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Gamal Abuel Hassan

Gamal Abuel Hassan is an Egyptian freelance journalist who writes on regional and foreign-policy issues. He writes a weekly column for Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt's leading daily newspaper.

Riot policemen run towards protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi during clashes at a rally in support of the judiciary, in front of El-Thadiya presidential palace in Cairo April 26, 2013. Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament must move quickly to adopt judicial reforms that have sparked a revolt by judges, the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm argued on Friday. The proposed reforms, which would get rid of more than 3,000 judges by lowering the retirement age, have widene

The Coming Egyptian Collapse

Gamal Abuel Hassan

An Egyptian soldier stands behind a barbed wire fence on the border between Israel and Egypt some 50 km (30 miles) north of Eilat in this November 28, 2010 file photo, after work begun to construct a barrier to seal off part of the border with Egypt's Sinai desert. Arms smuggling by Bedouin tribal networks, mainly by land along Egypt's southern border with Sudan, across the Sinai peninsula and into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip is on the uptick, according to an Egyptian official, who asked not to be named. Sudan

Morsi and Netanyahu: Business as Usual

Gamal Abuel Hassan