Articles tagged with: mursi
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Tuesday, 21 May, 2013
In an interview last month, Egyptian politician Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh displayed the poise and good humor of a man who had the foresight to step off a bus before it rolled into a ditch. The former Muslim Brotherhood member spoke confidently about newly democratic Egypt, which he said would succeed so long as it remained true to its ecumenical, secular traditions.
"Religion should change society indirectly through inspiration, not directly through politics," he said from his office in subu...
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
Actor Waleed Hammad dressed up as a woman and walked Egypt’s streets for an investigative television report into what it feels like to be sexually harassed. The program aired earlier this month, and perhaps best exemplifies one of the major achievements of the January 25 revolution: the heightened awareness of the endemic sexual harassment of women on Egypt’s streets. Hammad’s video footage of his secret assignments, as well as the widespread coverage his story has received, would have...
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
CAIRO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Responding to the Tamarod (Rebellion) petition seeking to oust Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi—which at last count had gathered more than two millio...
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Sunday, 28 Apr, 2013
Haram Street, the Cairene boulevard famed for its late-night entertainment and tourist traps, was most recently used as the title of a film that broke records at the Egyptian...
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Wednesday, 3 Apr, 2013
Egypt’s political scene today seems deeply polarized between supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood. Violent clashes are not a rare sight. In such a context, it is di...
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Thursday, 7 Mar, 2013
CAIRO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s controversial legislative elections, due to begin next month, have been postponed by a court ruling only two weeks after Egypt’s largest op...
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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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Tuesday, 29 Jan, 2013
CAIRO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s defense minister warned Tuesday of the “the collapse of the state” if the current political crisis continues. Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, head of ...
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Monday, 20 Aug, 2012
Over the weekend, Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi, announced that he intended to travel to Tehran at the end of August to attend a summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NA...
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Thursday, 9 Aug, 2012
On Sunday 5 August, a group of masked gunmen attacked an Egyptian Army checkpoint near the Egypt-Israel border, killing at least fifteen soldiers. During the attack, the gunmen sei...
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