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This Week in Egypt – March 22, 2013

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Apr 29, 2025

Dispatch from the UN Blue Line: Israel’s ‘systematic destruction’ in Lebanon

If Hezbollah refuses to disarm, Israel would almost certainly escalate its attacks possibly to the extent of resuming the war in Lebanon.

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This Week in Egypt – March 22, 2013

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Apr 30, 2025

From Tripoli to Tehran: Lessons from Libya in US-Iran nuclear talks

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Yaseen Rashed

Twenty-one years later, the nuclear disarmament of Libya serves as a model for the United States in current nuclear negotiations with Iran.

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This Week in Egypt – March 22, 2013

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Apr 25, 2025

Will Pope Francis’s Middle East legacy endure?

By
Karim Mezran

The late Pope’s final address on Easter Sunday was a capstone in a track record of advocacy for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.

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Mar 22, 2013

This Week in Egypt – March 22, 2013

By Nancy Messieh

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos, and more.

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Mar 22, 2013

Voting Patterns in Egypt: Heading Toward a Competitive Political Environment

By Hannah Grigg

The Rand Corporation launched a new report today, ‘Voting Patterns in Post-Mubarak Egypt,’ with an event featuring report author Jeffrey Martini and commentary from Michele Dunne of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and Samer Shehata of Georgetown University. Using data from four post-Mubarak elections, the report gives a better understanding […]

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Mar 22, 2013

Off the Egyptian Press: A View on Women’s Rights

By Andrew Ver Steegh

The Muslim Brotherhood’s statement last week on the draft of a document produced by the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and the slapping of a female activist protesting on Egyptian Woman’s Day in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters, have once again drawn attention to issues surrounding women’s rights in Egypt.  Several commentators […]

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Mar 22, 2013

Top News: Activists, Brotherhood Youth Scuffle in Moqattam

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said it would defend its headquarters against protesters if necessary, raising the possibility of a confrontation at a demonstration planned in Cairo on Friday.  

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Mar 21, 2013

National Partnership is Our Last Refuge, Not the Army

By Amr Hamzawy

Calls are growing, both on the streets and in the media, for the Egyptian army to return to the political arena, with some seeing the military as Egypt’s last refuge against chaos and collapse. Rather than demand for the return of military rule, I call on all secular parties to look for “democratic” solutions to […]

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Mar 21, 2013

Top News: Muslim Brotherhood Officially Registered as NGO

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s largest Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has been officially registered as a non-governmental organization by the ministry of social security. The announcement of the group’s status came shortly after the State Commissioners Board recommended the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) reject the Brotherhood’s longstanding appeal against a 1954 decision by the then-ruling Revolutionary Command Council declaring the […]

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Mar 21, 2013

A Thawing of Libyan Politics?

By Karim Mezran and Eric Knecht

Recent developments in Libya suggest an opening in the country’s otherwise deadlocked political process, increasing the likelihood of resolving several key issues holding back the country’s transition. The Muslim Brotherhood, led by Mohamed Sawan, and the National Forces Alliance (NFA), led by Mahmoud Jibril, met on March 14 for what appears to be the start […]

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Mar 20, 2013

US Aid to Egypt: The Start of a Serious Conversation

By John D. Lawrence

The recent Egypt debate in the US Senate could easily lead you to two separate, contradictory, and equally correct conclusions.  The first, more charitable than the next, would say that we have the beginning of a substantive political debate over aid to Egypt and overall US-Egyptian relations which that should be good for both countries.  […]

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Mar 20, 2013

Looking across Sinai: Israel’s View of Egypt

By Zack Gold

President Barack Obama arrived in Israel this morning. During the many hours he will spend with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other political and military leaders, items at the top of the discussion agenda include the Syrian civil war, the Iranian nuclear program, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, another focus is likely to be […]

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Mar 20, 2013

Top News: Egypt Sees IMF Deal, First Tranche by End-June – Report

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s government expects to sign a deal with the International Monetary Fund by the end of June and to have received the first tranche of a $4.8 billion (3.1 billion pounds) loan by then, the planning minister told Al-Ahram on Tuesday.

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