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Dec 8, 2012

Morsi’s Illusion of Compromise

By Nancy Messieh

Late on Saturday night, President Mohamed Morsi rescinded his controversial November decree, replacing it with a new one. Like its predecessor, the new constitutional decree is immune from judicial appeal. It states that if the constitutional draft does not pass, a new constituent assembly will be elected within three months, and will be given a six month […]

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Dec 8, 2012

Islamist Napoleonic Syndrome as a Barrier to Public Diplomacy in Egypt

By Ahmed Younis

In policy circles throughout the Arab world, the phrase ‘Public Diplomacy’ is used as an epithet; a foul phrase that describes massaging the imperial interests of the United States by assuaging the needs of the rich and ruining the children of the poor with sugared candy, rock music, porn and video games. The perception is […]

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Dec 7, 2012

Why did the Brotherhood Demonstrate at the Palace?

By Jayson Casper

Politics in Egypt has degenerated into the question: Who do you trust? A more critical question right now is: What was their plan? President Morsi addressed the nation late Thursday evening and tied Wednesday’s violence at the presidential palace to undefined ‘political parties’. If the vagary was intended to present the clashes between supporters and […]

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Dec 7, 2012

Michele Dunne on Protester Clashes in Cairo and President Mohamed Morsi’s Response

Appearing on PBS Newshour, Michele Dunne, Director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, broke down President Mohamed Morsi’s Thursday night speech, following violent clashes at the presdential palace which left at least 7 dead and over 450 wounded.  Commenting on the speech Dr. Dunne said: "He offered a very small crumb, I […]

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Dec 7, 2012

The Dublin Meeting and its Meaning for Syria

By Frederic C. Hof

Apparently sensing that the end game may be approaching in Syria, UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi went to Dublin to host a hastily arranged meeting between US Secretary of State Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. 

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Dec 7, 2012

Top News: Civil powers condemn Morsi’s speech, may boycott meeting

By Egypt Source

For live updates on protests around Egypt, click here. Despite the president’s attempts to calm the conflict, reactions to the speech by politicians and representatives of civilian groups have been broadly negative.

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Dec 7, 2012

When Legitimacy and Sharia Overlap / الشرعية و الشريعة و مسائل أخرى

By Yussef Auf

The Muslim Brotherhood called for significant demonstrations last Saturday in “support” of President Mohamed Morsi’s recent decisions of President Morsi. Setting aside the many other issues surrounding these demonstrations, what gives me the most pause is the banner under which his supporters marched: “Legitimacy and Sharia.” The religious terms of the demonstrations resonated deeply, and […]

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Dec 6, 2012

Morsi: Doomed to Repeat Mubarak’s Mistakes?

By Nancy Messieh

In a press conference addressing a room full of journalists, Vice President Mahmoud Makki used the expression "survival of the fittest" to describe the current state of Egypt’s political affairs. What the journalists listening to him didn’t know was that as Makki spoke, a group of pro-Morsi supporters had descended upon the anti-Morsi sit-in taking […]

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Dec 6, 2012

Top News: 6 dead, 450 injured in clashes at Egypt’s presidential palace

By Egypt Source

Clashes between supporters of President Mohamed Morsi and his opponents which started on Wednesday night have left six dead and 450 injured, according to the health ministry. Hospitals in the Heliopolis area continued to receive casualties of gunshots and rock throwing into the early hours of Thursday morning. 

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Dec 5, 2012

Morsi Comes up Short

By Tarek Radwan

Vice President Mahmoud Makki called for calm on Wednesday, offering the newest proposal from the Mohammed Morsi government in an effort to ease the ongoing political crisis in Egypt. At a press conference in Cairo, Makki issued an invitation to all opposition forces to discuss and revise the most controversial articles in the draft of […]