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Apr 26, 2012

Top News: Islamists Divided Between Morsi and Fotouh

By Mara Revkin

44 percent of the members of the general assembly of al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Building and Development Party are supporting Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh in the presidential election, according to an opinion survey. Only 25.8 percent of members support the Brotherhood’s designated candidate, Mohamed Morsi.

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Apr 25, 2012

Top News: Parliament Advances Bid to Withdraw Confidence From Cabinet

By Mara Revkin

After ten sessions of debate, a parliamentary majority voted to reject the Cabinet’s plan for managing the duration of the transition and decided to continue procedures for withdrawing confidence from the Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri’s government.

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Apr 25, 2012

A New Direction for Egypt’s Economy: Five Influential Economic Thinkers Shaping the Debate

By Hoda Youssef

Throughout Egypt’s history, economic thinking has always had a profound influence on society and on the organization of production and distribution. The post-Mubarak era is no exception. President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s endeavor to establish Egypt as the leader of a unified Arab world and his pioneering of the economic model that came to be known […]

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Apr 24, 2012

Top News: Netanyahu Calls Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula a “Wild West”

By Mara Revkin

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau said that Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has turned into a "kind of Wild West" exploited by Islamist militants with Iranian help to smuggle in weapons and stage attacks on Israel.

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Apr 23, 2012

Egypt’s Fuel Subsidies: Too Costly to Bear

By Maye Ehab

In the last couple of months, Egyptians have suffered from a malfunctioning fuel subsidy system that is badly in need of reform. Cars have been lined up to fill their tanks at gas stations. At warehouses, queues were too long to buy gas cylinders. The low subsidized price of the petroleum products and gas cylinders […]

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Apr 23, 2012

Top News: Egypt Denies Permits to 8 American NGOs including Carter Center

By Mara Revkin

The Ministry of Social Affairs denied the requests of eight American NGOs seeking permission to operate in Egypt. One of the NGOs is the Carter Center, which was seeking to deploy observers to monitor the presidential election.

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Apr 20, 2012

Thousands Rally in Tahrir Square to “Protect the Revolution”

By Mara Revkin

Tens of thousands of protesters representing the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Azhar and over 30 other liberal, leftist and Islamist groups are participating in a mass demonstration in Tahrir Square. 

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Apr 20, 2012

Behind Political Games, Egypt’s Big Picture Looks Increasingly Bleak

By Sara Ashour

Egypt’s political map is changing so rapidly that it’s almost impossible to see the big picture, when all of the component pieces are constantly in motion. Like a chess board, Egypt’s major political players are making bold moves. Last month, the Brotherhood nominated a presidential contender after repeatedly promising for a whole year that they […]

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Apr 19, 2012

Presidential Disqualifications: Judicial Independence or SCAF Meddling?

By Tarek Radwan

Last week, the news that the Supreme Presidential Elections Commission (SPEC) had disqualified 10 candidates in Egypt’s race for the presidency dominated the headlines.  The decision barred the three most polarizing figures who had decided to run: Hazem Abu Ismail representing the Salafi bloc, Khairat al-Shater representing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), […]

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Apr 19, 2012

Top News: Brotherhood Joins Calls for Mass Protest in Tahrir Square

By Mara Revkin

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party announced its intended participation in a mass demonstration planned for Friday April 20 that had originally been organized by April 6 and other secular groups citing as one of their grievances the Brotherhood’s alleged alliance with the SCAF. The April 6 Youth Movment and over 34 political groups have […]