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Aug 17, 2012

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights Report: ‘Intellectual Terrorism and the Policy of Censorship’

By Nancy Messieh

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights released a 63 page report (Arabic) "Intellectual Terrorism and the Policy of Censorship", focusing on the state of press freedom in Egypt, beginning with the January 2011 uprising up until the present day. EOHR has outlined the repressive tactics that have been used against journalists in the country, whether […]

MENASource

Aug 17, 2012

Top News: Government Promises Change in State Media Content

By Egypt Source

The content of state media will change in the coming months, Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud told reporters Thursday evening. Leading media should be characterized by professionalism and provide different opinions, Abdel Maqsoud said, adding that those who do not adhere to professionalism, objectivity, neutrality and ethics would simply be dismissed.  GOVERNMENT Morsy promises not […]

MENASource

Aug 17, 2012

Amr El Salanekly: The Smartest Kid in the Room [Faces of Egypt]

By Soraya Morayef

At twenty-two, Amr El Salanekly has won the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative fellowship, co-founded a social incubator and an educational platform for underprivileged kids, turned down a job with Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank, and raised hundreds of thousands of Egyptian pounds for community projects in Egypt, while completing his bachelor’s degree at […]

MENASource

Aug 16, 2012

Top News: The Supreme Constitutional Court Rejects Mekki Proposal to Unify the Judicial Bodies

By Egypt Source

A judicial source at the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) rejected the idea of merging judicial bodies coupled with the abolition of the SCC, asserting that this is not permissible in any way and that each competent body considers the issues that fit its mandate. The source added that the SCC has the duty to interpret […]

MENASource

Aug 16, 2012

Review: Bradley Hope’s Last Days of the Pharaoh Paints a Human Picture of Mubarak

By Nancy Messieh

The first thought that comes to mind when reading Bradley Hope’s Last Days of the Pharaoh is that Hosni Mubarak is a human being. Over the past year and a half, this is a fact that has become all too easy to forget. We see him only as the tyrant, so full of arrogant pride […]

MENASource

Aug 15, 2012

Lagarde to Visit Egypt: Is an IMF Program in the Offing?

By Mohsin Khan

The announcement on August 15 that IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde will visit Cairo on August 22 has created considerable speculation that an IMF program will be implemented soon.

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 15, 2012

Top News: Mekki Finalizing Judicial Independence Law

By Egypt Source

Minister of Justice Ahmed Mekki will transfer authority over the Judicial Inspection Directorate from the Ministry of Justice to the Supreme Council of the Judiciary (SCJ), effectively ending one of the main ways the executive branch controlled the judiciary. 

MENASource

Aug 15, 2012

Morsi’s Check, Not a Checkmate

By Tarek Radwan

President Mohamed Morsi delivered a tremendously game-changing blow to the military with the dismissal of defense minister and head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi along with his chief of staff Sami Anan. The broad reshuffle of Egypt’s security personnel and the SCAF set activists, think-tanks, and egyptophiles ablaze […]

MENASource

Aug 14, 2012

Tantawi and Anan’s Appearance at the Presidential Palace Signals their Acceptance of a Forced Retirement

By Nancy Messieh

Most signs pointed towards former Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi and former Chief of Staff Sami Anan quietly accepting their dismissal at the hands of President Mohamed Morsi on Monday. Their acquiescence is now confirmed after appearing at the presidential palace to receive medals of honor, presented to them by Morsi himself.

MENASource

Aug 14, 2012

Libya: The Election of Magarief and National Reconciliation

By Karim Mezran

The election of Mohammed Magarief as president of Libya’s General National Congress on August 10 is a sign of the Libyan people’s search for unity and will to continue on the path toward democratization. Despite increasing security problems and the many centrifugal pressures present in the Libyan polity, the Congress managed to elect a president […]

Libya