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Feb 11, 2013

Tunisia’s Assassination Echoes in Egypt

By Nancy Messieh

As Tunisia reels from the implications of the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid, once again events in the small Maghreb country are reverberating further east in Egypt. A video of the ultra-conservative cleric, Mahmoud Sha’aban posted on YouTube days before the assassination has since gone viral, leading to nationwide condemnation from all sides of the […]

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Feb 11, 2013

The Black Bloc, or a Salmon Swimming Upstream in a River of Chaos / البلاك بلوك أو سمك السالمون يسبح ضد التيار في نهر الفوضى

By Ahmed Naje

I was sitting in a café just 400 meters from Tahrir Square waiting for a friend who was attending one of his leftist political meetings. On the way to the cafe, I had watched demonstrators seize a police armored vehicle and drive it to the center of the square where they celebrated their spoils for […]

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Feb 11, 2013

Top News: US Ambassador – Egypt’s foreign reserves at critical low

By Egypt Source

Saying that "Egypt’s numbers paint a bleak picture," US Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson said that the country must focus on its citizens’ economic needs. 

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Feb 11, 2013

Egypt Iran Rapprochement? Not Yet.

By Adel Abdel Ghafar

Pictures of Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mohamed Morsi warmly embracing in Cairo have reverberated around the world. For some, the pictures were cause for worry, for others, a cause for celebration. After the 2011 Egyptian uprising, there have been continued efforts on the diplomatic front for rapprochement between the countries who severed relations more than […]

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Feb 8, 2013

The Egyptian Civilizational Model

By Yussef Auf

Among the many external and internal challenges facing Egyptian state and society, the issue of how to reclaim Egypt’s historical regional leadership is the most pressing. In my opinion, creating an ‘Egyptian civilizational model’ is the key ingredient to renewed regional influence.

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Feb 8, 2013

Top News: Marches head to Tahrir against Brotherhood rule

By Egypt Source

Hundreds marched from Mostafa Mahmoud mosque in the Cairo suburb of Mohandeseen to Tahrir Square in an anti-government demonstration. 

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Feb 7, 2013

The State of Excessive Police Violence Against Civilians

By Nahla Samaha

With state security reform a key demand of the January 25 Revolution, a vicious crackdown on protests, and the alleged targeting of activists, indicates that the uprising never reached the hallways of the Ministry of Interior.  A video of a man, stripped and beaten, and later intimidated into claiming that protesters had attacked him, has […]

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Feb 7, 2013

How Chokri Belaid’s Assassination Impacts the Tunisian Transition

By Eric Knecht

Once word spread of the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid, an outspoken critic of the Ennahda Islamist party, thousands of Tunisians took to the streets calling for the fall of the Ennahda-led government. Although the death of Belaid is the immediate cause of unrest, pressure has been mounting on the Islamist ruling party […]

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Feb 7, 2013

Censorship Encroaching, But Egypt’s World of Books Still Relatively Free

By M. Lynx Qualey

In Egypt, the issue of media censorship has leapt to center stage. Since last June, legal complaints have been filed against two dozen journalists, comedians, on-air psychologists, and TV presenters for “insulting the president.” According to the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, these cases, which can bring a three-year prison sentence, have reached a […]

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Feb 7, 2013

Top News: Egypt Opposition Leader Warns Over Death Edict

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s most prominent opposition leader criticized the Islamist government on Wednesday for its silence over a Muslim cleric’s edict calling for the death of opposition supporters.