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Arab Spring’s Hits and Misses: Evolution over Revolution

Put simply, Egypt chose democratization before liberalization. Elections became the most important element of the new order, used in legitimizing the new government, electing a president and [...]

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Morsi Rejects Calls for New Unity Government in Egypt

His visit to Germany was controversial, with newspapers and television commentators questioning whether Egypt was on the path to democracy. In a country conscious of its responsibility for the [...]

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Is Morsi a Two-Faced Manipulator? – Former Associate Calls Him a ‘Master of Disguise’

The government in Jerusalem had not expected such warm words from a president who had emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood. Unsure whether they were perhaps the victims of a forgery, the Israelis [...]

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Egyptian Salafi Leader Muhammad Al-Zawahiri: Democracy Contravenes Islam; Shari’a Law Is The Answer To All Of Egypt’s Problems

The following is the interview, as published in the English edition of Al-Sharq Al-Awsat:[1] “Muhammad Al-Zawahiri is the brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri and a founding member [...]

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Seven Copts Sentenced to Death for Presumed Role in Anti-Islam Film

The convicted Copts include Morris Sadek, a lawyer and founder of the National American Coptic Assembly, Father Aziz Khalil, Fikri Abdel Masih Zaklma (known as Esmat Zaklma), Nabil Adib Besada, [...]

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Back to Mubarak

In recent months, however, the prevailing attitude has changed somewhat. President Mohamed Morsi’s blatant power grab in November, coupled with his ramming through an Islamist constitution [...]

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Army Chief Says Political Tussle Taking Egypt to Brink

Sisi’s comments, published on an official army Facebook page, followed 52 deaths in the past week of disorder and highlighted the mounting sense of crisis facing Egypt and its Islamist head [...]

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Egypt’s Revolution Dark Days

The past two days in Egypt looked at times like a slow-motion repeat of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak two years ago: the marches, the gas, the shouted demands to topple the regime, [...]