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Nov 8, 2013

Top News: Egypt to Hold Parliamentary Vote in February/March: Foreign Minister

By EgyptSource

Egypt said on Friday it would hold parliamentary elections in February or March, with presidential polls in early summer, and that the political arm of ousted president Mohamed Morsi’s banned Muslim Brotherhood could participate. Fahmy told Reuters in an interview that the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party “is still legal in Egypt” and free to participate in […]

MENASource

Nov 8, 2013

Top News: Heavy Fighting Rocks Libyan Capital as Rival Militias Battle

By MENASource

Rival militiamen battled each other for several hours with anti-aircraft guns and grenades throughout the capital on Thursday, following reports that the commander of the Misrata Nosoor Battalion, Nuri Friwan, had passed away from injuries from an earlier incident at a Tripoli checkpoint. Two people were killed and several others wounded in the worst violence […]

MENASource

Nov 8, 2013

EconSource Headlines- November 8, 2013

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the the Arab transition countries. 

MENASource

Nov 8, 2013

EconSource Headlines- November 7, 2013

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

MENASource

Nov 8, 2013

Amr Hamzawy on Egypt’s Turn for the Worse

By MENASource

Amr Hamzawy, prominent Egyptian academic, founder of the Freedom Egypt Party, and former parliamentarian in 2012, wrote a particularly poignant article describing his experience at the funeral at St. Mark’s church in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis and reflecting on the sad and dangerous turn in the course of Egypt’s political and social development.

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MENASource

Nov 8, 2013

Two Sorrowful Scenes at a Church Funeral

By Amr Hamzawy

While attending the funeral of my colleague’s aunt at St. Mark’s church in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, a woman in attendance approached me asking if she could ask a question. While I was expecting a question about my position on the course of events of July 3, 2013 and after, this delicate woman’s voice […]

North Africa

MENASource

Nov 7, 2013

Top News: Tunisian Youth Shut Out of Politics

By MENASource

Tunisian youths have voiced dissatisfaction at the lack of opportunity to contribute to the political dialogue. Naima Charmiti, a thirty-two year old who runs the arabesque.tn news website stated that “the revolution of the youths has been confiscated by the old who were hiding at home or abroad during the popular uprising.”

MENASource

Nov 7, 2013

Top News: Brotherhood Vows to Endure Despite Ban as Morsi’s Wife Pays Him a Visit

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has said its Islamic principles will ensure it survives despite a “politicized” decision to ban the decades-old group. The statement on Wednesday came hours after an appeal court in Cairo upheld a decision to ban the group and any group derived from it, and for its assets to be seized. “The coup […]

MENASource

Nov 7, 2013

EgyptSource Review of “The Square”

By MENASource

Director Jehane Noujaim’s The Square, a feature documentary that chonicles five revolutionaries through the January 25, 2011 uprising in Egypt and its dramitic political aftermath up to the June 30 protests against then-president Mohammed Morsi, captures a uniquely Egyptian and human perspective on the struggle for freedom and identity.

MENASource

Nov 6, 2013

The People of The Square

By Amir Beshay

From its opening scene of masses chanting “The people want the downfall of the regime” in Tahrir in January 2011, you can tell that The Square will not be an easy movie to watch. From the widely-publicized birds-eye view of Tahrir, director Jehane Noujaim’s The Square zooms in on the lives of five very different […]

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