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Jul 17, 2012

Top News: Brawls in Egypt Court as Judges Meet on Constitution

By Tarek Radwan

Brawls broke out in an Egyptian courtroom as judges tried to debate rulings on Tuesday that could either bolster the country’s new Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, or undermine him in his power struggle with the military. Legal opinion is split on whether the Cairo administrative court will strike down Egypt’s constituent assembly, formed by an […]

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Jul 16, 2012

Public Opinion Plays Witness to Egypt’s Military Trials

By Nancy Messieh

When prison doors were flung open in January 2011, releasing both political prisoners and criminal convicts, it gave rise to what is possibly one of the most overused words in Egypt’s lexicon today: baltageya. Often translated as ‘thugs’, it is weighed down with far more connotations and negativity than the four letter English word affords […]

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Jul 16, 2012

Top News: Clinton Calls on SCAF to Return to National Security Duties

By Tarek Radwan

Following a close to 90-minute meeting with President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo this afternoon, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the time has come for the military to return to its national security duties and to allow Morsi to assume his full presidential authorities. Clinton spoke at a joint press conference with Egyptian […]

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Jul 13, 2012

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: Between a Present with Qatar and a Future with Libya

By Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

The results of the Libyan elections have come through. Contrary to the tide that saw a rise of Islamist parties across the region, the Islamists in Libya failed to garner a majority. Instead a secular party started by Mahmoud Jibril, a senior official in the Gaddafi government who joined the rebels early in the 2011 […]

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Jul 13, 2012

Top News: Thousands in Tahrir Protest Against HCC Ruling Rejecting Morsi’s Decree

By Tarek Radwan

Sheikh Mazhar Shaheen, the "revolutionary" imam  of Omar Makram mosque, has called on the judiciary not to "abort the revolution" by defying President Mohamed Morsi during his Friday prayer speech to thousands of protesters gathered on Tahrir Square in support of Morsi’s 8 July decree reinstating parliament. The "Friday of Endurance" demonstration was called for […]

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Jul 12, 2012

Top News: SCAF to Keep Civilians Away from Military Matters in Constitution

By Tarek Radwan

The Supreme Council of Armed Forces will dictate all laws in regards to the military in the new constitution, further leaving matters of the military outside of civilian control, according to the outcome of the System of Governance Committee of the Constituent Assembly meeting on Monday. 

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Jul 11, 2012

Egypt’s Struggle: Islamists Versus State Institutions, with Secularists on the Sidelines

By Michele Dunne

"Morsi has now said, ‘I am here,’" a secular businessman said, referring to President Mohammed Morsi’s bold–perhaps reckless—cancellation of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) decree that dissolved parliament shortly before his inauguration. In two days of conversations in Cairo since then, opinions were polarized on whether the move was legal and politically […]

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Jul 11, 2012

Top News: Brotherhood lawyer: Constitutional Court Ruling on People’s Assembly ‘Worthless’

By Tarek Radwan

Amid mounting tension between Egypt’s Islamist political forces and the judiciary, Muslim Brotherhood lawyer Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud described Tuesday’s ruling by Egypt’s High Constitutional Court (HCC), which overturned a presidential decree reinstating the People’s Assembly, as "worthless." "We have filed a lawsuit calling for the replacement of the presiding judges in the case, since it has […]

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Jul 11, 2012

It’s Not My Fight

By Wael Eskandar

Messages are flying around left and right, on the street, on television, on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere on the internet. Some support President Mohamed Morsi’s decision to reinstate parliament and some are against it. From a distance, I watch the arguments in favour and those against, as though I’m watching a rally in a tennis […]

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Jul 10, 2012

Egypt’s Islamist President Aims to Guarantee Powers Through Majority in Government

By Reem Abdellatif

When Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi announced on Sunday that he would issue a decree to reinstate parliament, his goal was not just to reel in his presidential authorities from the military, but to secure his campaign promises, according to sources close to the newly elected president. Like any president who belongs to a certain political party, […]