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Mohammed ElBaradei urges Egypt election boycott

by RAINman on 08. Sep, 2010 in Newsletter Links

BBC     7 September 2010
A leading opposition figure in Egypt has called for a boycott of November’s parliamentary election, saying it is certain to be rigged by the government.
Mohammed ElBaradei said participating would go against “the national will” to transform Egypt into a democracy.
The ex-head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said the “next year and [...]

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Ramadan series rock the boat

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By DAVID E. MILLER / THE MEDIA LINE
The Jerusalem Post    Tuesday, August 24, 2010
An elderly man walks into an Egyptian pharmacy. “I would like a blue pill, a yellow pill and a maple-colored pill,” he tells the pharmacist.
“Isn’t that a bit much?” asks an astonished bystander.
“But I am a newly-wed, and I must party all [...]

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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood launches ‘Islamic Facebook’

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Jon Leyne
BBC News  - 24 August 2010
Egypt’s opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, has launched its own Facebook-style social networking site.
A senior member of the banned Islamist group says the aim is to spread awareness of moderate Islamic values.
The Brotherhood’s version – Ikhwanbook – looks similar to Facebook, but users say it respects Islamic values better.
It [...]

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Literary critics describe the TV drama as overly sympathetic to the state

by RAINman on 20. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Brotherhood TV drama hits a nerve in Egypt

Egypt’s Brotherhood say TV series ‘propaganda’ tool to discredit group ahead of elections.

By Nadia Magd – CAIRO
Middle East Online   -  18 August 2010
The controversy that Egypt’s most popular Ramadan television series, Muslim Brotherhood, has generated is perhaps best summed up by the Facebook group created [...]

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Online support for ElBaradei grows

by RAINman on 18. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Al Jazeera   Tuesday, August 17, 2010
At least 200,000 Egyptians have signed up on the social networking website Facebook to back Mohamed ElBaradei,the former UN nuclear boss who has said he wants to shatter 30 years of political stasis in Egypt by running for president.
Despite a surge in online support for political alternatives to Hosni Mubarak, [...]

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Egypt Decides To Deny Entry To Jordanian Aid Convoy

by RAINman on 20. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by Saed Bannoura –
IMEMC & Agencies  - July 19, 2010
The Egyptian Authorities prevented the “Ansar 1” Jordanian aid convoy from entering Egypt while on their way to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued an official decree preventing the convoy from entering the country by all means, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera [...]

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Gaza aid ship ‘diverted to Egypt’

by RAINman on 15. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Al Jazeera – July 14, 2010
A Libyan aid ship originally bound for the Gaza Strip has been diverted to a port in Egypt after the Israeli navy warned the vessel against trying to break an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian coastal territory.
Israeli warships were shadowing the Moldovan-flagged Amalthea, carrying 2,000 tonnes of food and [...]

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Egypt to open two consulates in Iraq – FM

by RAINman on 07. Jul, 2010 in General

By Agence France Presse (AFP)
The Daily Star (Lebanon) – Wednesday, July 07, 2010
CAIRO: Egypt, whose head of mission in Baghdad was killed in 2005, is to open two consulates in Iraq, Foreign Minister Ahmad Abou al-Gheit announced on Tuesday.
He told reporters that President Hosni Mubarak has approved the opening of an Egyptian consulate in [...]

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Egypt ‘victim of police brutality’ becomes protest symbol

by RAINman on 17. Jun, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Egyptian activists take their protest against police’s beating of Khaled Said to death to social networking websites.
By Jailan Zayan – CAIRO
Middle East Online  - 15 June 2010

A 28-year-old man reportedly beaten to death by police in Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria last week has become the latest symbol of police brutality among tech-savvy Egyptian activists.
Posters of [...]

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Prayer for the health of the rais

by RAINman on 27. May, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Both Obama and Netanyahu understand that Israel’s most important ally in the Middle East is Egypt, and they are doing everything possible to keep it that way.
By Aluf Benn
Haaretz - 26 May 2010
Of all the world’s statesmen, the one closest to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. They have met four times [...]

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Egypt emergency law linked to poll abuse

by RAINman on 18. May, 2010 in Analysis

Middle East Online – 13 May 2010

Rights groups warn Egyptian emergency law may be used to influence outcome of elections.

CAIRO – Egyptian human rights groups on Thursday protested over the renewal of a decades-old emergency law, fearing it could be used to influence the outcome of elections in Egypt over the next two years.

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Salafi intolerance threatens Sufis

by RAINman on 12. May, 2010 in Opinion

Egypt’s peaceful Muslims are being denied religious freedoms as the influence of conservative Salafism grows

Baher Ibrahim
guardian.co.uk – 10 May 2010
Whenever religious freedom is discussed in Egypt, the topic inevitably turns to the status of the Christian Copts. Thousands of articles have been written about Egypt’s Copts and how they are denied their religious [...]

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