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Nov 15, 2012

Notes from an Egyptian Mujahid in Syria

By Mara Revkin

If there is such a thing as a stereotypical jihadist, Ahmed is not it. The 22-year-old Egyptian Salafi tweets prolifically from his iPad, quotes Martin Luther King, Jr., and works part-time for a successful alternative media start-up company. Like a lot of college students, Ahmed loves road trips. But unlike most Egyptians his age, Ahmed’s […]

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Nov 15, 2012

Top News: Egypt President Morsi says Israel Aggression in Gaza ‘Unacceptable’

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi rejected on Thursday what he called Israel’s aggression in Gaza and said he had spoken with US President Barack Obama about ways to bring it to a halt.

MENASource

Nov 15, 2012

Bolstering the Constitutional Declaration to Strengthen Transitional Governance in Libya

By Duncan Pickard

The August 2011 constitutional declaration of the National Transitional Council provides the current legal framework for the transitional government, but the document is woefully vague and leaves far too much discretion in the hands of those who hold power. Since an entirely new interim constitution might be political unfeasible or require too much time, the […]

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Nov 14, 2012

Egypt’s New Coptic Pope: Inheriting the Dilemmas of a Minority

By Haitham Tabei

In assuming his new position, Pope Tawadros II, Egypt’s new Coptic pope, faces significant challenges, both within the church and in the country as a whole. These include matters relating to church reform and management, as well as matters relating to the status of Egypt’s Copts, and their role within the state. He has already […]

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Nov 14, 2012

Rights Organizations Cry Foul After Exclusion from EU meeting

By Dalia Rabie

Twenty-one human rights organizations are claiming they were purposely excluded from an Egyptian-European Task Force meeting Tuesday, in what they see as the latest in a series of “hostile” practices towards human rights. In a joint statement, the organizations accused the Foreign Ministry of revoking their invitations to attend without providing an explanation, expressing concern […]

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Nov 14, 2012

Top News: Constituent Assembly Members Threaten Withdrawal

By Egypt Source

Conflicts broke out Tuesday during a meeting of secularists and liberals on the Constituent Assembly, as a number of members threatened to withdraw. 

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Nov 13, 2012

Top News: Constituent Assembly Finalizes 14 Articles, NGOs and Ministry of Defense Reject Draft

By Egypt Source

The draft constitution as it is currently written gives citizens “license to discipline” each other according to Amr Moussa. The former Arab League secretary general made the criticism at the Constituent Assembly’s Monday meeting, at which it approved 14 constitutional articles in the basic principles of state section and referred them to the drafting committee […]

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Nov 12, 2012

Egypt’s Draft: A Constitution of Conditionals

By Mai El Sadany

Talk to many policymakers and analysts in Washington and you will hear them praise the comprehensive and holistic nature of the latest version of Egypt’s draft constitution. Talk to an Egyptian or someone who has worked on the ground however and they will talk of a document that underhandedly deprives the people of their full […]

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Nov 9, 2012

Abanoub Emad: Eye Witness to the Horrors of Street Clashes From Behind the Lens of a Camera [Faces of Egypt]

By Sarah Naguib and Ramy Yaacoub

A note by the authors: When we first met Abanoub, he was still in college, studying journalism. One of our first conversations with him was about his frustrations with journalism in Egypt. Today, it remains a difficult profession to break into, and while many people write, very few young journalists are given an opportunity to make […]

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Nov 9, 2012

An Alternative Hypothesis on the Benghazi Events

By Karim Mezran

While US officials debated and politicized this past September’s Benghazi incident, Libyans were often having, and continue to have, a markedly different conversation about who is behind ongoing violence. Though rogue militias and Salafists remain key culprits, a potentially greater force is often seen as playing a lead role: elements of the former Qaddafi regime. […]

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