Posted by seumasach on November 17, 2012
Political forces in Egypt call for the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty to be immediately revised, saying Egypt is no longer a ‘strategic treasure’ for the ‘enemy’
17th November, 2012
Egypt’s political forces, including the majority Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), demand the Egyptian government and president immediately move to revise the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty amid Israel’s ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
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Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2012
Nasserist Hamdeen Sabbahi calls for a constitution that represents all Egyptians; praises Tahrir protests as part of Egypt’s ‘unfinished revolution’
20th October, 2012
Nasserist Hamdeen Sabbahi has vowed, during a press conference for his Popular Egyptian Current on Friday in Damietta, to back President Mohamed Morsi if he proves that he is working for poor, adding that he refuses any form of “Brotherhoodisation” of the state.
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Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2012
17th October, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood has admitted for the first time that its members took part in Friday’s clashes in Tahrir Square.
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Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood joins protest against it
Two protests will be held on Friday in Tahrir Square by two different sets of political forces, Islamists and non-Islamists, with two different sets of demands
11th October, 2012
Egyptian political parties and movements announced a couple of weeks ago that they will organise what they believe to be the first true million-man protest after the presidential elections in Egypt, uniting non-Islamist forces and political parties in Tahrir Square. Still, with the latest court verdict in the “Battle of the Camel” trial and calls from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and other Islamist parties for protesting in the same place, it seems there will be two protests with two sets of different demands.
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2012
7th October, 2012
The Strong Egypt Party, founded by former Presidential candidate Abdel-Moneim Abu El-Fotouh, has issued an official statement on Sunday slamming President Morsi’s comments, in his Saturday evening speech at Cairo stadium on the occasion of October 1973 war, detailing the progress his administration achieved in his first 100-days-plan since taking office back in July.
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Posted by seumasach on September 30, 2012
Popular Egyptian leftist politician and former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahy said on Saturday he is confident a coalition of leftist groups he is working to unite will be strong enough to defeat Islamists and win a parliament majority.
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Posted by seumasach on September 28, 2012
The four parties will form a single Nasserist Party, hoping to build on Hamdeen Sabbahi’s gains in the presidential election
28th September, 2012
Abdel Hakim Abdel Nasser, the son of former president Gamal Abdel Nasser, has announced the merger of four Nasserist political parties in Egypt into a single bloc. The announcement came on 28 September, the anniversary of Nasser’s death in 1970, at Nasser’s tomb in Abbasiya, Cairo.
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Posted by seumasach on September 24, 2012
24th September, 2012
The “Benghazi moment” is likely engendering a rethink in the United States’ regional strategies in the Middle East. One is inclined to agree with the Time magazine’s assessment that a Libya-style intervention by the US in Syria now becomes highly unlikely. A curious aspect of Tony Karon’s analysis is that he tosses the Syrian ball into the court of the Arab governments.
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Posted by seumasach on September 22, 2012
22nd September, 2012
Dozens of banners lined the edges of the central avenue of Cairo’s historic downtown Abdeen Square late on Friday as hundreds upon hundreds converged to show their support for the newly-established political coalition: the Egyptian Popular Current.
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Posted by seumasach on September 3, 2012
Alfredo Jalife-Rahme
30th August, 2012
Les Occidentaux ont sous-estimé le retour de l’Égypte sur la scène internationale. Ils n’ont pas vu non plus l’échec du « containement » de l’Iran et l’habile diplomatie de Téhéran pour ôter les Frères musulmans de l’influence saoudienne. Alfredo Jalife décrit cette évolution rapide qui change en partie la donne proche-orientale.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
Kaveh Afrasiabi
1st September, 2012
Egypt and Iran this week took a giant step toward overcoming their diplomatic estrangement, brought together by the exigencies of a global movement and, even more so, a complex regional calculus that has a long history of being shaped by foreign powers.
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