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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
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LB 47 
EG 44 
PS 40 
IQ 28 
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YE 19 
TN 17 
JO 15 
SA 15 
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DZ 12 
LY 11 
AE 9 
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QA 7 
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Interview English EG 2023-08-07 Tier 2 Ayman Nour (Egypt's leading liberal opposition figure; founder, El-Ghad Party) — exclusive DAWN "Democracy in Exile" interview, 7 Aug 2023: frames the 2013 takeover as "a coup against the revolution," casts his exile as the price of free expression, and condemns Sisi-era arbitrary detention and frequent deaths of detainees in custody.
It was a coup against the revolution, and I left," Nour says in an exclusive interview with Democracy in Exile. "I left Egypt to be able to express my opinion and say what I wanted about what is happening in my country. Some people are arrested, but we do not know why they are arrested and why they are released or…
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Interview English EG 2016-04-08 Tier 2 Mohamed Aboul-Ghar (founder/first president of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party) — interview (per Atlantic Council, ~2016): the ESDP's constructive-critical middle ground — "We are neither an opposition party, nor a pro-government party… When the president does something good, we support him, and when he adopts what [we] believe are wrong decisions, we speak out."
We are neither an opposition party, nor a pro-government party. When the president does something good, we support him, and when he adopts what believe are wrong decisions, we speak out against those decisions.
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Interview English EG 2016-02-16 Tier 2 Bassem Youssef ("the Jon Stewart of Egypt"; satirist) — PBS NewsHour interview, 16 Feb 2016 (5th anniversary of Mubarak's fall): "A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time"; and a deadpan-satirical indictment of Egypt's repression — "There is absolutely no crackdown on freedom of speech."
A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time. We absolutely have no problem. Political satire shows like mine are still going on, on the air. There is absolutely no crackdown on freedom of speech.
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Interview English EG Tier 2 Ahmed Maher (co-founder, April 6 Youth Movement) — quoted in the Carnegie Endowment April 6 backgrounder: the Tunisian uprising "led us to think about protesting against corruption, poverty and unemployment." The Facebook-era youth movement that helped spark Jan 25, 2011; Maher was later jailed under the protest law.
led us to think about protesting against corruption, poverty and unemployment
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Interview English EG Tier 2 Patrick Zaki (Egyptian human-rights researcher; postgraduate at Bologna; jailed over a 2019 article on Coptic discrimination) — from a Deutsche Welle interview (via Coptic Solidarity): on his open-ended arbitrary detention ("renewed... like a phone plan") and the chilling effect on his writing — he published only two pieces for fear of provoking the prosecution.
My package of freedom has been renewed for another quarter of a year, like a phone plan. But I only published two pieces, since my legal team is constantly worried that I could anger the prosecution even more.