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Jun 22, 2012

Top News: Egyptians Pack Tahrir to Slam Military ‘Coup’

By Tarek Radwan

Thousands have packed Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square to denounce a power grab by the ruling military, as the nation nervously awaited the results of the first post-Mubarak presidential election. Yet Egypt’s ruling military warned it would "deal firmly" with any attempt to harm the public interest, and blamed political divisions on the release of unofficial […]

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Jun 21, 2012

Top News: Election Results Postponed Until Sunday

By Tarek Radwan

The final results of the presidential runoff will be announced on Sunday, said Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) Secretary General Hatem Bagato. “There are nationwide vote-counting errors and after the appeals are considered we will recount the votes, and then the final result will be announced on Sunday," Bagato said in a phone call to media […]

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Jun 21, 2012

Will Shafik Go Down Without a Fight?

By Mara Revkin

When Egyptians asked for genuinely competitive elections, the current stalemate between two candidates each claiming victory was certainly not what they had in mind. The Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission (SPEC) has delayed the announcement of final results until June 23 at the earliest, to allow time for reviewing the hundreds of allegations of fraud that […]

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Jun 21, 2012

Will Egypt’s Transition Get a Second Chance?

By Sarah Adel Henry

What do Egypt’s transition and a lousy orchestra have in common? When the music is a mess, the conductor – or rather the SCAF – starts over “from the top.” After a year and a half of a messy transition that is going nowhere fast, Egyptians were stunned by two Supreme Constitutional Court rulings that […]

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Jun 20, 2012

House Hearing Testimony on Egypt

By Michele Dunne

Testifying today as part of a US House of Representatives Middle East Subcommittee panel on Egypt will be quite challenging in view of the breakneck pace of events.  Today a coalition of judges who set out to do a parallel count announced that they agreed with the Muslim Brotherhood that Morsy won by about 900,000 […]

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Jun 20, 2012

Top News: Amidst Flurry of Runoff Appeals, Independent Judges Declare Victory for Morsi

By Mara Revkin

A coalition of independent judges in Egypt said on Wednesday that the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohammed Mursi has won the presidential election, beating former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, according to their tally.

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Jun 19, 2012

The Political Pathology of the Egyptian State

By Ziad Abdel Tawab

Egyptians can only hope that the events of the past week represent a temporary setback in the democratic transition, rather than an irreversible regression to authoritarianism – marking the end of hope and the start of a new era of despair and political pathology. Sadly, 18 months of constant struggle for democracy and rights in […]

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Jun 19, 2012

Top News: US Threatens to Review Ties with Egyptian Military

By Tarek Radwan

The United States urged Egypt’s military on Monday to move swiftly on plans to transfer full power to an elected civilian government and suggested failure to do so would prompt a review of U.S. ties, which includes billions of dollars in military and civilian aid. Both the State Department and the Pentagon – which oversees […]

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Jun 19, 2012

Egypt: To Have or Not to Have an IMF Program?

By Mohsin Khan and Svetlana Milbert

Over this past weekend Egypt held presidential election runoffs with official results due on Thursday, June 21. But with more than 95 percent of votes counted, the Muslim Brotherhood claims their candidate Mohamed Morsy is the winner.  In the meanwhile, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) issued a constitutional annex to its March […]

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Jun 18, 2012

Egypt’s State of Emergency Lives on Despite Law’s Expiration

By Salem Mostafa Kamel

The SCAF’s decision to issue a new Constitutional Declaration on June 17 confirms what human rights activists have suspected all along: The SCAF scored political points by allowing the Emergency Law to expire as scheduled on May 31, but has since been covertly building a legal foundation to justify martial law and subject citizens to […]