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Feb 27, 2013

Top News: Morsi Opens ‘National Dialogue’ in Run-Up to Parliamentary Polls

By Egypt Source

President Mohamed Morsi on Tuesday evening launched the first session of his ‘national dialogue‘ initiative with representatives of political parties and groups to discuss guarantees for free and fair parliamentary elections slated for April. GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Nour Party to demand amendments to electoral law: Spokesman Ashraf Thabet, a spokesman for the Salafist Nour Party, […]

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Feb 26, 2013

Live Updates: Egypt’s National Dialogue Aired Live for the First Time

By Egypt Source

Live updates of Egypt’s national dialogue

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Feb 26, 2013

Detention of Minors: A New Wave of Brutality

By Amira Mikhail

A new era of brutality has emerged in Egypt where the targeting of children has become far too frequent. Ahmed Moselhy, a lawyer in the Egyptian Coalition for Child Rights (ECCR), estimates that at least 7,415 minors were arrested in the past year in Alexandria and Cairo alone. Since January 25, 2013, with the most […]

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Feb 26, 2013

Top News: NSF Rejects Morsi’s Call to Discuss Transparent Elections Guarantees, Announces Election Boycott

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s presidency is planning to hold a national dialogue meeting on Tuesday with a number of political groups to discuss transparency of the upcoming parliamentary elections. Around 60 public figures, among them National Salvation Front members, have called on political parties and movements to announce a collective boycott of the upcoming parliamentary elections. GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION […]

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Feb 25, 2013

Top News: Civil Disobedience Spreads to Delta

By Egypt Source

The Cabinet’s spokesperson said “rumors” spread in the media and on social networking sites about a civil disobedience campaign are not true, contending that certain people are trying to force government employees to take to the streets, or else they will harm them. Meanwhile, protesters enter into civil disobedience in the Nile Delta city of […]

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Feb 23, 2013

This Week in Egypt – February 23, 2013

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos and more. The Coming Parliament: A New Crisis Looking forward to the parliamentary elections, and at the Shura Council’s decision to pass the electoral law, Yussef Auf reminds EgyptSource readers that we have to look back at the constitution […]

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Feb 22, 2013

Off the Egyptian Press: Brotherhood and Salafist Tensions

By Andrew Ver Steegh

Political news from Egypt over the past week has been dominated by reports of tensions between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist Nour Party (centered around the dismissal of presidential advisor Khalid Alam El Din), as well as by news of meetings between members of the leadership of the Freedom and Justice party and the […]

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Feb 22, 2013

The Coming Parliament: A New Crisis

By Yussef Auf

In the coming months, Egypt has a date with a new constitutional crisis, and it should come as no surprise that the source of this crisis is the new Egyptian constitution, full as it is with ambiguities and flaws. The flaw this time is found in the text of Article 177 of the constitution which […]

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Feb 22, 2013

Top News: Parliamentary Elections Set for April 28

By Egypt Source

Elections for Egypt’s lower house of parliament, the House of Representatives, will begin in April and take place over four stages with the House finally convening in July.

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Feb 22, 2013

Syria: From Objective to Strategy

By Frederic C. Hof

The objective of US policy for Syria should be a Syria fundamentally inclined to cooperate with the United States in the region and beyond, as discussed in a previous commentary. Achieving this objective would involve seven conditions: elimination of the Assad regime; its replacement by a non-sectarian government of citizenship and civil society, one governing […]

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