January 30, 2012 • 5:07 am 0
Egypt’s military rulers have asked a panel of advisers for suggestions about handing over power to civilians earlier than the scheduled deadline at the end of …
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December 30, 2011 • 4:15 am 0
Egyptian security forces stormed 17 offices of nonprofit groups around the country on Thursday, including at least three democracy-promotion groups financed by the United States, as part of an investigation that the …
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December 26, 2011 • 4:06 am 0
A prominent Egyptian activist and blogger, Alaa Abd El Fattah, was released from detention in Cairo on Sunday and went directly to Tahrir Square to join a protest against the country’s military rulers.
Video posted online by the Cairene blogger who writes as Zeinobia showed Mr. Fattah telling reporters in the square that the …
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December 2, 2011 • 6:20 am 0
AFTER a week of turmoil and protest, Egyptians voted on November 28th in their first elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak. The rest of the Middle East is watching carefully the results of the vote in Egypt, the most populous and influential Arab country.
Despite the protests of recent weeks and the anger at the army’s continuing role in governing Egypt, in the countrys’ largest independent daily …
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December 2, 2011 • 6:17 am 0
Preliminary results of Egypt’s strung-out parliamentary elections suggest that Islamists will be easily the largest and most potent political force
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November 20, 2011 • 1:10 am 0
A police action intended to roust a few hundred protesters out of Tahrir Square instead drew thousands of people into the streets on Saturday, where they battled riot police officers for hours in the most violent …
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October 15, 2011 • 2:27 pm 0
Egypt’s military rulers are moving to assert and extend their own power so broadly that a growing number of lawyers and activists are questioning their willingness to …
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October 8, 2011 • 4:37 am 0
THE last time Egypt’s army seized power, in 1952, it promised a swift return to civilian rule. Instead, Egyptians got six decades of autocracy, with generals manning the machinery of state behind a patchy sham of democracy. Even so most people were overjoyed last February when the generals, responding to …
MORE via Egypt’s future: The generals’ slow and unsteady march to democracy | The Economist.
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February 8, 2011 • 5:26 pm 1
Google employee is freed in Egypt showing the power and involvement of social media. Perhaps social media will create an ongoing public conversation that will prevent dictatorships from standing and better yet, from forming?
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Huge relief–Wael Ghonim has been released. Our love to him and his family.
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January 31, 2011 • 3:33 am 0
By ANTHONY SHADID and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 30, 2011
CAIRO — Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood and the secular opposition banded together Sunday around a prominent government critic to negotiate for forces seeking the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, as the army struggled to hold a capital seized by fears of chaos and buoyed by euphoria that three decades of Mr. Mubarak’s rule may be coming to an end.
Go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/world/middleeast/31-egypt.html?_r=1&hp
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A fascinating part of this ongoing story is how social media is impacting social movements throughout the world.
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