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Jul 27, 2012

Top News: Egypt PM postpones cabinet announcement ‘for now’

By Tarek Radwan

In a statement issued on Friday afternoon, only 24 hours after newly-appointed Prime Minister Hisham Qandil stated that a new cabinet will be finalized on Friday and officially announced on Saturday, the office of Egypt’s prime minister said that the final announcement of the new cabinet will be postponed as consultations on the awaited selections […]

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Jul 26, 2012

An Interview with Political Activist Noor Nour [Faces of Egypt]

By Bahaa Hashem

No stranger to the world of Egyptian politics, Noor Nour has never strayed far from the country’s political controversies, all of which existed long before January 25, 2011. Today, he is a member of the No to Military Trials for Civilians movement, a prominent political activist, as well as a very active Twitter user with well over 56,000 followers. He graduated […]

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Jul 26, 2012

Top News: SCAF Holds Urgent Meeting

By Tarek Radwan

SCAF is currently holding an urgent meeting to discuss the country’s latest developments according to Ahram and Al Masry Al Youm. The meeting came as a surprise to many activists who said that they thought that SCAF’s role in Egyptian politics was over when they handed in authority to President-Elect Mohamed Morsy. 

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Jul 26, 2012

The People’s Revolution: A Struggle of Labels Between 1952 and 2011 / من يكسب صراع “الشرعية” بين ثورتي الجيش والشعب؟

By Haitham Tabei

It would seem that the struggle for power and legitimacy between the political forces, the revolutionary youth movements and the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) in Egypt has shifted from the squares and streets of the capital city, to events in history. The conflict has multiplied, moving from an attempt not only to control […]

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Jul 25, 2012

Top News: Kandil: SCAF Will Choose New Defense Minister

By Tarek Radwan

The new defense minister will be nominated by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, newly-appointed Prime Minister Hesham Qandil told privately-owned satellite channel CBC. Qandil, a former irrigation minister, called the SCAF’s role in the revolution patriotic. 

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Jul 24, 2012

Appointment of Hesham Kandil as Egypt’s Prime Minster Met with Mixed Reactions

By Nancy Messieh

One of the most common initial reactions to the appointment of Hesham Kandil as Egypt’s first Prime Minister following the election of President Mohamed Morsi has been to ask who he is. While relatively unknown to the general public, Kandil has already distinguished himself as the youngest Prime Minister to date. He is no stranger to […]

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Jul 24, 2012

Top News: Irrigation Minister Hesham Mohamed Kandil is Egypt’s New Prime Minister

By Tarek Radwan

Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hesham Mohamed Qandil is Egypt’s new prime minister, said the official Facebook page of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party Tuesday. Qandil was a senior bureaucrat in the ministry until he was appointed minister in July last year when former Prime Minister Essam Sharaf’s reshuffled the cabinet. 

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Jul 24, 2012

Negotiating with Egypt’s Military Industrial Complex

By Mehrunisa Qayyum

Saying Egypt’s military is large and influential is pretty much like saying “It is what it is.” This type of complacency has survived because the military tends to assume an influential role in many large powerful countries boasting a military-industrial complex, such as Turkey, China, and even the United States.    Egypt has lived through […]

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Jul 23, 2012

Top News: Hamas: Egypt Delegation to Visit Gaza, West Bank to Discuss Reconciliation

By Tarek Radwan

Egypt intends to send two delegations to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to discuss Palestinian reconciliation, Hamas political bureau member Mahmoud al-Zahar said Sunday. Zahar told Palestinian news agency Maan News that the move comes in response to a suggestion made by Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal during his recent meeting with Egyptian President […]

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Jul 20, 2012

Politics Has Destroyed the State of Law in Egypt / السياسة تهدم دولة القانون في مصر

By Haitham Tabei

Egypt is caught in the midst of a tense standoff between two factions – with politics on one side, and the law on the other. The struggle is being played out in the legislative space, as legal experts and politicians attempt to interpret the courts’ decisions and the provisions of the law. Skirmishes have included […]