10/25/12 - TIME - In the past 18 months, I’ve probably entered Tahrir Square more than 100 times, and I like to think I’ve developed pretty good instincts about the place. Normally when I think things are going to be dangerous there–with clashes between protesters and the poli...

 8/21/12, Egypt Independent - The Muslim Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau has proposed a list of 50 new governors to President Mohamed Morsy, a source within the group told Al-Masry Al-Youm on condition of anonymity Tuesday. Different sources close to the president told Al-Masry Al-Youm that...

Yahoo!, 8/25/12 - CAIRO (AP) — Egypt will have a new constitution drafted by the end of September and ready to be submitted to a nationwide referendum, the country's prime minister said Saturday. Hisham Kandil did not specify a date for the referendum, though, according to Egypt's MENA s...

 BBC, 8/12/12 - Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has ordered the retirement of the powerful head of the country's armed forces, Field Marshal Mohamad Hussein Tantawi, a presidential spokesman has said. He also said a constitutional declaration aimed at curbing presidential powers had bee...

 IANS/AKI News, 7/5/12 - A group of minority Coptic Christian activists in Egypt have formed a new political group, the Christian Brotherhood, to present a non-violent challenge to the Muslim Brotherhood after it captured the presidency. According to Arabic satellite TV network al-Arabiya...

 Associated Press, 6/24/12 - CAIRO (AP) — The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt's first free presidential election Sunday, and he proclaimed himself a leader "for all Egyptians," although he faces a struggle for power with the country's st...

New York Times, 6/24/12 -CAIRO — As his supporters in Tahrir Square were chanting on Sunday for the end of military rule in Egypt, the country’s president-elect, Mohamed Morsi, had glowing words for none other than the army, saying he regarded it with a “love in my heart that only ...

 New York Times, 3/31/12:  CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood nominated its chief strategist and financier Khairat el-Shater on Saturday as its candidate to become Egypt’s first president since Hosni Mubarak, breaking a pledge not to seek the top office and a monopoly on power. Mr...

 11/3/11 - Foreign Policy - The performance of the Islamist party Ennahda in the October 23 Tunisian elections, in which it won 41.5 percent of the seats, has refocused attention on the upcoming Egyptian elections scheduled to begin on November 28. Some analysts have minimized the Muslim B...

10/16/11 - (Reuters) - Egyptian presidential hopeful Ayman Nour on Sunday failed in a bid to overturn a ruling that bars him from running for public office, imposed in 2005 when he was convicted of forging documents. A court turned down the appeal by Nour, the leader of al-Ghad party, who was sente...

10/1/11 -  CAIRO AFP — Egypt's military rulers agreed on Saturday to amend a controversial electoral law following threats of a poll boycott by dozens of political parties and a rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square for reforms. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took power when p...

 Foreign Policy, 9/20/11 - Egyptian activists took to the streets on September 9 calling to "correct the path" of a revolution which they see slipping away. They particularly focused their ire on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which they see as leading a counter-...

 Washington Post, 9/25/11 - Is Egypt imploding? A lot of people in Washington seem to think so, though they are talking about it quietly so far. Their fears are specific: that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic fundamentalist parties will take power when Egypt’s first democrat...

9/16/11 -  (CNN) -- During a protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square a month after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, Bothaina Kamel spotted a slogan supporting womens' right to be president of Egypt. She said: "At that moment, I thought we shouldn't just be saying that, we should be putting i...

 Almasry Alyioum, 8/21/11 Mahmoud Shaaban, member of the presidential campaign of Mohamed ElBaradei, said on Sunday that security forces kidnapped him in the coastal city of Alexandria on Saturday and questioned him about the campaign’s relation to the April 6 Youth Movement, which autho...

 AFP, 7/13/11 - CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians rallied on Tuesday for the downfall of Egypt's military leader, as anger mounts over the army's handling of a transition from the country's former autocratic regime. Five months after a popular uprising ousted President Hosni Mubarak, activist...

7/12/11 - Cairo (CNN) -- Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said Monday he would reshuffle his cabinet within a week and called for the trials of former officials accused of killing protesters to be open to the public. The announcements were meant to mollify demonstrators, angered at the slo...

 Washington Institute, 7/8/11 Tens of thousands of liberal and Islamist Egyptians gathered in Cairo and Alexandria today for protests dubbed the "Friday of Persistence." The demonstration -- a rare showing of national unity in a polarized political spectrum -- was made possible by a ...

 بعيدا عن جدل الدستور والانتخابات. تأتى أهمية وثيقة الحقوق الأساسية التى أعلن عنها الدكتور محمد البرادعى، ويمكن أن تمثل مخرجا من مأزق الانقسام الحاد، الذى لا تظهر له نهاية. البلد كما قال البرادعى «لا تحتمل مزيدا من الانقسام، والناس تريد أن تطمئن للمستقبل وتتجنب المجازفات والعشوائية»...

 Washington Institute, 6/30/11 - On July 1 and 8, protestors plan to hold demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square. If they experience the same violent repression seen at the June 28-29 protests, however, many will begin to question how much has actually changed since the days of former pre...

 “Muslims had a golden age, ruled the world and created a great civilization when they lived under an Islamic caliphate that ruled by Islamic law. In modern times imperialism succeeded in overthrowing the caliphate and polluting the minds of Muslims with Western ideas when they fell on...

 كان 27 مايو الماضي يوماً من أيام مصر الثورة.. الجمعة الماضي جاء يوم تعديل المسار وقد اختلط بمفردات الواقع الراهن بكل ما فيه من آمال مستحقة وقلق مبرر.. حبسنا أنفاسنا قبل أن تخرج الحشود الرائعة تجدد القسم وتعلن الولاء ان الثورة مستمرة مادامت أهدافها لم تتحقق، تنوعت مصادر القلق فكان ضمن ما سمعناه...

 هذه واقعة حقيقية حدثت عام 2001 بطلها متطرف إسلامى مصرى اسمه أحمد عجيزة، قام بتأسيس ما عرف بـ«تنظيم طلائع الفتح»، وكان مسؤولاً عن تنفيذ عمليات إرهابية داخل وخارج مصر. تمكّن «عجيزة» من الفرار إلى السويد حيث قام بطلب اللجوء السياسى، وبينما تدرس السلطات هناك طلبه طلبت الحك...

 Almasry Alyoum, 4/27/11 Presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei has asked the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to include an article in the constitution protecting the status of Egypt as a secular state. He said Egypt must be ruled by institutions and not by individuals, adding that the ...

 LA Times, 4/16/11 Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court on Saturday disbanded the former ruling National Democratic Party that was headed by ousted President Hosni Mubarak. The move marked the further unraveling of the power structure that presided over the country's corrupt police state...

 القاهرة - محرر مصراوي أعلن الدكتور محمد البرادعي، المرشح المحتمل للرئاسة عن موافقته، على المشاركة فى مجلس رئاسي معين من قبل المجلس العسكري، وعدم ترشحه لانتخابات الرئاسة القادمة. وقال البرادعي في حوار مع صحيغة المصري اليوم " سأقبل فورا المشاركة في مجلس رئاسي، لأننى مؤمن بأن هذه المرحلة ا...

The rapid flow of political events, currently occurring in Egypt, in a telescopic fashion, makes it very difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. What started on January 25 was, to say the least, unexpected and took everyone by surprise. A movement of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) was anticipat...

 The Christian Post, 3/25/11 Fear persists among Egypt’s minority Coptic community despite hope among the rest of the population of greater freedom after the successful referendum to amend the constitution. The predominantly Arab nation experienced its largest voter turnout in decades...

 A couple of days ago I was asked about the chances of liberal forces in Egypt after the referendum results. My response was in the negative. The young activists that are often described in the Western media as liberal, democrat, or secular stand no chance in the next parliamentary elections...

 Following the successful 1919 revolution and after the British occupying forces succumbed to the will of the Egyptian people, King Faruq established a committee to draft a new constitution. The committee was appointed rather than elected. Nationalist leader Saad Zaghloul objected, demanding th...

 Washington Post, 3/15/11: Dobson is guest blogging for The Post this week from Cairo. When the Egyptian army entered the streets of Cairo at the peak of the protests in Tahrir Square in January, its members were welcomed as heroes. When they pledged not to fire on the demonstrators, people i...

The National, 3/14/2011 - CAIRO // As a prominent political dissident, Ayman Nour always knew that he was under close surveillance in the police state of former president Hosni Mubarak. But after reading his own intelligence file, which his son discovered by chance last week when demonstrators raid...

 أصدرت الهيئة القبطية العامة برئاسة الدكتور شريف دوس، بيـانها رقم "1"، وأكد البيان أن الحاضرين من رؤساء الجمعيات القبطية فى أوروبا وأمريكا مع بعض كوادر شباب ثورة يناير، اتفقوا على إنشاء أحزاب سياسية جديدة والمشاركة فى العمل الوطنى فى مصر. وأشار البيان، إلى أنه تم الاتفاق على ستة مطال...

 يقول الإمام الغزالى: "قد يكون فى الجحيم نافذة على الجنة" هذا ما شعرت به طوال متابعتى عن كثب للأحداث القبطية الأخيرة تلك التى حدثت فى قرية صول بأطفيح، وكيف تحرك علماء المسلمين على مختلف الاتجاهات للتأكيد على أن قيم الإسلام الفضلى لا تجيز بل وتحرم حرق أو هدم أو التعرض لدور العبادة لغ...

Aljazeera, 3/10/2011 Mohammed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate and former head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency, has said on a privately owned TV channel that he intends to run for president in Egypt's 2011 presidential election. "When the door of presidential nominations opens, I intend to nom...

 كلف الدكتور ماجد عثمان وزير الاتصالات وتكنولوجيا المعلومات المهندس ياسر القاضي الرئيس التنفيذي لهيئة تنمية صناعة تكنولوجيا المعلومات "ايتيدا" ببدء حوار مع منظمات الأعمال والمجتمع المدني العاملة في مجال تكنولوجيا المعلومات وكافة المهتمين لدراسة مدي إمكانية الاستفادة من قانون التوقيع ا...

 القاهرة: كشفت شخصية قبطية مصرية بارزة، في حوار خاص لـ"إيلاف"، عن قلق عام في أوساط أقباط مصر من وصول "حكم ديني" بعد نهاية الحكم العسكري، مشيرة في ذلك إلى المادة الثانية في الدستور المصري، التي تقول إن "الإسلام دين الدولة، واللغة العربية لغتها الرسمية، ومبادئ الشريعة الإ...

 • الإعلان عن وجود نيرون المخلوع في شرم الشيخ يستدعي التساؤل: هل يقيم في شقة مؤجرة أم في فندق أم في قصر الرئاسة هناك؟ • تفويض الجيش لحكومة شكًلها نيرون لإدارة شئون البلاد مؤقتا أمر بغيض، والوطن اليوم به من الكفاءات و الكوادر الليبرالية الوطنية ما يصنع أفضل الوزارات. خاصة وأن وزارة شف...

 كتب دندراوى الهوارى ترددت أنباء قوية عن وضع 4 من قيادات وزارة الداخلية رهن الإقامة الجبرية، وتجميد أرصدتهم فى البنوك، ومن بين هؤلاء اللواء حسن عبد الرحمن رئيس جهاز أمن الدولة، واللواء عدلى فايد مساعد وزير الداخلية لقطاع الأمن العام، واللواء أحمد رمزى مساعد وزير الداخلية لقطاع الأمن المركز...

 إنهم شباب صاعد واعد آمن بالحرية والعدل، أبناء مصر الحقيقيون، وشباب متحضر استخدم كل الوسائل السلمية المتاحة لقيادة ثورة لإقصاء نظام مستبد هيمن على مصر فأخرها لعقود طويلة. إن إنجاز شباب مصر ليس فى الثورة الشعبية التى تعيشها مصر الآن، ولكن لأنهم استطاعوا لم شمل أبناء الوطن بلا تفرقة فى مظاهرات ع...

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National Interest, 1/20/2011 After decades of looking to Egypt to provide stability in the Middle East, Washington finds Cairo contending with an increasingly dangerous combination of ossified leadership, Islamist violence, and disaffected minorities. From the New Year’s Eve suicide bombing a...

 Are we there yet or are we on our way, hell bent to join the likes of Iran and Iraq; fanatic theocracies? The minor difference is that if Egypt continues to hurtle down this path it will earn the Islamist rather than Islamic nomenclature. In all but a few empty words by a few Muslims in author...

1/19/20211  - CAIRO (AP) — Though he still delivers a speech like an aloof corporate executive announcing quarterly profits, the son and presumptive heir of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is busy remolding his image into a populist who can deliver prosperity for the struggling populatio...

 News 24, 1/18/2011 - Vienna - A regime change in Egypt is "inevitable" following the popular uprising in Tunisia, Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei said on Tuesday. "It is inevitable. Change must come," ElBaradei told the Austrian news agency APA in an inte...

 Foreign Policy, Jan 2011 Edition What would happen if you spent 30 years making fun of the same man? What if for the last decade, you had been mocking his imminent death -- and yet he continued to stay alive, making all your jokes about his immortality seem a bit too uncomfortably close to th...

 "نشر هذا المقال في مايو الماضي بنفس العنوان، وفيه إشارة لجزء من رواية مقتل الرجل الكبير لإبراهيم عيسى عن جماعة "المولعين بجاز"، وها نحن نعيد نشره مرة أخرى، بعدما انتقلت الأحداث من الرواية إلى واقع العالم العربي" خروج العمال من هدومهم ووقوفهم عرايا أمام مجلس الشعب ونومتهم ع...

Almasry Alyoum, 1/6/2011 Former International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei blamed the Alexandria church bombing on an educational and religious atmosphere that fosters hatred. In a video posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday, ElBaradei added that Copts should enjoy freedom of conscien...

 بقلم منار الشوربجى 22/ 12/ 2010 يستحق الدكتور البرادعى التقدير والاحترام لإصراره على أن يرفع صوته مساندا لمواطنيه الذين يؤمنون بأن مصر العظيمة تستحق أفضل بكثير مما هى فيه، فالرجل الذى حقق مكانة دولية مرموقة خارج مصر كان بإمكانه أن يكتفى بذلك ويقضى سنى شيخوخته مستمتعا بما أنجز، بعيدا عن...

 Reuters, 12/28/2010 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will seek to raise its annual investments to 100 billion Egyptian pounds in the next five years, up from 30 billion pounds, to lift its growth rates to 7 and 8 percent, the ruling party's policy chief and the president's son said on Monday. Gamal M...