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Jun 6, 2012

Top News: Supreme Court to Assess Disenfranchisement and Electoral Laws on June 14

By Tarek Radwan

Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court will begin hearing the Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission’s appeal regarding the Political Disenfranchisement Law on 14 June. If implemented, the law could result in the disqualification of Ahmed Shafik. The court will also hear an appeal by the Supreme Administrative Court challenging the constitutionality of the parliamentary elections law, which could […]

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Jun 6, 2012

Is Egypt’s Judiciary Leading the Counter-Revolution?

By Salem Mostafa Kamel and Mara Revkin

After waiting for more than a year and a half for the verdict in Hosni Mubarak’s trial, Egyptians are now frustrated with the outcome.  In a decision widely viewed as political—issued at a particularly volatile moment in the electoral process—Judge Ahmed Refaat sentenced the former president and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly to 25 years […]

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Jun 6, 2012

Egypt’s Run-off Scenarios: A Risk Assessment

By Merit Al-Sayed

As time runs out for the two contenders in the run-off round, the race is getting increasingly competitive and desperate. The Freedom and Justice Party’s candidate Mohamed Morsi and former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik are vying for the support of the 50 percent of voters who chose losing candidates in the first round. Shafik, eager […]

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Jun 6, 2012

Morsi Gambles on Victory Without Concessions

By Salem Mostafa Kamel

On June 1, liberal and leftist political forces released the final version of the "Document of the Pledge,” which they have presented to Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik in the hopes of obtaining commitments from the two candidates to advance the revolution’s objectives. Among the conditions included, the pledge would require the next president to: […]

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Jun 5, 2012

Top News: Shafik Accuses Brotherhood of Killing Protesters

By Tarek Radwan

Ahmed Shafiq on Monday evening speaking in a televised interview on the private channel CBC, sustained his attacks on the Muslim Brotherhood accusing them of sectarianism and divisiviness. Shafiq also accused the Brotherhood of participating in the killing of protesters in Tahrir Square during the 18-day uprising that led to the toppling of Mubarak. He […]

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Jun 4, 2012

Mohamed Morsi’s High-Wire Act

By Tarek Radwan

With the upcoming run-off election less than two weeks away, political forces in Egypt are scrambling to consolidate influence over what remains of the muddled political transition. Revolutionaries and secular liberals across Egypt have rejected both Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi and poster-boy-of-the-former-regime Ahmed Shafik as their future leaders, but they fear the resurgence of […]

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Jun 4, 2012

Top News: SCAF Expected to Issue Constitutional Declaration Before Run-Off

By Tarek Radwan

The SCAF is expected to issue a supplementary constitutional declaration clarifying the powers of the incoming president days before he is elected, according to Al-Shorouk newspaper.

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Jun 3, 2012

Political Verdict in Mubarak Trial Fuels Unrest as Election Approaches

By Merit Al-Sayed

With only two weeks to go before the decisive run-off round of Egypt’s presidential election, voters are presented with a polarizing choice between an Islamist Candidate and a former military man who served as former president Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister in the final days of his embattled regime.  As revolutionary forces threaten to boycott […]

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Jun 2, 2012

Mubarak and the State of Emergency Sacrificed

By Michele Dunne

In another of the strange turns that have characterized Egypt’s post revolutionary trajectory, suddenly this week Hosni Mubarak and the state of emergency that typified and sustained his 30 year rule were set aside with 48 hours of each other.  Although the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) never had the courage to lift […]

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Jun 2, 2012

Developing Democracy in Egypt: A Work in Progress

By Catriona Knapman

The presidential elections were met with high expectations in Egypt. Yet the results of the polls have brought much disillusion and disappointment, forcing second-round voters to choose between the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate (Mohamed Morsy) and an ex-regime candidate (Ahmed Shafik), who together won only half of the vote in the first round. After the official […]