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Morsi: Doomed to Repeat Mubarak’s Mistakes?

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Sep 19, 2025

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Morsi: Doomed to Repeat Mubarak’s Mistakes?

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Sep 19, 2025

Snapback sanctions threaten to further derail Iran nuclear deal hopes

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Now would be the best time for the West to negotiate a deal with Iran—but snapback sanctions threaten a derailing into further confrontation.

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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 […]

MENASource

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. 

MENASource

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 […]

MENASource

Dec 5, 2012

NATO’s Reluctant Dance with the Middle East

By Richard LeBaron

The heavily-qualified December 4 decision by NATO to dispatch Patriot missile batteries to Turkey’s border with Syria reflects a pattern of reluctance by the Alliance to involve itself in the messy conflicts of the Middle East.

MENASource

Dec 5, 2012

Syria: Has the Bubble Burst?

By Frederic C. Hof

Reports that the Syrian regime is moving chemical weapons components for possible use against rebels, or pro-rebel populated areas, have provoked stern warnings from President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton.  For an administration that has consistently steered clear of military involvement in Syria’s civil war, the use of dirty weapons by the Assad regime […]

Syria

MENASource

Dec 5, 2012

Top News: Egypt’s VP offers amendments to disputed constitution

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s vice president said on Wednesday amendments to disputed articles of the draft constitution could be agreed with the opposition ahead of a Dec. 15 referendum and put in writing, and he called for dialogue with opponents to end the crisis. 

MENASource

Dec 5, 2012

Morsi’s Dilemma Solved: Why the Judges will not Boycott the Referendum

By Ahmed Aboul Enein

The Supreme Council of the Judiciary (SCJ), the State Council and the State Litigation Authority have all announced that judges will be overseeing the 15 December constitutional referendum. Conversely the national Judges’ Clubsaid that the country’s judges would not monitor the referendum unless President Mohamed Morsi rescinds his November 22 constitutional decree. Both decisions are […]

MENASource

Dec 4, 2012

Women’s Equality: No Longer a Part of Egypt’s Constitution

By Nahla Samaha

As of today, demonstrations continue across Egypt, both in support of and against the recently completed draft of the constitution. Demonstrations against the constitution have been fueled by fear that the brand of the newly emerged strains of conservative Islam would be imprinted on it. Nowhere is that more a matter of concern for some […]

MENASource

Dec 4, 2012

“Boycott” Elections Distill Kuwait’s Divisions

By Kristin Smith Diwan

On December 1 Kuwait held its second parliamentary election in ten months following the court-imposed dissolution of a strongly oppositional parliament last June.  Instead of the usual selection among Kuwait’s liberal nationalist, Islamist, tribal populist, and independent candidates, the choice this time was more stark:  vote or boycott?   In the months since October, when Kuwait’s […]

The Gulf

MENASource

Dec 4, 2012

The Constituent Assembly’s ‘Last’ Night / الليلة الأخيرة للجمعية التأسيسية

By Yussef Auf

The past few days Egypt has experienced are like no other in the country’s history. They have been so filled with developments, that even the keen observer is unable to make an assessment, and can only follow as the story unfolds, reading the news and analysis. If it is this difficult for them to follow […]

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