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Egypt’s Military Back in Play

ElBaradei was not advocating the intervention of the military — he was simply pointing that it may happen as a natural consequence. Nevertheless, a certain scenario has been making the [...]

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USCIRF Chair Testifies on the Situation in Egypt

The short and simple answer to your question is that much has changed in Egypt, but much more needs to change if the Egyptian people are going to realize their hopes for a genuine democracy that [...]

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Libyan Authorities Torture Arrested Coptic Christian Accused of Proselytizing

As with others arrested, Ramses was alleged to have 30,000 Bibles, a number which has been inflated in statements by Libyan police to 45,000. It said that Ramses ran a small printing service in [...]

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Who Will the Muslim Brotherhood Heed: Allah or Tom Friedman (and such people)? No Contest

Friedman writes: “Since the start of the 2011 revolution in Tahrir Square, every time the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood faced a choice of whether to behave in an inclusive way or grab more [...]

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Clouded U.S. Policy on Egypt

However, in post-Mubarak Egypt, entreaties to restraint now mask a more enduring reality: in dealing with the country’s newly-empowered Islamists, U.S. policy in Egypt remains trapped in [...]

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Kerry’s Cairo Visit

Several Cairo-based foreign diplomats and sources within the Brotherhood reportedly commented on the “influential” role that U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson played in helping to establish and [...]

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Shura Council Discusses Controversial NGO Draft Law

Al-Demerdash also commended the Shura Council’s efforts to limit the role of security in civil society. However, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) expressed “intensive worry for [...]

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The Egyptian Army Is Making a Comeback

That state of affairs leaves the Brotherhood and Morsi with mixed feelings. In the course of the past few weeks they have became painfully aware of the fact that the army will not protect the [...]