Articles tagged with: shafik
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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 demonstrators have re-occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square in protest at the delay in the announcement of the results of Egypt’s presidential election and recent moves by Egypt’s military council to beef-up its powers.
Both candidates in the election, Ahmed Shafik, widely perceived as a proxy of the military, and the Musli...
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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 constitutional court—to allow former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik to stand in the imminent presidential run-off vote—has provoked indignation amongst opponents of Mubarak’s ousted regime.
The court declared that a law passed in April that denied political participation to anyone involved in the upper reaches of the previou...
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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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Wednesday, 30 May, 2012
Amal turned her gaze away from me and looked off in another direction.“I can’t even bring myself to say it,” she said, shaking her head in utter disbelief.
We were sat...
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Wednesday, 30 May, 2012
Shortages—of petrol, electricity, hard currency, patience—plague Egypt. But there is an abundance of ghosts.
Egyptians are consumed with the estrangement of their dismal...
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Tuesday, 29 May, 2012
A decade ago, while researching a book about the failure of the modern Arab economy, I spent a day with Mohammed Morsi, then a member of Egypt’s parliament and a senior leade...
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Monday, 28 May, 2012
The night before the results of Egypt’s presidential election were announced last week I had dinner with a close friend. She had voted for the leftist Khaled Ali because she ...
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Friday, 25 May, 2012
If independent polls are correct, the second round of Egypt’s presidential election will pit Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom & Justice Party against ...
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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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