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19 Apr 2011
Potential Egyptian presidential candidate Ayman Nour severely criticized the country’s interim administration and other potential presidential candidates in an interview Sunday with Al-Masry Al-Youm.
An Egyptian court five years ago...
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06 Apr 2011
On Friday, 25 March, Egyptian-American engineer Mohamed Radwan, 32, was arrested and detained in Damascus by Syrian authorities while photographing anti-regime protests in the city. The next day, he appeared on Syrian state television and...
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23 Mar 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood is not planning to seek power in Egypt's elections this year but says it will not limit its political ambitions forever and wants secular parties to get organized to foster true competition.
"Everyone must...
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10 Mar 2011
Tahani al-Gebali, Egypt’s first female judge and vice president of the Supreme Constitutional Court, has recently taken the role of one of the most outspoken critics of the proposed constitutional amendments. As the countdown for the...
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02 Mar 2011
Hesham El-Bastawisi is a pro-reform judge who in 2005 threw himself, along with other judges, into a fierce confrontation with the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak over the issue of judicial independence. The 59-year-old vice-...
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01 Mar 2011
Ali Abdulemam is a prominent digital activist in Bahrain, recently released from prison in a move the government hopes will tame growing protests. The 30-year-old computer engineer established bahrainonline.org in 1998, which has...
Yes
15 Feb 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood will be the only group in Egypt ready for a parliamentary election unless others are given a year or more to recover from years of oppression, said a former Brotherhood politician seeking to found his own party.
Abou...
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20 Jan 2011
The Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi may soon sign an accord on water usage from the Nile River, paving the way for ratification of a pact that strips Egypt of its rights to the flow from the world’s longest river.
The...
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17 Jan 2011
When I came across a small kiosk in the Upper Egyptian city of Minya and asked for the hotel of Ibn Khassib, a young man in his twenties smiled at me, saying, "There is nothing easier for a stranger in Minya than finding the small...
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23 Dec 2010
Mohamed ElBaradei has chosen an interesting time to re-enter the Egyptian political arena. After his calls for a parliamentary election boycott were ignored by the Muslim Brotherhood and the liberal opposition Wafd Party, ElBaradei watched...
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