Articles tagged with: cairo
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Friday, 22 Jun, 2012
Five days have passed since Egypt held their run-off for the presidency between Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik. Independent polls are pointing towards a victory by Morsi but there are widespread reports of electoral irregularities. As a result, in typical post-Mubarak politics, supporters for both candidates headed to Tahrir Square, the only real symbol of the Arab Spring left in Egypt. Often, delays in electoral results in authoritarian systems is not as much about maintaining the integrity of ...
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Friday, 22 Jun, 2012
If anybody else is uncertain about the fate of Egypt’s future, one person certainly isn’t.
Speaking to the BBC yesterday, retired Major General Sameh Seif el-Yazal revealed that he had been using a rather unorthodox methodology to sharpen his political antennae.
“Sometimes I use my crystal ball,” he said, referring to the debate over who will win the presidential election when the results are announced on Sunday.
“I have a crystal ball and I look at it in the evening and see ...
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Thursday, 21 Jun, 2012
The situation in Egypt has reached a particularly delicate stage after a roller-coaster ride of political turmoil in the last few weeks.
At time of writing, thousands of demonst...
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Wednesday, 6 Jun, 2012
It was a good verdict for the Brotherhood.
Not only was Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s despised ex-dictator, sentenced to life in prison, bribery charges against his equally loath...
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The political mood in Cairo and wider Egypt—not to mention the general mood in the streets—is tense. The country has been stretched to breaking point over a year and a half...
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Tuesday, 22 May, 2012
On Saturday I met with Kemal Helbawi, who was an esteemed member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood before he angrily resigned from the group after the toppling of dictator Hosni ...
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Tuesday, 22 May, 2012
The government killjoys struck early and with brutal efficiency.
By midday Monday, they had erased hours upon hours worth of graffiti which had been painstakingly created by...
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Friday, 18 May, 2012
Sameh Roshdy has seen his fair share of economic slumps in Luxor, the tourist honeypot 400 miles upriver from Cairo.
First there was the downturn which followed the Gulf War...
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Thursday, 3 May, 2012
Egyptian collector of Orientalist art, Shafik Gabr, believes that Orientalism embodies a dynamic and continuing dialogue between East and West. “The Middle East has always be...
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Tuesday, 10 Apr, 2012
On a sunny Spring morning on the outskirts of Cairo last month, around two dozen men filed into a conference room of the plush clubhouse in Kattameya Heights, an exclusive resident...
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