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The Daily Star Beirut October 27, 2011 01:09 PM STRASBOURG: Five Arab Spring activists have won the European parliament’s Sakharov prize awarded to campaigners for freedom, a parliamentary source said Thursday. The laureats are Mohamed Bouazizi ofTunisia, awarded posthumously, Egyptian militant Asmaa Mahfouz, Libyan dissident Ahmed al-Zubair Ahmed al-Sanusi, Syrian lawyer Razan Zeitouneh [...]
Gulf News, October 15, 2011 The worst thing that could befallEgypttoday is division such as we are witnessing between the country’s Coptic and Muslim citizens. Against the same cruel dictatorship they stood united inLiberation Square(Midan Al Tahrir) demanding that former president Hosni Mubarak leave and his regime be removed. For political revolution to be [...]
Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored and edited numerous publications spanning a period of five decades. His most recent book is Achieving Human Rights (2009). He is currently serving [...]
Sharif Abdel Kouddous The Nation October 21, 2011 Cairo, Egypt Iman, a 24-year-old student atCairoUniversity, smiled as she walked out of the Tunisian embassy in Zamalek and proudly held up her left forefinger, which had been stained with purple ink. “We are happy,” she says. “Everyone who came to vote is happy.” [...]
News24 2011-10-17 15:30 Cairo- A senior Egyptian Justice Ministry official says ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s two sons have an estimated $340 million in Swiss bank accounts. Assem al-Gohary says Swiss authorities are investigating whether one of the sons, Alaa, was involved in money laundering along with other ex-regime figures. At home, Mubarak and [...]
Egypt is no stranger to religious tensions – but where do Christians fit into its revolution? The Independent Tuesday, 11 October 2011 The statistics are easy, the future is not. Up to 20 million Copts inEgypt, 10 per cent of the population, the largest Christian community in the region. But President Anwar Sadat once [...]
GÖKHAN BACIK g.bacik@todayszaman.com TODAY’S ZAMAN Turkey 09 October 2011, Sunday Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the ultimate mission of the Egyptian army is no longer the protection of the homeland. Instead, its new mission is taming the Arab Spring. Many things have changed inEgyptso far: Hosni Mubarak is gone, and [...]
BBC 4 October 2011 Last updated at 12:18 GMT The family of a jailed Egyptian blogger have said his health is seriously at risk, as a military tribunal adjourned a court hearing for three weeks. Blogger Maikel Nabil has been on a hunger strike since 23 August and according to his brother, he [...]
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