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Nov 21, 2013

Top News: Army Chief Sisi Does Not Rule out Presidential Bid

By EgyptSource

Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, held open the possibility he might run for the presidency in an interview published on Thursday in a Kuwaiti newspaper.

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Nov 21, 2013

Military Trials for Civilians: Justice Denied

By Mai El-Sadany

With discussions up to the last minute, the fifty-member Constituent Assembly, tasked with re-writing Egypt’s Constitution, has made a final decision on one of the body’s most contentious issues: military trials for civilians.  On November 20, the Assembly voted in favor of maintaining military trials for civilians, despite the significant implications that such a decision […]

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Nov 21, 2013

Point/Counterpoint: Is the Polisario a Legitimate Broker in Western Sahara?

By Mehrunisa Qayyum & Nabil Ouchagour

On the eve of Moroccan King Mohamed VI’s visit to the United States, observers of Moroccan-US relations are keeping a close eye on the first high-level visit between the two countries’ leaders since US President Barack Obama took office.

North Africa

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Nov 20, 2013

Top News: Jordanians Charged with Terrorism Over Campus Clashes

By MENASource

Jordanian military prosecutors on Wednesday charged fifteen men, including students, with carrying out “terrorist acts” over clashes on a university campus that injured four people, a judicial official said.

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Nov 20, 2013

Top News: Car Bomb Kills Twelve Soldiers in Sinai

By EgyptSource

Twelve soldiers were killed, and at least thirty others wounded, in a car bombing incident in Kharouba near Arish, North Sinai, on Wednesday morning. Assailants also attacked a police checkpoint in eastern Cairo in the early hours of Wednesday morning, injuring four policemen with a homemade bomb. 

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Nov 20, 2013

Jordan: A Model for Reform or a Black Hole?

By Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Jordanians affectionately refer to their country as “the black hole of the Middle East” for a reason. For any native, underneath all the presumptuous assertions that “I don’t fear the mukhabarat! I’m not afraid to speak my mind in this country,” and “We have freedom of speech—the government wouldn’t do anything to harm us,” there […]

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Nov 19, 2013

Top News: Russia Strikes Missile Deal with Egypt

The head of Russia’s state-controlled industrial holding company says Moscow has signed a deal to provide Egypt with air defense missile systems. Monday’s statement by Russian Technologies chief Sergei Chemezov followed last week’s trip to Egypt by Russia’s foreign and defense ministries.

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Nov 19, 2013

Lina Attalah on the Sisi Mania in Egypt

By MENASource

The hypernationalism that has taken hold in Egypt centers around the oft-touted Nasser-like saviour of a nation, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. One can hardly to walk the streets of Cairo without catching some glimpse of homage paid to the General in the form of chocolates, posters, or even provactive internet videos.

North Africa

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Nov 19, 2013

Happy Birthday, General

By Lina Attalah

“Where else have you seen Sisi today?” This is the question around which Sisi Fetish, a new contribution to Egypt’s thriving landscape of political satire, was born. The blog sheds light on how the popularity of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, commander in chief of Egypt’s Armed Forces, is expressing itself these days in a variety of quotidian […]

North Africa

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Nov 19, 2013

Top News: Mohamed Mahmoud Protests Continue Amid Minor Clashes

By EgyptSource

Mild clashes broke out between supporters of the army-backed government and their opponents near Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday. Scores of protesters began gathering around Cairo’s Tahrir Square early Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of anti-army protests in 2011.