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Top News: US to Give Egypt US$190 mn, Need for Consensus for IMF Deal

By Egypt Source

President Mohamed Morsi met with US Secretary of State John Kerry at Ettehadiya Palace in Cairo Sunday. The American official said the US would give Egypt US$190 million to support the government’s budget, according to Reuters.  GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Opposition groups in Egypt’s Mahalla to launch ‘popular parliament’ Opposition groups in Mahalla, an industrial city […]

Egypt’s Elections: Practiced, But Still Imperfect

By Sarah Grebowski

Egypt’s parliamentary elections in 2012- the first in the wake of Egypt’s democratic uprising- were understandably messy. They were held on a condensed timeline, under intense political pressure and using an untested electoral system.  Members of the High Elections Commission (HEC) were clearly improvising the electoral timeline as the process was unfolding.  The allocation of […]

This Week in Egypt – March 2, 2013

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

Top News: NSF Leaders Refuse to Meet Kerry in Protest against US Pro-Morsi Stance

By Egypt Source

Hamdeen Sabbahi and Mohamed ElBaradei of the National Salvation Front (NSF) will not meet US Secretary of State John Kerry during his visit to Egypt, said Heba Yassin of the Popular Current Party.

The United States Hasn’t Helped Egypt’s Liberals Nearly Enough

By Tarek Radwan

US President Barack Obama stood at a White House podium, echoing the pride of the Egyptian people’s call for freedom in a speech on Feb. 11, 2011, the same day that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak finally relinquished power. In his remarks, Obama told the world, "The United States will continue to be a friend […]

Egyptian Citizen Journalists Nominated for Reporters Without Borders Netizen of the Year Award

By Nancy Messieh

In 2011, as state TV broadcast images of a sunset over the Nile and empty bridges just a stone’s throw from an ongoing battle in Tahrir Square, independent media took it upon itself to tell the real story. Alongside well-established TV channels and newspapers, a new player emerged in an attempt to document the Egyptian […]

Maged Zaher: Building poetry between Egypt and the US [Faces of Egypt]

By M. Lynx Qualey

“I dream of writing a dual language poem,” Maged Zaher says. “But it needs to be for a reason – it can’t be just a gimmick.” The Egyptian poet, who published his first collection just a few years ago, has been attracting wider attention in English-language circles since the release of his third book, Thank […]

Top News: Brotherhood mulls Cabinet shuffle, NSF rejects US pressure to run in elections

By Egypt Source

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau discussed a proposal calling for a mandatory Cabinet shuffle ahead of upcoming parliamentary polls as a way to ensure the integrity of the electoral process in a meeting Wednesday.