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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.

MENASource

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 […]

MENASource

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. 

MENASource

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.

MENASource

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. 

MENASource

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 […]

MENASource

Oct 30, 2012

Unofficial English Translation of Egypt’s Draft Constitution

By EgyptSource

English translation of Egypt’s draft constitution, provided by Democracy Reporting International. Translated from the original Arabic draft provided here. Available as a PDF download below. Download the PDF 

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Oct 30, 2012

New Salafi Party Signals Leftist Trend in Islamist Economics

By Mara Revkin

The ideological spectrum of Egypt’s Islamist scene is most often broken down in degrees of religious conservatism and relative commitment to Islamic law. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) occupies the middle-ground, flanked on the left by the moderate Wasat Party and revolutionary-oriented Islamists including former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and […]

MENASource

Oct 29, 2012

Top News: Constituent Assembly Will Be Reshaped If It Doesn’t Draft Constitution As Scheduled

By Egypt Source

President Mohamed Morsi said that he will reshape the Constituent Assembly (CA) if it did not draft the constitution within six months of its formation, expressing hope that the CA should finalize the constitution with a national consensus. 

MENASource

Oct 29, 2012

Photo Essay: Security in the Sinai

By Mosaab Elshamy

Army checkpoints on the road to Sinai are almost an indication of a region at war. The vast peninsula bordering Egypt with Gaza and Israel rose to the forefront of the new Egyptian government’s troubles after an army checkpoint was attacked by unknown militants last Ramadan, killing 16 soldiers. This was not the first attack […]

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