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Baheyya: the "slow-motion
socio-political
transformation
is proceeding beautifully..."
Kifaya
leader
arrested...
More,
with
reactions, from Reuters... And
AFP...
Plus
latest
developments from AP...
All eyes on Mahalla...
Prime
Minister Nazif plays
politics
in the boiling riot of
Mahallla... Photos of
Nazif
addressing the
crowd...
And the
protests
continue,
leaving two
dead...
Photo...
More....
Did you know
it was election day?
BBC: "Voting is
sluggish
in local elections which
the government is sure to
win..." VOA: "Most polling stations
in Cairo appeared to be almost
empty...
"
AFP:
"Polls closed with
little
excitement..." Brotherhood
boycotts...
Photo
of a ballot box...
Claim game...
April
6 strike roundups by
AFP,
IHT,
VOA,
and
AP.
Reuters
goes
to Mahalla... LA Times calls it
a "whimper..."
Professor says don't
underestimate...
AFP says
cyber-dissidents
aim
for new protest date...
AFP is
counting
the days on the government's promise to
resolve economic woes...
IPS
examines
the issue deeply... Building
thousands
of bakeries...
Earlier:
AP takes a
spin
on the bread crisis...
Clear
priority... BBC tackles the
president's
decision
to bring in the army to make
bread lines disappear...
AFP's
take...
BBC in the bread
line...Man
shot while
waiting
in line for bread...
Meanwhile, AFP looks at
rising prices
and
salaries that stay the same...
How big
will Sunday's strike
be?
10 more
brotherhood
arrests...
AP
reports on
more,
and LA Times profiles a
would-be
candidate...
Protests
over 100 brotherhood members
detained... CS Monitor says
government is hounding
moderates...
HRW
critiques
the elections...
Brotherhood military trial postponed
again...
Earlier: Reuters
reporter finds herself
harassed
while covering brotherhood
attempts to run in local elections..
Local lead up heats up... Upset
about US comments on local election
arrests and human rights.... reactions
from
AP
and
AFP...
5 more wanna-be candidate
arrested...
Warnings of
violence...
Not many brotherhood candidates allowed
to
register...
Luxor
open air museum plan
generating
violent protests...
BBC looks
deeper
at the doctors' struggle for higher
wages...
Photos...
Earlier:
Docs
do minimum wage protest...
Photos...
Earlier:
Doctors
wont
strike over wages after all...
Photos
of professors' strike...
Earlier:
Triple bit... LA Times looks into doctors and
their
minimum
wage struggle...
Another
Ayman Nour appeal
rejected...
Diplo-shift...
New
ambassador to Washington
named;
will take over post in September.
Tough
times... AFP says 90 percent of Islamist
hopefuls
barred
from vote... Many brotherhood candidates
in
hiding
to avoid arrest... Thousands
protest
obstructions... White House
criticizes...
Earlier: Run-around time... Reuters has
details on the difficulties of
becoming
a local council election candidate...
Meanwhile, more,
with
numbers, from AP... And more below...
1000s
protest in Tanta, Alexandria,
and
Port Said... 17
more
arrests...
Brotherhood to contest elections
from
jail...
More
top
brotherhood arrests... More
details
from Bloomberg... Leader's daughter
interviewed
by the Guardian... and a
passionate related blog
post...
Likely brotherhood candidates
arrested...
More
from AFP...
More
brotherhood arrests...
Look out local councils...
Brotherhood
vows
to stand defiant against a
government crackdown and field
candidates in the April 8
vote...
More...
Meanwhile, 70
more
senior members and potential
election candidates from the
banned group arrested... Group's
leader says elections
should
be about fighting corruption...
Earlier: Brotherhood trial
postponed
a month...
Over 2,000
university students
protest
against Islamist
leaders' military trial..
Photo.. Reuters:
Editor of Muslim Brotherhood
website "remanded
in custody for after two recent meetings
with foreign human rights activists..."
New
US ambassador pledges to push
for civil liberties,
but
not for withholding aid...
Earlier:
New US
ambassador to Egypt
named...
Condi uses a waiver to
release
$100 million in controversial aid...
Ready for this?
LA Times
predicts
a tense labor spring...
AFP
covers
the Mahalla minimum wage strike...
Earlier:
Photos from
recent Mahalla workers protest...
13
brotherhood students
detained?
Earlier:
Police
detain
more Islamists before vote...
36
more brotherhood members
arrested...
Meanwhile, US anti-war activist
Cindy Sheehan joined a protest
seeking the
support
of the first lady in ending a military
trial of members of the country's
largest Islamic organization.
Photo...
More...
Critical
Post column on
possibilities
for change...
Court
sentences
18 to jail over migrant deaths...
Fine
but
no prison for Jazeera
journalist... Earlier:
Jazeera
reporter in trouble
again...
Released...
Throwing the book at
bad
police...
A
court
ruled
that 12 Coptic Christians who had
converted to Islam could return to
their old faith... Meanwhile,
new
Bahai ruling
pleases
human rights groups...
Railway
workers not
happy
with new rules...
Photos...
Shutting
down
a Kifaya protest on subsidies...
Analysis
of the Bush-Mubarak meeting from
Harvard...
NY Times
still
analyzing Bush's Egypt visit...
How the press
reacted...San
Fran also
analyzes...
As does the
Atlantic...
More
details...
Runaway
parliamentarian...
Question of status...
Baltimore
Sun is impressed by the fancy resort
where the Bush-Mubarak meeting
took
place... AP looks
beyond
the hug on the tarmac...
Mubarak
greets Bush
warmly
but doesn't agree with his ideas,
analysts say...Bush thanks Mubarak
6
times... There are photos
here...
Meanwhile, democracy activists are
dismayed,
and an anti-Bush protest takes
place in front of the
parliament...
Earlier: Shifting sands... With
Bush set to spend just four hours in
Sharm El-Sheikh, Reuters sees
rifts
in the official Egypt-US
relationship... Meanwhile, the
Muslim Brotherhood says the US president
is
unwelcome... Plus, pics from an
anti-Bush protest
at
the press syndicate...
Ruling out
a
permanent
U.S. presence across Egypt-Gaza border
Busy intersection, complex interests...
Visiting
appropriations committee Congressman
proposes aid
compromise...
Foreign
Ministry and parliament continue to
loudly
resist
any cuts in USAID... Tough statements
blaming Israel for lobbying for
the cuts,
and
expressing confidence that Bush will
veto any... Meanwhile, Olmert
tries to
soften
the tension...
Baheyya's blistering
insight
into the tax collectors strike and its
organizer...
Bedouins
protest
economic conditions...
Alex building collapse
reveals
deep corruption....
Death toll at
35...
Earlier:Alex
building death toll up to
28...
Alexandria apartment building
collapse...
10
dead...
End of VOA democracy analysis finally gets
beyond the typical backtrack formula,
towards a more
nuanced
perspective...
Vivid
on-the-scene coverage of Gezirit El-Dahab
farmers fight from the Washington
Post...
42
brotherhood members
jailed
in Fayoum...
Military
court drops
major
charges from brotherhood defendants...
More
interpretation
from Reuters...
Stabbing at justice? 18 people
charged
with manslaughter over the drowning
deaths of at least 21 migrants in two
shipwrecks off the Italian coast last
month...
More
from AFP...
Earlier:
More
student brotherhood members
detained...
Reports on
Muslim
Brotherhood arrests
here
and
here...
Washington
Post columnist highlights cyber
activism...
Riot in
Qalyoubia over MDP lawmaker with
alleged
connections to fraudster...
Striking
real estate tax workers
seek
Mubarak intervention...
Earlier: CS Monitor
looks
at the danger of widespread labor
strikes...
Orchestrated contradictions?
Is this really as
much
of a Presidential-Prime
Ministerial spar over ending
subsidies as news agency AFP
makes it out to be? Plus, more
in Arabic as Wafd also notices
on
zahma.com...
Investors
ponder
post-Mubarak scenarios...
Tax
agency workers protest for higher
wages...More
from
Pravda...
Candidate
vigil commemorating 2
years
of Ayman Nour in jail...
arrests
continue...
25 more
members
arrested...
Brotherhood leaders
barred
from traveling...
Brotherhood members
arrested...
Earlier:
Carnegie
comments
on the brotherhood's platform...
Earlier: CS Monitor
critical
of
Muslim
brotherhood platform...
AP highlights
negative
reactions ...Meanwhile,
brotherhood prayer meeting broken
up
by
the police...
Longest police torture conviction
emerges...
Another
confused
island on the Nile....
Summing it up...
More post-NDP
summit
analysis...
Ahram Weekly explores Gamal Mubarak's
position post
NDP conference...
AFP takes the
Gamal
hint...
and AP tries to figure out what
the military
might
want...
AP
says NDP conference finds a
discreet
way to help raise Gamal Mubarak's
chances of running for president...
Gamal doesn't
get
secretary-general job... He
comments
to the press... Earlier:
Mubarak
emphasizes
social justice at NDP
conference's conclusion...
Party admits that reform benefits are
not
reaching the poor, urges patience...
Party
politics...
Mubarak elected party
chairman as NDP
pledges
to address have-have not gap...
Young members of the ruling
NDP and other parties take a
tour of a small West Virginia
town,
trying
to learn more about local media
and politics...
Sectarian
clash
in Kosheh... Earlier:
37 behind
bars
after violent sectarian incident...
Another sectarian
incident...
A BBC correspondent's clever
ramble
on democracy...
Astute
analysis
of the current political
situation...
Christian rights spokesman
detained...
IHT says
succession
won't
be discussed at the big NDP
conference...
Bitterlemons
looks
at five views of Egypt after Mubarak...
Earlier:
Washington Post does a Gamal succession
story on its front page...
Uncharted territories...
AP
discusses
succession...
Now Wafd
party chief
gets
a jail sentence...
The
Ibrahim Eissa case digs deep into
whether rumors fuelled an economic
drop...
More
lawsuits... The Saadeddin Ibrahim
saga
continues...
Complicated case... Latest on the
students in
trouble
in the US...
The
US Secretary's
soft
internal politics jab...
More on the plot to bomb
Ibn
Khaldoun center... Earlier:
Did
Islamists
want
to blow up Saadeddin Ibrahim's Ibn
Khaldoun center headquarters?
Reuters interprets the
crackdowns on the press,
brotherhood and human rights
groups as signs of
nervousness...
San Francisco Chronicle tries to
analyze the political
moment...
Emphasizing the
negatives
in the latest US religious
freedom report...
Trying to
stop
more
strikes from taking place...
Middle East Report calls Mahlla
strike results major
victory
for workers...
Earlier: Can't feel it?
AP
goes in-depth on the Mahalla strike,
putting it in
perspective;
as in, the country may be getting kudos
for economic reforms, but the average
worker isn't feeling the improvement...
Lots of strike photos
here
and
here...
Erian
and other brotherhood leaders
ordered
released...
This year's Ramadan
brotherhood banquet
banned..
Earlier:
Brotherhood leader El-Arian
still
in custody... Amnesty
worried
about brotherhood
military trial detainee leader's
health, speaks up about
government
treatment
of the greoup...
No freedom of speech?
Brotherhood parliamentarian in
trouble
for calling assembly "rubber
stamp..."
Earlier:
More brotherhood
cases
surface...
Time tries to
interpret
the escalation... 2
brotherhood MPs
arrested...
Brotherhood -- military trial
resumes
amidst new arrests...
Detained include
top
leadership
of the group, in yet another escalation
by the government... Much more
in Arabic on
zahma.com...
Earlier:
Middle East report overview of
where the government-brotherhood
relation
is today... Brotherhood members
arrested
at summer camp in Balteem...
Earlier:
Authorities
barred
human rights groups, the media
and around 60 defense lawyers
from the closed military trial
of Muslim Brotherhood officials...
VOA
on the Ghazl Al-Mahalla strikes...
Earlier: Giant Mahalla labor strike gets
coverage
from Russian media... Reuters
pitches
in...
Legal rights group
being
closed down by the government...
Bedouins threaten to
block
border with Israel... Earlier:
Reuters covers a
peaceful
Bedouin protest....
Pravda has
more...
"One of the key witnesses and
co-defendants in the trial of
opposition leader Ayman Nour
was found
hanged
in his prison cell ..."
Earlier: Ayman Nour release
request
rejected
again... Condi comments
on
Nour... Her lack of democracy
promotion disheartens
some...
Magazine suggests pressure to
democratize will
grow,
with or without America pushing
for it..
A BBC correspondent has a
memorable
experience
while reporting a robbery at a
Cairo police station...
Daily Star's Rami Khouri is
harsh
on realities...
Saadeddin Ibrahim writes another
scathing anti-Mubarak piece in the
Post -- and admits he may be a
little
worried
about coming back to Cairo... Saad's
plight
highlighted
by AP...
'MSNBC wonders whether German tourists
will soon be
asking
"hotels
for information on why emergency powers
have been in place since the early
1980s?" Earlier:
June 2008 end of emergency
state,
even
if new anti-terror law not
passed by then...
"Family of a 13-year-old boy who died
after being released from custody are
suing
the police for allegedly
torturing their son to death..."
Official
denials...
Earlier: Siwa police torture
accusations to be
investigated...
Earlier:
Official
investigation of
torture at an Alexandria
police station...
Step by step...
AFP reports that the "ruling
party is to
elect
its leader for the first time in
a move geared towards eventually
offering the President's son the
country's top job..."
Sinai Bedouin protests
turn
violent...
More...
Everyone's analyzing...
BBC takes
note
of the growing strike
movement, while blogger Baheyya
looks at the recent rise of
protests
demanding
water and other rights...
Middle East report overview of
where the government-brotherhood
relation
is today
Brotherhood members
arrested
at summer camp in Balteem...
Earlier:
Authorities
barred
human rights groups, the media
and around 60 defense lawyers
from the closed military trial
of Muslim Brotherhood officials...
Earlier
AFP
story...
Amnesty wants brotherhood
military tribunal
open
for observation...
Guardian looks at the government
versus the brotherhood
story...
New brotherhood
arrests...
Earlier:
Reuters says
50,
AFP
45
Muslim brotherhood
members detained... Earlier:
Number of
arrested Muslim Brotherhood members
continues to
rise...
More from
BBC...
78 more brotherhood members
detained...
Meanwhile, trying to
disqualify
the group's Shura
council election candidates...
Brotherhood military
trial
resumes...
Human rights groups
barred...
Trial postponed
till
July 15... 52 others from the
group are
arrested...
Plus: Brotherhood blogger
released.
Another "sort-of"
meeting
between the US and
the brotherhood ...
Photo...
Meanwhile:
Beginnings
of a crackdown on Muslim
brotherhood Shura
candidates?
June 2008 end of emergency
state,
even
if new anti-terror law not
passed by then...
Condi comments
on
Nour... Her lack of democracy
promotion disheartens
some...
Ayman Nour release
request
rejected
again...
Step by step...
AFP reports that the "ruling
party is to
elect
its leader for the first time in
a move geared towards eventually
offering the President's son the
country's top job..."
Sinai Bedouin protests
turn
violent...
More...
Everyone's analyzing...
BBC takes
note
of the growing strike
movement, while blogger Baheyya
looks at the recent rise of
protests
demanding
water and other rights...
Meanwhile, IHT reports that
"over
700
[people] protested a government
plan to evict them from their
homes in order to improve
security on the border between
Egypt and the Gaza Strip..."
Plus, photos
from
last week's postal workers
strike...
More DC
trips...
Abul-Gheit
says Cheney and Rice are
against
withholding aid...
Crucial timing...
Carnegie
scholars tell the US not to
give
up on democracy promotion
in Egypt... (pdf)...
Storm in a teacup?
VOA says White
House is not in favor of
withholding
aid... More tough words from the
Egyptian ambassador to
Washington on the US threat
to
withhold
aid...
Earlier:
Retro pressure?
US may delay delivery of $200
million in military aid
until
Cairo "improves its human rights
record," Reuters reports.
Meanwhile, IOL is the quickest
to report Egypt's reaction, via
Abul Gheit's
angry
remarks...
Siwa police torture
accusations to be
investigated...
Earlier:
Official
investigation of
torture at an Alexandria
police station...
"Military court
barred
former U.S. attorney general
Ramsey Clark from observing
a trial session for 40
opposition Islamists on charges
that include money-laundering
and terrorism..." More from
AP....
Salama Ahmed Salama has a
private
conversation with
the Prime Minister...
Photos from a textile
workers
protest... Plus: Helping
journalists
cover
labor strikes... Earlier:
Going
deeper
into the labor strikes issue...
After run-off, NDP
gets
84 out of 88 Shura Council
seats...
Straw poll...
Run off elections for
some
Shura seats...
The "ruling party
won
69 out of 88 seats outright" in
Monday's parliamentary
election while the
opposition Muslim Brotherhood
got none... More, with
differing figures, from
AFP
and
AP...
Meanwhile, US troubled by
reports that
some
couldn't vote... Plus, CS
Monitor analysis
takes
the NDP's Mohamed Kamal to
task... Earlier:
Calm or clash?
Some confusion, lots of
disinterest,
and
a little bit of violence at the
Shura Council elections... Meanwhile, more on how
some were prevented from voting
from the
Washington
Post...
Some analysis in the
LA
Times... Plus,
BBC has a
look,
and a Pittsburgh paper's
take...
Uncertain days...
A Dubai banker analyzes
the eco-political situation,
with
details...
Analysis says Egypt
is
taking steps forward, then steps
backward, on democracy...
The democratic juice...
NY Times ruminates politics
over
a glass of sugarcane...
Controversial
comments
from Saadeddin Ibrahim...
More
dissident arrests....
Nour
may
get court decision in two
weeks... Earlier:
Another
two weeks added to Ayman Nour's
jail time... Earlier:
Not happy about Bush's
remark...
Nour will
not be released at this
time...
yet...
More from
AFP... Ayman Nour's wife blasts
the US for
abandoning
democracy...
Another
Sadat relative
expelled
from parliament..
Real opposition?
Former MDP bigwig Osama
Ghazali Harb's new
Democratic Front
party
gets official approval...
Interesting book club discussion about
the
future
of Egyptian politics....
Repentant Jihad
extremists
released
from jail...
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