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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 […]

MENASource

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 […]

MENASource

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 […]

MENASource

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. […]

Libya

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Nov 8, 2012

Top News: Ministry Drafts Harsher Police Torture Penalties

By Egypt Source

The Justice Ministry has drafted new legislation that would impose harsher punishments for police torture. The bill stipulates that in deaths resulting from police violence, the perpetrators will be charged with premeditated murder.

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Nov 8, 2012

In Sinai, Land Ownership Decree Overshadowed by Volatile Conditions

By Dalia Rabie

The decision to allow Sinai’s residents to own land in the peninsula was followed, and overshadowed, by a turbulent week of attacks on police forces, which left three policemen dead and one critically injured. At the end of October, Prime Minister Hesham Qandil announced that 80,000 acres will be allocated for agriculture and land reclamation […]

MENASource

Nov 8, 2012

Arming Syria’s Rebels: The Strategic and Humanitarian Imperative

By Alex Simon

As President Obama prepares to embark on his second term, Syria’s civil war looms as perhaps his most urgent foreign policy challenge. With the death toll climbing upwards of 35,000 and the number of refugees approaching 400,000, the Obama Administration has thrown its weight behind the “Seif Plan,” a political initiative taking place this week […]

Syria

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Nov 7, 2012

Why the United States Should Not Count on Algerian Help in Mali

By Karim Mezran and Sarah Wade

Algeria is making headlines for the first time since its bloody civil war thanks to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit in late October. Secretary Clinton visited Algiers in part to solicit its support for a multilateral military intervention in Mali. Algeria has so far been unwilling to take a leadership role in addressing the […]

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