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The absolutes of the religion, the matters over which there are no permissible differences of opinion, are very few; and there are even fewer in legislative matters relating to the public sphere. The bulk of what we know as Islamic Law is Fiqh, and the issues about which there is unanimous consensus are fewer than…

In Egypt, the corporate flood is only beginning. Healthcare, education, electricity, are all moving to privatization. The tourism sector will be dominated by Gulf companies. Every sector of the economy will be conquered; or rather, they have already been conquered on paper, in the loan agreements between the government and the IMF and World Bank,…