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Jan 16, 2013

My Enemy is Injustice – A Résumé of Limited Revolutionary Credentials

By Wael Eskandar

Like all Egyptians I was disenchanted by both opposition and ruler. I never queued up to vote and never joined a party. I was nothing more than an Egyptian, degraded as that may be. I have no tolerance for extremism and that is why I am appalled by the continued efforts of a patriarchal society […]

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Jan 16, 2013

Top News: Eight parties form cross-ideological coalition for coming parliamentary elections

By Egypt Source

Eight opposition political parties and prominent figures have formed an alliance to contest the upcoming House of Representatives elections.

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Jan 15, 2013

The Growing Pains of Salafi Politics

By Jayson Casper

The Salafi political movement experienced massive transition in the past two weeks, enduring splits, recriminations, and leadership changes. Having long foresworn the political process, it is right and natural for growing pains to characterize their apparent embrace of democracy. Taking stock, three observations describe their current standing. The process is transparent, but is the result […]

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Jan 15, 2013

Top News: Brotherhood blames Mubarak corruption for train disaster; NSF condemns govt

By Egypt Source

Nineteen Central Security Forces conscripts were killed and 120 injured when a train carriage derailed minutes before midnight on Monday in the town of Badrashin in Giza, the transport ministry said on Tuesday morning.  

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Jan 14, 2013

Syria: Is It Too Late?

By Frederic C. Hof

Syria is dying. Bashar al-Assad has made it clear that the price of his removal is the death of the nation. A growing extremist minority in the armed opposition has made it clear that a Syria of citizenship and civil society is, in its view, an abomination to be killed. And those in the middle […]

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Jan 14, 2013

Article 198: “Crimes that Harm the Armed Forces”

By Mai El Sadany

When stressing the merits of Egypt’s new draft constitution and the rights it would guarantee the Egyptian people, a December 21st presidency-approved press release noted that Article 198 of the draft prohibited military trials for civilians. Just weeks after the document’s approval, civilian journalist and blogger Muhamed Sabry was arrested in Sinai for filming in […]

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Jan 14, 2013

Top News: Egypt’s Legal Experts Await More Evidence on Mubarak’s Retrial

By Egypt Source

The cassation court’s order on Sunday to retry ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister Habib al-Adly has been received differently by legal experts regarding whether or not the re-trial could include new evidence and possibly new defendants.

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Jan 11, 2013

Reading into Cairo’s Cacophony of Newspapers

By Miriam Berger

“Egyptians read newspapers like they smoke cigarettes,” Ahmed, 57, a newspaper seller on Tala’at Harb Street off of Tahrir square told me—while smoking a cigarette. It is true that in today’s multimedia age print papers have undeniably lost their past hegemony; by all accounts, television is now the alpha medium in Egypt. But since the […]

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Jan 11, 2013

Top News: PM Forms Committee to Prepare and Study Draft Laws

By Egypt Source

Prime Minister Hesham Qandil has moved to form a High Committee for Legislative Affairs that would prepare and study draft laws, presidential decrees and the prime minister’s resolutions.

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Jan 11, 2013

Morsi’s Dilemma: Political Ambitions Versus Economic Pragmatism

By Mustansir Barma

Egypt’s January 6 partial Cabinet reshuffle was commissioned by President Mohamed Morsi in a bid to address the country’s ongoing economic woes. Double digit unemployment, high inflation, dwindling foreign reserves, and a sliding currency are among the long list of macroeconomic challenges that Prime Minister Hesham Qandil’s Cabinet has to tackle while keeping in check […]