Articles tagged with: Mubarak
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Monday, 29 Apr, 2013
It was clear from day one that President Mohamed Mursi and his government would face a daunting task at the helm of the Egyptian state. Hosni Mubarak’s civil order was mostly imposed through fear and coercion; political participation was a luxury enjoyed by only a select few. More significantly, the former president’s late economic reforms never managed to narrow the colossal gap between a rich minority and the millions of poor.
Today, Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood are struggling t...
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Thursday, 21 Mar, 2013
Bottled water shortages, daily street battles and citizen militias: this is part of the reality in which Egyptians must conduct their daily affairs, two short years after a sweeping revolution vowed to clean out the old order and pave a path to a more promising future. Yet, power grabs, political deadlock and a president daily losing popular support and becoming what some perceive to be a poor man’s Mubarak are now the status quo, and not what the revolutionaries set out to achieve.
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Thursday, 7 Feb, 2013
It is no secret that many view Mohamed Mursi’s presidency as a huge blow to what the revolution stood for to liberals like myself: a secular state. In the early days, during ...
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Thursday, 15 Nov, 2012
Egypt’s worsening economic and social situation might have fueled the fire of the 2011 revolution, but two years later most of the same problems persist. The blame is usually...
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Friday, 24 Aug, 2012
When it comes to glad-handing dictators, Ahmed Mourad has had more experience than most.
“I shook hands with Gaddafi in 2004 and 2008,” he recalls with a smile. “We met in...
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Thursday, 12 Jul, 2012
Since mid-June, a constitutional crisis has gripped Egypt, pitting two Mubarak-era institutions—the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the Supreme Constitutional Cour...
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Bahaa Taher was born 1935, in Giza (Greater Cairo), to parents from the Karnak village in the Luxor governorate, Upper Egypt. He graduated from the literature department at the...
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Thursday, 14 Jun, 2012
Political confusion, widespread anxiety and profound mistrust are once again the order of the day in Egypt.
The decision announced on Thursday by Egypt’s supreme constitutiona...
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Standing outside the courtroom where Hosni Mubarak was awaiting his trial verdict on Saturday, Mediha Abdel-Aziz was one of about 40 people who had travelled to the desert fringes ...
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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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