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Nov 2, 2012

Top News: Morsi Delegates Some Emergency Powers to Qandil

By Egypt Source

President Mohamed Morsi on Tuesday delegated Prime Minister Hesham Qandil some powers granted by Emergency Law No.162 of 1958 concerning criminal sentencing, the ratification of court rulings and the assignment of judges to examine complaints.

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Nov 2, 2012

Son of the Blind Sheikh Rejects al-Qaeda’s Call to Kidnap Foreigners on his Father’s Behalf

By Jayson Casper

  Last week Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, invited Muslims to kidnap Western hostages to secure the release of the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman. This week, the sheikh’s son invited me to dinner. Abdullah Omar Abdel Rahman believes his father was the victim of an Egyptian-American conspiracy to silence one of then-President Mubarak’s […]

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Nov 1, 2012

NGO Initiative Aims to Criminalize Domestic Violence in Egypt (Video)

By Nancy Messieh

As concerns over women’s rights in Egypt’s draft constitution continue to surface, a topic that often receives little, if no attention at all, is that of domestic violence. Documentary filmmaker Jenny Montasir has created a short 6 minute video which sheds light on how domestic violence is perceived in Egypt, while touching on women’s rights […]

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Nov 1, 2012

Top News: Carter Meets with Constituent Assembly Head

By Egypt Source

Former US president Jimmy Carter made a special visit to the Constituent Assembly’s headquarters in the Shura Council on Tuesday, where he met with the assembly head Hossam El-Gheriany.  

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Nov 1, 2012

Egypt’s IMF Loan Tests its Islamist Government’s Boundaries

By Farah Halime

In the first test of how Egypt’s Islamist government will reconcile religious beliefs with a modern economic framework, the country is attempting to convince voters a contentious loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund is Sharia-compliant.

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Oct 31, 2012

When Will Egypt Sign a Program with the IMF?

By Mohsin Khan and Svetlana Milbert

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team arrived in Egypt on October 30, 2012 to negotiate with the Egyptian government a long-awaited $4.8 billion-plus loan. The IMF team led, by Andreas Bauer, is now in Cairo to have technical discussions on Egypt’s economic reform program to determine if it can be supported with a 1-year Stand-by […]

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Oct 31, 2012

Top News: Ministry of Education and Al-Azhar to Discuss Education Reform

By Egypt Source

Al-Azhar and the Ministry of Education (MoE) have agreed to work together in order to reform the education system in Egypt. The reforms are to be implemented at the start of the next academic year. 

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Oct 31, 2012

What We Can Learn from Alber Saber’s Case

By Ahmed Naje

1.      Never Call the Police Alber Saber’s case may seem no different from other religious defamation trials that we have come to know about through the media. At the heart of it, however, this is not really a case about religious defamation, but rather is a personal attack during which religion happened to be defamed.

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Oct 30, 2012

Top News: Govt Scheme Aims to Increase Sinai Population Through Land Reclamation

By Egypt Source

The government has slated 80,000 feddans of land near Al Salam Canal in Sinai for auction, to be exclusively bid on by Sinai residents. Prime Minister Hesham Qandil announced the plan on Monday as part of government efforts to increase Sinai’s population to 3 million within five years. 

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Oct 30, 2012

The ‘Felool’ Rhetoric Must End

By Wael Eskandar

On October 19, in a march entitled, “Egypt for all Egyptians” one of the men leading the calls interrupted his own chant saying, “We heard that some Felool are joining this day, we declare that they are not welcome and have no place among us.” Felool is a term which was coined early on in […]