Archive for the ‘Egyptian revolution’ Category
Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2013
An outsider’s perspective
Koert Debeuf
EUObserver
12thApril,2013
The day Mohamed Morsi was elected as the first civilian president of Egypt in June last year most reform minded people were hopeful. With many leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood Morsi spent many years in prison. No doubt they would do everything to change this ‘society of paranoia’, wouldn’t they? In his first speech as elected president Morsi also promised to form an inclusive government and to appoint a female and a Coptic vice-president. The main question back in June was how Morsi would deal with the army. In a ‘mini-coup’ the army curtailed the president’s position and absolved the People’s Assembly.
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Posted by seumasach on March 28, 2013
Egypt’s NSF calls for mass rally in solidarity with summoned activists
Al Ahram
27th March, 2013
Main opposition group holds President Mohamed Morsi culpable for ‘divisions’ and ‘bloodshed’ in Egypt, accusing him of fascism in fierce attack
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2013
Al Ahram
19th March, 2013
Though President Morsi’s fondest Western cultural creations are apparently “Good Morning America” and the original (1968) version of Planet of the Apes, to observe Muslim Brotherhood practice since the revolution one cannot help but be reminded of the Bard himself: “We at the height are ready to decline. There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.”
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Posted by seumasach on March 19, 2013
Hindu
18th March, 2013
Confident of navigating his country’ s post-revolution transition, Egypt’s first elected President Mohamed Morsy arrived in India on Monday to anchor a special relationship and flag his country’s ambition of joining the ranks of the world’s “emerging countries.”
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Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2013
“The presidency and government moved urgently and sent a high-level delegation to the United Arab Emirates to demand the release of detainees accused of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood weeks ago, but has neglected to address the situation of Egyptians who have been assaulted in Libya,” the opposition group said.
Al Ahram
16th March, 2013
Source tells Ahram Online that the embassy repeatedly requested protection from Egyptian authorities against recurrent attacks, in the face of a controversy about the death of a Christian Egyptian in Libya
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Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2013
Al Ahram
3rd March, 2013
Sound of gunfire continued to ring around the security directorate area in central Port Said into the early hours of Sunday night as several media outlets reported that police and army soldiers have been exchanging fire at the end of a tense day in the Suez Canal city.
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Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2013
Al Ahram
28th February, 2013
With the country’s second post-revolution parliamentary polls around the corner, Egyptian opposition parties are stepping up their opposition to what they see as Egypt’s “undemocratic” electoral setting, arguing that the current legal and political environment is not conducive to free and fair elections.
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Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2013
PressTV
18th February, 2013
Head of Egypt’s Interest Section in Iran Khalid al-Said Ibrahim Amari says a large Egyptian economic delegation is due to arrive in the Islamic Republic later this week.
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Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2013
Al Ahram
16th February, 2013
Hamas released a statement Saturday condemning the Egyptian government for flooding tunnels connecting Egypt to the Gaza Strip, reported AFP.
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Posted by seumasach on February 9, 2013
Al Ahram
8th February, 2013
Opposition figure Hamdeen Sabbahi said on Friday that peaceful protests will continue until the revolution’s goals have been achieved and until retribution for all slain protesters has been achieved.
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Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2013
It has to be said that most notably the Egyptian revolution failed to define themselves within the context of the unfolding Arab Spring: failed to separate the chafe from the grain. They could have defined their revolution as an anti-imperialist one by defending not just Egyptian sovereignty, not just the sovereign rights of the Palestinians, but the sovereignty of Libya and Syria. This was the greatest and most dismaying failure of the Egyptian revolution.
Hani Shukrallah
Al Ahram
25th Jasnuary, 2013
Mohamed Hassanein Heikal has likened the Egyptian revolution to someone who had managed to achieve the incredible feat of landing on the moon, but when asked what he wanted as a reward was baffled, asking finally, and after some hesitation for a falafel sandwich.
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