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A Wave of Anger Threatens to Disrupt Presidential Election / موجة الغضب تشوش على الانتخابات الرئاسية

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Dec 7, 2025

One year after Assad’s fall, here’s what’s needed to advance justice for Syrians

The second year of a post-Assad Syria requires structural reform, victim-centered leadership, and international reinforcement.

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A Wave of Anger Threatens to Disrupt Presidential Election / موجة الغضب تشوش على الانتخابات الرئاسية

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Nov 20, 2025

Saudi Arabia’s next horizon: Building human capital beyond Vision 2030

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Riyadh still needs to take fully support small and medium-sized enterprises—the true engines of job creation.

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A Wave of Anger Threatens to Disrupt Presidential Election / موجة الغضب تشوش على الانتخابات الرئاسية

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Nov 10, 2025

The Nile at a crossroads: Navigating the GERD dispute as Egypt’s floodwaters rise

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The latest escalation between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia coincides with a diplomatic shift from the United States.

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May 5, 2012

A Wave of Anger Threatens to Disrupt Presidential Election / موجة الغضب تشوش على الانتخابات الرئاسية

By Magdy Samaan

A microbus was moving slowly down Ramses Street in downtown Cairo due to the clashes in Abassiya Square between angry youth and military police near the Ministry of Defense. On the bus, a female passenger expressed her anger about the return of violence. The woman did not know who was killing whom, or what was […]

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May 2, 2012

May 2: Another Mohammed Mahmoud?

By Tarek Radwan

It is far too early to tell as events rapidly unfold, but today’s clashes in front of the Ministry of Defense in the Abbasiyya neighborhood of Cairo have sparked renewed fears of massive unrest in Egypt with accusations hurled in every direction between the parties involved in the conflict. With official reports claiming six deaths […]

MENASource

May 2, 2012

Eleven Protesters Killed in Cairo Clashes

By Mara Revkin

At least eleven people were killed and nearly two hundred people were injured during violent clashes after armed thugs allegedly allied attacked a sit-in by supporters of disqualified Salafi presidential candidate Hazem Saleh Abu Ismail with tear gas and Molotov cocktails near the Defense Ministry building in Cairo’s Abbasiya neighborhood early on May 2, prompting […]

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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.

MENASource

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 […]

MENASource

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.”

MENASource

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.

MENASource

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.

MENASource

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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