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Jan 9, 2013

Top News: Three Civilians Facing Military Trials Today

By Egypt Source

Al-Galaa Military Court in Ismailia will hear the cases of three civilians. 

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Jan 9, 2013

NGO Trial: Another Day in the Cage

By Jonathan Moremi

Tomorrow Egypt will see another court session in what has become widely known as the NGO trial. In December 2011, eight months after Hosni Mubarak was toppled and just days after the first free parliamentary election phase began, Egyptian police raided the Cairo offices of 10 non-governmental organizations (NGO) that were working in Egypt, monitoring […]

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Jan 9, 2013

Libya’s Fractious New Politics

By Karim Mezran and Eric Knecht

Politics—defined here as the conflict of competing factions for power—did not meaningfully exist under the former Gaddafi regime. For some, the fact that they exist now, and in a rather lively fashion, is cause for optimism. However, the fact that they have become this fractious this fast, is cause for concern for many more. In […]

Libya

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Jan 8, 2013

Do Salafi Splits Signal Weakness or a Different Kind of Strength?

By Jayson Casper

The Nour Party, the political flagship of Egypt’s burgeoning Salafi movement, is in full damage control over scores of member defections to the new Watan Party. This is appropriate, as the damage is substantial. But Yasser al-Borhami, founder of the Salafi Call of which Nour is the political arm, said resignations from the party equal […]

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Jan 8, 2013

Top News: Ministry announces governor reshuffle; Islamists to gain eight posts

By Egypt Source

Eight new governors are to be appointed in Greater Cairo, Qena, Sharqiya, Monufiya, Aswan and the New Valley, said sources from the Local Development Ministry. 

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Jan 8, 2013

Forming a Syrian Opposition Government: The Time is Now

By Frederic C. Hof

The Syrian Opposition Council (SOC) formed in November 2012 faces no shortage of dire challenges as it tries to organize itself and give desperately needed political leadership to a heterogeneous hodgepodge of armed and unarmed opponents of the dying yet lethally venomous regime of Bashar al-Assad.  How to uphold the primacy of citizenship in an […]

Syria

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Jan 7, 2013

A Closer Look at Egypt’s Shura Council and its First Week with Legislative Power

By Nancy Messieh

With legislative power now officially in the hands of the Shura Council, or the Upper House of Parliament, and 90 new members appointed to the state body, several pressing issues have come to the forefront of the political landscape. As Judge and EgyptSource contributor Yussef Auf points out, the Shura Council was elected with a […]

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Jan 7, 2013

Top News: Ten New Ministers Take Oath in Cabinet Reshuffle

By Egypt Source

Ten new ministers were sworn in before President Mohamed Morsi Sunday, and four of them are known to be Muslim Brotherhood members. 

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Jan 4, 2013

The ‘New’ Shura Council / ‘مجلس الشورى ‘الجديد

By Yussef Auf

How should we evaluate Egypt’s new constitution? This was the pressing question in Egypt in the period leading up to and during the constitutional referendum. In an attempt to defend the new constitution, some have resorted to the argument that the final draft is acceptable in its entirety and that, when looking at the constitution […]

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Jan 4, 2013

Top News: Cabinet races to finalize parliamentary elections law

By Egypt Source

The Cabinet is racing time to pass the draft law on parliamentary elections.  Hamdeen Sabbahi’s Popular Current Party said the bill should not be passed before consensus is reached between political forces. However