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Jun 8, 2012

Competing Fears Will Determine Egypt’s Next President / صراع المخاوف يحدد رئيس مصر القادم

By Haitham Tabei

The first round of the presidential election has set the stage for a decisive run-off between the Freedom and Justice Party’s candidate Mohamed Morsi and former Prime Minsiter Ahmed Shafik – a race viewed as a worst case scenario for millions of supporters of the revolution and bewildered voters who cannot envision voting for two […]

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Jun 8, 2012

Top News: Judges Break Neutrality to Oppose Islamist Victory in Election

By Mara Revkin

The president of the association of Egyptian judges said Thursday that they were abandoning their neutrality toward the coming presidential runoff in an effort to guard against an Islamist monopoly of power.

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Jun 7, 2012

Top News: Supreme Court Advisory Body Challenges Legality of Parliament while Upholding Shafik’s Candidacy

By Tarek Radwan

An Egyptian judicial body recommended on Wednesday that two crucial laws be overturned, allowing former President Hosni Mubarak’s prime minister to stand for election and possibly dissolving a parliament dominated by his Islamist foes.

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Jun 7, 2012

Egypt’s Run-off: The Same Old Power Struggle /جولة الإعادة: الصراع الجديد القديم على السلطة في مصر

By Haitham Tabei

Egypt’s run-off election scheduled for June 16-17 has pitted the Freedom and Justice Party’s candidate, Mohamed Morsi, against the former regime’s candidate-of-choice, Ahmed Shafik, in a fierce competition between the same two political forces that have dominated Egyptian politics for decades: The Muslim Brotherhood and the former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP). Now the historic […]

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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 […]