A few points need to be made here. First of all, I find it at least a bit strange when people refer to me as part of a ‘you’ that they call the ‘opposition’ and then tell me that this ‘we’ was supposed to create a coalition, and that since we have ‘offered none’ – I therefore have no right to ‘complain’. I am a video producer, a photographer, a graphic designer, a writer, and a musician. I am not, nor have I ever been, a politician. If I protested, it was not for a political party or a political ideology, when I write, it’s not for a party or an ideology, and the only ‘entity’ with which I’ve had any kind of regular attachment is the No Military Trials for Civilians group, of whose work I am very proud and by whose other members I am constantly humbled. My interest in the revolution from Day 1 has...

It has been almost a month since Ex-President Morsi was removed from office, and the conversation about whether or not he was removed by revolution or coup, or some unholy mixture of both has become both tedious and redundant. As usual, people are less concerned with logic, than with the fulfillment of their desires. Those who wanted Morsi removed but think ‘coup’ is a dirty word have (in complete disregard for the actual final mechanism of his removal) continued to insist that it wasn’t, and those who have struggled against the military from February 11th, 2011 to the present time are either flat-out admitting it was a coup (albeit one with huge popular support) and tried to (optimistically or doggedly) push towards re-framing it as a course-correction to the January 25th Revolution – that all but the most short-sighted understand to be a revolution still in...