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March 29, 2014
Abdel Bari Atwan
When the Egyptian authorities announced their intention to broadcast the proceedings of the trial of deposed President Mohammed Morsi live on television, I was glued to the screen with...
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March 29, 2014
Fahmi Huwaidi
We are not just demanding the protection of the dreams of Egypt’s revolution but also the protection of its memory. The public campaign intended to defame the revolutionaries was...
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March 29, 2014
Dr Abdus Sattar Qassim
I have been following the events in Egypt with great interest since the beginning of the Arab-Egyptian movement against Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian regime which was also subservient to the...
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March 29, 2014
Yasser Abu Hilalah
A return to the borders of January 25 is not possible, even if the army reinstates Mubarak as president. The revolution, as was evident this Saturday, is besieging the...
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Egyptian military officials have been making more threats against the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip. Speaking to different journalists, they say they will embark on a new campaign...
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March 24, 2014
David Hearst
The Muslim Brotherhood has survived three major crackdowns in its 80 year history with its reformist agenda in tact. One under the monarchy in 1949, and two under Nasser...
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March 22, 2014
Fahmi Huwaidi
A resolution to the crisis in Egypt doesn’t look as if it is on the agenda as we enter the revolution’s fourth year. This should not surprise us, as...
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Catherine Ashton, the EU Foreign Affairs High Representative, remains the only foreign official to have met with ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during his detention. Shortly after the coup...
The Muslim Brotherhood has denied reports they have formed a military wing. In statements to the Anadolu news agency, senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Mohamed Ali Beshr...
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News Islamist politician and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh accused on Sunday the military backed authorities of establishing a “republic of fear” in Egypt, saying that “there is no...
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News Unprecedented human rights violations are being committed in Egypt, a human rights group said on Sunday. Speaking to Al-Jazeera Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said the Egyptian...
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News Hossam Moanis, spokesperson of the Popular Current, directed a message to Mahmoud Badr, one of the founders of the Egyptian Tamarod, after the latter accused the members of the...
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News Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed his concerns on Friday about the detention of journalists and increasing restrictions on the mass media in Egypt. The British minister called upon the...
Egypt’s Women against the Coup movement has revealed that the authorities arrested 200 women in December and January and accused the interior ministry of torture and sexual abuse. “We...
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News The alliance supporting the elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi considered the verdict issued on Thursday against a 15-year old student, sentencing her to one year in prison, as “an...
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News Representatives from Israel’s Leviathan Gas Company met with members of the British Gas Group in Cyprus last week to discuss exporting gas to Egypt, Israel’s Calcalist business newspaper said....
Deposed President Mohammed Morsi is innocent and deserves better treatment, the ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is said to have said. Following his visit to see Mubarak, actor Talaat...
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News Egypt’s Defence Minister Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi announced his intention to run for president of Egypt via Kuwait’s Al-Seyassah newspaper on Thursday. Al-Sisi told the newspaper that: “I...
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News The US administration has expressed “deep concern” about freedom of expression in Egypt and the interim government’s detention of journalists and academics. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told...
The Egyptian government estimates that the energy crisis in Egypt is likely to worsen in the next fiscal year, as gas production fails to meet the growing domestic demand....
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News Government estimates forecast Egypt’s energy crisis will worsen in the next fiscal year with the failure of gas production to accommodate the growing domestic demand, Reuters news agency reported...
Israel’s Defence Minister said on Sunday that Egypt’s coup last year has alleviated the fears of Israel and several other countries about what he described as an “Islamist winter”....
Egypt’s Board of State Commissioners has refused the Libyan authorities demand to extradite former coordinator of Libyan-Egyptian relations Ahmad Qaddafi Al-Dam, a cousin of ousted Libyan Colonel Muammar Al-Qaddafi....
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News A massive media campaign has started in Egypt against Britain’s Guardian newspaper. Egyptian pro-coup media and even British-Egyptians have labelled the left-of-centre Guardian as “affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood”,...
Egyptian judge Hossam El-Gheriany has defended the stances adopted by the Muslim Brotherhood before the 3 July coup, pointing out that although the Brotherhood and other political forces made...
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News Below is the text from Dr Maha Azzam’s Open letter to the Guardian. Sir, Mr Blair’s recent comments in support of the military coup in Egypt are both misinformed...
What happened in Egypt on July 30 was not a coup, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria said. Speaking to a delegation from Britain’s House of...
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News DEBKAfile, an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem, has argued in a report that Israel will pay a heavy price for its continued security coordination with Egypt’s Minister...
Saudi columnist Muhanna Al-Habil has launched a strong attack on the UAE and its policies regarding Egypt. The writer accused the Emirates of setting up an axis in the...
The Egyptians for Democracy UK condemns Tony Blair’s misguided remarks on Egypt which he made in a televised interview with Sky News Arabia during his latest visit to Cairo....
An informed government source in Jordan has said that closing the borders with Iraq for security reasons has led to the suspension of oil imports to the kingdom. The...
The former Secretary General of the Arab League and President of the Committee of 50 that put the new Egyptian constitution into place has said that he believes that...
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