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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. 

MENASource

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

MENASource

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 […]

MENASource

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. 

MENASource

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 […]

MENASource

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

MENASource

Jan 4, 2013

The National Council for Human Rights, Lacking Human Rights Defenders

By Ragab Saad

When the Shura Council appointed new members to the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), the process revealed an obvious political bias in the formation. The NCHR, tasked with defending human rights and placing pressure on state authorities to improve human rights conditions, should naturally include as many human rights defenders as possible. Instead, its […]

MENASource

Jan 3, 2013

Top News: Brotherhood party inclined to run in elections without alliances

By Egypt Source

A source within the Muslim Brotherhood, speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm on condition of anonymity, said that the majority of members of the group’s Guidance Bureau are inclined to run in the next parliamentary elections without allying with other forces, especially since other Islamist forces have already initiated alliances.  GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Brotherhood party inclined to […]

MENASource

Jan 3, 2013

Syria 2013: Will The Poison Pill of Sectarianism Work?

By Frederic C. Hof

At the dawn of the New Year President Bashar al-Assad and his regime remain committed to pursuing a corrosively destructive sectarian survival strategy, one enjoying a critical assist from an increasingly radicalized and politically directionless armed opposition.  Left to their own devices—as both the West and Russia seemed inclined to leave them—the regime and its armed […]

Syria

MENASource

Jan 2, 2013

Will the Egyptian Pound Drop Below 7 to the US Dollar?

By Mohsin Khan and Svetlana Milbert

It is almost a truism that when a minister of finance or a central bank governor says that the currency will not be devalued, it is time to short the currency in question and bet on devaluation. By extension, the same holds when the country’s financial managers specify a floor for the exchange rate when […]