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Oct 1, 2012

Top News: Turkish loan to Egypt, Stance on Syria, Palestine

By Egypt Source

President Mohamed Morsy and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a US$1 billion loan Sunday, half of the aid package Ankara promised Cairo earlier this month, Egypt’s state news agency reported.

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Sep 28, 2012

Moderates and Liberals Double-down on the Constitution

By Tarek Radwan

After President Mohammed Morsi took the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) out of the political equation, he and the Islamist political forces assumed the dominant role in Egyptian politics. They also became the next logical target for secular revolutionaries, leftists and liberals alike. Given that Egypt’s transitional timetable and upcoming parliamentary elections – […]

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Sep 28, 2012

Top News: Egypt’s Constitution Party Seeks Prosecution for ‘Infidel’ Fatwa by Islamist Sheikhs

By Egypt Source

The Constitution Party filed a report on Thursday with supreme state security prosecutors regarding Salafist preacher Wagdy Ghoneim, and Islamist sheikh and Constituent Assembly member Mohamed El-Athry, for the defamation and insulting of party members. 

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Sep 27, 2012

CEWLA Finds Out What Women Want from Egypt’s Constitution [Video]

By Nancy Messieh

As the Constituent Assembly continues to make headway with the draft constitution, amid ongoing controversy, the Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance (CEWLA), a non-governmental organization focused on women’s rights released a video addressing what Egypt’s women are looking for in the new constitution. Speaking to a cross-section of women not only from Cairo, but […]

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Sep 27, 2012

Top News: Salafist Nour Party Head Expelled by Party’s Supreme Committee

By Egypt Source

In a major development in the ongoing crisis within Egypt’s Salafist Nour Party, the party’s supreme committee withdrew confidence from its leader Emad Abdel-Ghafour on Wednesday, expelling him from the party and appointing El-Sayid Mostafa Hussein Khalifa in his place. 

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Sep 26, 2012

Morsi’s UN Debut: Palestine, Syria, and Freedom of Speech [Video]

By Nancy Messieh

Appearing in his first televised interviews in both Egypt and the US, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative and speaking to the New York Times, President Mohamed Morsi gave a comprehensive precursor of what to expect from his speech before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. Sticking to that script throughout a speech in which […]

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Sep 26, 2012

Top News: Liberal Parties Meet to Push Islamists on Constituent Assembly

By Egypt Source

Political party leaders discussed Tuesday the possibility of coordinating their stances on the Constituent Assembly, accusing the Islamist majority of controlling the drafting of a new constitution. 

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Sep 26, 2012

Revisiting Egypt’s Competitiveness in a Globalized World Economy

By Hoda Youssef

With any mention of Egypt’s economic recovery, foreign direct investment (FDI) is often referred to as the saviour that will help the country recover from its near two-year hardship, by enabling stimulated growth and job creation. The 2011 revolution has brought to the forefront critical socioeconomic and financial challenges at a time when global financial […]

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Sep 26, 2012

Embassy Attacks Set the Stage for Moderation or Extremist Momentum

By Karim Mezran and Sarah Wade

The violence and protests taking place across the Middle East have largely been attributed to rage over the anti-Islamic film The Innocence of Muslims, but their impact on the transition and ongoing political power struggle between moderates and extremists may hold broader implications for Western policy. The embassy attacks in Libya and Tunisia are causing […]

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Sep 25, 2012

EIPR to Bring Egypt’s ‘Virginity Tests’ Case to the African Commission

By Nancy Messieh

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) and INTERIGHTS have launched a case against Egypt in regard to the now infamously known ‘Virgnity Tests’ case in which Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim accused military personnel of sexual abuse during her detention in military prison. The case, which is being brought before the African Commission on Human […]