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May 1, 2012

Top News: Ministers Deny Cabinet Reshuffle

By Mara Revkin

Following reports that the SCAF has agreed to a “limited” cabinet reshuffle, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mohamed Attiya denied that a shakeup is in the works.

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Apr 30, 2012

Top News: Military Agrees to Limited Cabinet Reshuffle Under Pressure from Parliament

By Mara Revkin

On April 29, People’s Assembly Speaker Saad al-Katatny proposed suspending parliamentary sessions for a week over the Cabinet’s refusal to resign. Hours after the statement, state media reported that the SCAF is expected to conduct a limited Cabinet reshuffle that could include the appointment of Islamists, prompting the Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc to back down from […]

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Apr 27, 2012

Top News: Prime Minister Says Parliament Has No Right to Dissolve Cabinet

By Mara Revkin

Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri responded to Parliamentary Speaker Saad al-Katatny’s calls for his resignation, saying “The government will not stop down. We are governed by the Constitutional Declaration, which does not give parliament the right to withdraw confidence.”

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Apr 27, 2012

Egypt’s Transition in Danger of Regression

By Ahmed Morsy

The word “transition” implies both an origin and a destination, yet Egypt’s transitional period is still circling around a dead-end.  The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has proven incompetent in leading the interim period, except in matters affecting the military. A bigger problem is that none of the other civil political forces in […]

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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.