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Nov 2, 2011

EGYPT News, Nov 02, 2011


Lax security stirs up pessimism over Egypt's parliamentary elections
Ahram Online
Egyptian anti-riot policemen block the way in front of a polling station in El-Dakahlia,Egypt, during 2010 elections. (File Photo: AP) The eagerly-awaited parliamentaryelections will finally give the answer to the question of which of Egypt's ...
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Army role eyed as Egypt election campaign begins
Reuters India
By Tamim Elyan and Marwa Awad CAIRO (Reuters) - Opponents of Islamists declared a "life and death" battle for Egypt's future as official campaigning began on Wednesday for parliamentary elections seen as vital for restoring stability after eight months ...
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Egypt's military leadership amends election law
Al Jazeera
Egypt's military rulers signed a deal with political parties promising to reform the country's election and emergency laws. So why isn't the agreement being welcomed?
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Liberal Egyptian Bloc launches its 2011 election campaign
Ahram Online
The liberal Egyptian Bloc officially launched its parliamentary electoral campaign Tuesday evening at the 5-star Shepherd Hotel in downtown Cairo. The Bloc is comprised of three political parties: the liberal Free Egyptians, the Egyptian Social ...
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Revolution Continues Alliance launches its electoral bid
Ahram Online
The Revolution Continues Alliance (RCA) launched its parliamentaryelection campaign Wednesday during a press conference at the Journalists' Syndicate in downtown Cairo. Spokespeople for the left-leaning alliance briefed reporters on the number of ...
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Ahram Online
Arab Spring Turns to Winter of Islamist States in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya
Human Events
Such declarations are reminiscent of Iran's mullahs, and may explain the increase in anti-Israeli violence, such as six militant attacks on Egypt'sgas line to Israel and attacks on the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Non-MuslimEgyptians are singled out for ...
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Human Events
Tension between judges, lawyers defused following meeting with PM
Daily News Egypt
By Omnia Al Desoukie / Daily News Egypt CAIRO: Lawyers and judges agreed to end an escalating crisis that led to the closure of several courthouses, following a meeting with Prime Minister Essam Sharaf late Tuesday. Sharaf met with judges and lawyers ...
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Bridging the gap between Copts and state
Arab News
Because of the anger and resentment emanating from the Oct. 9 attacks, a growing movement within the Coptic community is calling for a boycott of the upcomingelections. But to not take part in Egypt's first free election after 30 years of fraud and...
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Naek for enhanced cooperation between Pakistan and Egypt
Associated Press of Pakistan
Egyptian Envoy briefed Naek about upcoming elections in Egypt on 28th November andelections of Shura Council to be held on 29th November, 2011. He added that holding of first elections in country after Egyptian revolution is matter of pride for every ...
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Israel, US, want Abbas to be full-fledged traitor
Tehran Times
The growing good chemistry between Hamas and Cairo is undoubtedly an auspicious development. The upcoming elections in Egypt, slated to start on 28 November, is expected to produce pleasant surprises if the nationalist and Islamist forces achieve ...
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Sense of optimism that something can be done
gulfnews.com
By Francis Matthew, Editor-at-Large Despite deep worries about how theelections in Tunisia (last weekend) and Egypt (later this month) will turn out, and how Libya's constitutional process will handle a transition to civilian popular government, ...
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gulfnews.com
Scholar: 'Hard to say' if Arab Spring is positive
St. Louis Jewish Light
We are also deeply worried about Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. The concern is not just how well they might do in the Egyptian elections, but signs that they, as in Iran, might be penetrating the Egyptian military, and that would be very negative ...
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Quote of the day
Peninsula On-line
He also congratulated the people of Tunisia for holding free and fair democratic electionsrecently. He also lauded Egypt for taking to the path of democracy. The Emir said the governments in the region should talk to their people for the required ...
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This week on Marketplace Middle East
CNN
As concerns spread over the economic fall out of the Arab Spring, all eyes are onEgypt's future direction. Investor confidence has been dampened by a shaky political climate, while ratings agency, Moody's, downgraded the North African country citing ...
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Wednesday's papers: Political parties meet over constitution, imprisoned ...
Al-Masry Al-Youm
Independent newspaper Al-Shorouk reports that political parties and groups met with government representatives over the course of three hours to discuss basic constitutional principals and standards for the committee that will draft Egypt's next ...
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Maybe we really can't wait!
The Moral Liberal
If he can add Syria's Assad to Egypt's Mubarak jail cell, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate may be close to match President Bush Sr. who swept clean the Eastern European dictatorships. Unfortunately for the current commander-in-chief, his constituency is ...
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The Moral Liberal
Other ideas on boosting voter turnout
InsideHalton.com
My worry in Canada is that more and more people are opting out of the most basic duties of citizenship, something that is valued highly in countries where people are dying for the right to vote (see Libya, Egypt and other Arab nations who have ...
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eTaiwan News
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte, newly returned from his disastrous expedition to Egypt, seizes power in France, making himself one of three consuls. 1803 - A French expedition sent to put down rebellious Haiti surrenders, and the island declares ...
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Democracy is a fundamental contributor to quality of life
Waterloo Record
With the rise of the Arab Spring movement, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are all closer to achieving a society for the people, not for social elites. Most recently, the election in Tunisia brought forth mixed reviews. Personally, I was elated at the ...
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Why Human Rights In Iran Are Getting Worse
The Atlantic
This was better than most countries in the region, ahead of Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and even Turkey. However, the UN report notes that the application of certain laws is a barrier to gender equality in Iran. For instance, a woman's worth ...
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The Atlantic
Request on the Parliament's Floor: Release the Leaders of Iran's Green Movement
Payvand
... the 2009 presidential elections. Mousavi and Karoubi, along with their wives, were arrested about 9 months ago after they requested a permit from the ministry of the interior to hold a demonstration in support for the people of Tunisia and Egypt. ...
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The Audacity of Obama's Big Book Promo
Heritage.org (blog)
According to the Times, the US embassy in Egypt, for instance, spent $28636 in August 2009 for copies of Dreams from My Father, on top of an order of more than $9000 for the book six weeks earlier. About the same time, the US embassy in South Korea ...
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Heritage.org (blog)
Convergence 2.0: How Public TV Can Save Democracy
PBS MediaShift
In 2010, Tunisians shot mobile videos of nascent protests, which were soon featured on Al Jazeera, sending enraged citizens in both Tunisia and Egypt to activist Twitter and Facebook sites. In one case, we got the Tea Party, in the other the Arab ...
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World news in brief
STLtoday.com
... including a ground operation, an Israeli military official said Tuesday, as Egypt worked on a truce and said Israel had agreed to delay stepping up its response. Kyrgyzelection winner says US base poses risk • Kyrgyzstan's president-elect said ...
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(VIDEO) Ellison Foe Releases Graphic Anti-Islam Ad
Patch.com
The video shows images of a destroyed church in Kirkuk, Iraq; dead Christians in Egypt; and beheaded bodies in Indonesia. It juxtaposes Ellison swearing an oath on the Koran with a presumed terrorist holding a Koran and an assault rifle. ...
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A top objective for Clinton's IT guru
The Day Weekly Digest
On the other hand, the IT guru noted, social media helped spread disenchantment with the government in Northern Africa, overthrow Ben-Ali in Tunisia and Mubarak in Egypt. “But it is a far more difficult job to establish – via the Internet – a procedure ...
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Summary of the American and International Press on the Libyan Revolution ...
Tripoli Post
Referring to the promised election of a governing body this year, he added, “If the military councils start to extend and expand themselves, they will be a replacement for a national assembly.” Some point to neighbouring Egypt, where the council of ...
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Today in History - Nov. 2
mysask.com (press release)
In 1994, at least 475 people were killed in a freak chain of events in Egypt during torrential rains. Most died when a fuel train derailed on a rain-loosened track. The fuel was ignited by electrical wires and floodwaters carried "winds of fire" ...
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This Day in History - November 2
Jamaica Observer
1956: Gaza, Egypt falls to British in Suez War. 1962: US President John F Kennedy announces an end to the Cuban missile crisis, saying the Soviet Union is dismantling bases in Cuba. 1963: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated by his ...
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Mideast peace unlikely before 2012 US vote
Khaleej Times
In the meantime, he said, it is crucial to maintain the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza and preserve the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty which has come under strain followingEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow. It is also important for the US ...
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Mosaic News – 10/28/11: Post-Election Violence Erupts in Tunisia ...
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0 Mosaic News 10/28/11: Post Election Violence Erupts in Tunisia Anger erupts in Tunisia's disenfranchised Sidi Bouzid, protestors in Cairo's Tahrir denounce Egypt'sruling junta, Pakistani demonstrators demand an immediate halt to US ...
Bid EN for Senate
Lax security stirs up pessimism over Egypt's parliamentary elections
Egyptian anti-riot policemen block the way in front of a polling station in El-Dakahlia,Egypt, during 2010 elections. (File Photo: AP) The eagerly-awaited ...
english.ahram.org.eg/...-/Lax-security-stirs-up-pessimism-over...
Egypt.com News - Egypt News - Parliamentary elections race hots ...
news.egypt.com/en ... Parliamentary elections race hots up in Cairo as accusations fly ... The Egyptian Bloc and the Freedom Party also had candidates of the ...
news.egypt.com/english/permalink/59467.html
Army role eyed as Egypt election campaign begins
By Tamim Elyan and Marwa Awad CAIRO (Reuters) - Opponents of Islamists declared a "life and death" battle for Egypt's future as official campaigning began ...
in.reuters.com/article/2011/11/.../idINIndia-60278620111102
Egypt | expats | voting | rights | election
Cairo court: Egyptian expats allowed to vote overseas ... Egyptians head to the polls on November 28 to elect a new lower house of parliament ... is the case with expatriates of other countries," protester Abdul Gafour told Gulf News this week. ...
www.globalpost.com/.../cairo-court-egyptian-expats-allowed-v...
Journalists Syndicate elections | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News ...
Head of Libya's NTC to visit Egypt today; Police destroy 4 smuggling tunnels at ... A journalist casts her vote in Journalists syndicate elections, Cairo, October 26 ...
www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/509029
67 percent of Copts to refrain from voting in ... - Daily News Egypt
CAIRO: A poll conducted by the Egyptian Union for Human Rights found that 67 ...Egypt's Copts will refrain from voting in the upcoming parliamentary elections ...
www.thedailynewsegypt.com/.../67-percent-of-copts-to-refrain...
Will Egypt's Military Ruler Seek Election? - Middle East - News ...
A previously unknown political group has started a campaign for Egypt's ... ago when he was seen in mufti walking Cairo's streets without his security detail. ...
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149110
News - Egypt slips ahead of elections; Q3 earnings lift ADCB - Arab ...
CAIRO/DUBAI - Egypt's benchmark eased on caution ahead of elections, while strong earnings helped lift shares in Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank on ...
https://www.arabfinance.com/News/newsdetails.aspx?Id...
Islamist Unity Urged Before Egypt Elections - Africa - News ...
Islamist unity urged before Egypt elections. ... OnIslam & News Agencies ... CAIRO – A host of Muslim thinkers have called for unity among Islamist groups, amid ...
www.onislam.net/.../454384-islamist-unity-urged-before-egyp...
Army role eyed as Egypt election campaign begins - Yahoo! News
Read 'Army role eyed as Egypt election campaign begins' on Yahoo! News. CAIRO(Reuters) - Opponents of Islamists declared a "life and death" battle for ...
news.yahoo.com/army-role-eyed-egypt-election-campaign-be...
Pakistan News Watch - Egypt Islamists threaten mass demos over ...
CAIRO: Political parties from across Egypt's political spectrum threatened to boycottelections scheduled to start in November unless the country's military rulers ...
news.one.com.pk/.../egypt-islamists-threaten-mass-demos-over...
Egypt's political forces ready for elections as registration ends ...
CAIRO: The extended period for candidate registration for Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections closed yesterday, moving the nation one step closer to its ...
bikyamasr.com/.../egypt’s-political-forces-ready-for-elections-...
Egypt: Doubts about Upcoming Elections | Pulitzer Center
Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Cairo, Egypt ... living in Cairo who took part in early voting on October 20 in Tunisia's first elections .... The media crackdown in Egypt is worsening as military forces raid news organizations and shut down broadcasts. ...
pulitzercenter.org/.../cairo-egypt-elections-parliament-supreme...
MIDEAST STOCKS-Egypt slips ahead of elections; Q3 earnings lift ...
CAIRO/DUBAI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Egypt's benchmark eased on caution ahead ofelections, while strong earnings helped ... News by Country ... Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak will commence on Nov. ...
af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFL5E7LQ3SP20111026
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