Passport