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Top News: Egyptian Workers to Press for Revolution’s Demands on Labor Day

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May 28, 2025

Sectarianism, social media, and Syria’s information blackhole

Since Assad’s December ousting, Syrians have struggled to sift the truth from fake claims about security incidents across the country.

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Top News: Egyptian Workers to Press for Revolution’s Demands on Labor Day

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May 28, 2025

Mickey goes to the Gulf: The UAE’s wish upon a soft power star

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Amit Yarom

In a region often defined by hard power rivalries, Abu Dhabi has chosen to compete through visibility, credibility and imagination.

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Top News: Egyptian Workers to Press for Revolution’s Demands on Labor Day

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May 27, 2025

Jordan-Israel security cooperation continues quietly but unabated 

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Emily Milliken

Despite diplomatic setbacks from the Israel-Gaza war, military and intelligence cooperation continues to thrive between the two neighbors.

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May 1, 2013

Top News: Egyptian Workers to Press for Revolution’s Demands on Labor Day

By Egypt Source

On Wednesday, Egyptian workers will celebrate the first Labor Day since the election of President Mohamed Morsi, by voicing longstanding demands and unfulfilled promises. A march organized by dozens of political parties, movements and labor organizations saw thousands of workers march from Sayyeda Zeinab near downtown Cairo to the Shura Council.

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May 1, 2013

Libya, Egypt and the Corruption of New Democracies

By Karim Mezran and Tarek Radwan

The rhetoric of the Arab spring and the democratization process, perhaps best paraphrased as “new government, new policies, new dynamics,” emphasizes respect for the rule of law and the maintenance of higher moral standards than those of the corrupt prior regimes. There are, nevertheless, many incidents that demonstrate that this rhetoric is not real, and […]

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May 1, 2013

Syria: The Chemical Weapons Red Line

By Frederic C. Hof

The real significance of Syria’s likely crossing of US President Barack Obama’s chemical weapons red line may be that it will focus the administration’s attention on here-and-now Syria policy options as it has not been focused heretofore. As the president said in his April 30 press conference, regime culpability in using chemical weapons would force […]

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Apr 30, 2013

Space for Culture, Time for Art

By Elisabeth Jaquette

Despite a backdrop of sporadic clashes, presidential power grabs, and crackdowns on freedom of expression, Egypt’s arts and culture sector has flourished since January 2011. While many artists feel unable to respond effectively to political events in their personal work, and traditional institutions have been faced with varying challenges, the past two years have given […]

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Apr 30, 2013

Top News: Egypt Pulls Out of Talks to Protest Middle East Nuclear Arms

By Egypt Source

Egypt said on Monday it was withdrawing from a second week of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) talks in Geneva in protest at what it called the failure to implement a 1995 resolution for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons. That was an implicit reference to Israel which neither confirms nor denies having nuclear arms and […]

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Apr 30, 2013

Eroding Civil Liberties in Kuwait

By Mary Ann Tetreault

The sentencing of popular Kuwaiti opposition leader Musallem al-Barrak on April 15 for insulting the amir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is part of a pattern of deteriorating civil liberties in Kuwait. Although the roots of the current conflict can be traced back to a 2006 social movement whose aim was to change the election […]

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Apr 29, 2013

Chuck Hagel in Egypt’s Economic Chaos

By Zeinab Abul-Magd

In his civilian black suit and blue tie, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel landed in Egypt last week saluted by numerous military officials in uniform. After talking to his Egyptian counterpart, General Abd Al-Fattah al-Sisi, Hagel met with President Mohammed Morsi.  In a short visit of only a few hours, Hagel commended the “responsible” […]

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Apr 29, 2013

Top News: Egypt Presidency, Judiciary Draw Closer on Proposed Legislation

By Egypt Source

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has told Egypt’s top judges that he would personally adopt their proposals for a new judicial authority law in hopes of containing mounting tension between Egypt’s Islamist forces and the judiciary.   GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Morsi’s office ‘surprised’ at claims it restricts media access The office of Egypt’s president has expressed its […]

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Apr 26, 2013

Aboul Fotouh: One Man Fits All

By Fady Salah

On the eve of Mubarak’s departure, Al-Jazeera : “The army should form a new ‘patriotic’ government led by a ‘patriotic’ figure, be it Omar Suleiman or Ahmed Shafiq or any other ‘patriotic’ figure to lead the transitional period.” said Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, then a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).

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Apr 26, 2013

Top News: Rights Groups Denounce Government NGO Draft Law

By Egypt Source

 The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies denounced a draft law prepared by the country’s Islamist government to grant licenses and monitor the funding for non-governmental groups, describing it as continuation of the former regime’s policy which sought to “besiege” civil society.    GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Replacing PM Qandil is essential: Strong Egypt Party The […]

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