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flashback
Here
comes Al-Fankoosh
What do a Korean
brewery and
an old Adel Imam film have in common?
January 14, 2002
STAR
BAROMETER
Was
Barry White Egyptian?
CRITIC
Whose voice?
VIEW
FROM CAIRO
Modern parking
DISPATCH
Gates in
Cairo
LETTTERS
TO THE EDITOR
PIC
OF THE WEEK
Glitter alley
WINNERS SO
FAR:116
CAIRO BY
NIGHT
Tranquil
smoke
CITY
SNAPSHOT
Summer
views
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
A
look at the ancient modern library
RECENT
WEB LOG
MAR
19-NOV 27
Kefaya, Ahli perfect season, most beautiful mummy ever, El-Nabawi defends himself, Putin, Chinese cars, the Mubarak interview, lots of foreign, Israeli pressure, Shaaban, judges, professors, jailed journalists, Ayman Nour, imitating
Dubai...
MAR
17
Dina
Powell and the obsessed Post
MAR
15
Egyptomania,
Bright Star and Azhar Park
MAR
13
Protest
nation
EARLIER
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TODAY'S TOP NEWS
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BREAKING!
cairolive.com
in today's LA Times...
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the whole story
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DOMESTIC POLITICS
Final
parliamentary tally
26
percent overall turnout.... Ruling
NDP gets 72
percent -- or 311-- of the 432 seats... 112 seats went to
independent candidates, including 88 seats to the banned but
usually tolerated Muslim Brotherhood... Secular opposition parties
got nine seats: six for the Wafd party; two for the Tagammu; and
one for the Ghad...
Media still
focusing on the Muslim Brotherhood: Time takes an inside
look at the brotherhood's nerve
center... Newly
elected Islamist members of parliament are open to dialogue
with members of the US
Congress without involving the Cairo government. Meanwhile, the
group's leader Mohammed Mehdi Akef said the brotherhood does
not recognise Israel... His plan: "We will not
combat Israel using its own means, we will do it our way. If 70
million Egyptians reach a high level of education and wealth,
Israel will be powerless and will not be able to do
anything."
Full
Arabic
coverage
on zahma.com
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PLUS
BREAKING NEWS ON ZAHMA.COM....
Wafd ecstatic
about Ihab
Talaat woes...
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WEB
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DOMESTIC POLITICS
Ayman Nour still
awaiting sentencing...
3rd
round of parliamentary polls
Polarized
politics
Analysts
are providing varied takes on the elections and what they mean... First
of all, there's dreamy rhetoric
by the ruling NDP about how Egyptians are living in the midst of a
marvelous awakening... AP speculates
about what the Muslim Brotherhood might do with their newfound
power... The Guardian argues that strong brotherhood results will reverberate
across the region... A Daily Star commentary outlines why people
should come
to terms with the brotherhood's gains... Other
analysts say politics have been polarized....
The Washington Post looks at how the shift
from secular to religious opposition occured... The
brotherhood itself, meanwhile, says it's ready
to talk to Washington... The US says it's ready
as well. The US State Department
keeps up its wishy
washy talk about how violent the elections were...
The Post is far more forceful, calling the last days of the
election shameful...
Saad Ibrahim also pens some tough
words in the LA Times... Some AP
analysis
of the violence and what it means about Mubarak's commitment to
democracy... NY Times wonders who used live
ammunition... Finally,
Islam Online looks at how the press
covered the results...
Don't
miss
Latest
election news
on
zahma.com
Chaotic
conclusion
Eight dead. Dozens
injured. The last day of month-long parliamentary elections was a
day of chaos. There were even officers on rooftops preventing
voters from climbing in through poll station windows, after they were stopped
from casting their votes at the doors. It ended with the Muslim
Brotherhood still winning even more seats, bringing their total to somewhere
in the high 80s. The ruling NDP also looks to have secured more than
the two-thirds majority it needs to control the assembly.
Meanwhile, the media is really pushing this battle hard; here's a breathless paragraph
from AP:
"In the northern Sinai town of El-Arish, police blocked
Brotherhood voters from polling places Wednesday and many fought
back with a hail of stones and firebombs, cornering police in the
narrow streets of the Mediterranean city." Similar stories
are also told by AFP
and Reuters.
The Washington
Post is on the scene in one town, while blogger Baheyya
provides a rather dramatic narrative overall.
In the
Guardian, novelist Ahdaf Soueif recounts
a long hot summer of protests and changing politics in Cairo...
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TAREK
ATIA'S
WEB LOG
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FOREIGN
Egypt has started
intensive contacts with the Iraqi authorities to retrieve
the body of an Egyptian hostage who was shot dead by his
kidnappers and whose body was found yesterday...
New Israel threats
over Gaza border...
Egypt raised
security along the Suez
Canal on Friday after receiving information about
the possibility of attacks by al Qaeda on ships in the
strategic waterway...
Israel
issues Sinai travel warning...
MISC
Having separate
TV stations for Muslims and Christians is part of the problem...
Islamist web
editor arrested...
The strange
world of Dunia:
Hanan Turk and a Lebanese director's Egyptian film create lots of
controversy
SPORTS
Powerboat
championship slated for Alexandria 2006...
Sporty
renaissance?
Egyptian
takes home world squash crown...
and Ahly may end up with African club Footballer
of the Year, Coach of the Year and Club of the Year awards...
Profile of top Ahly player Emad
Motab... plus,
Ahly-Zamalek match being
postponed...
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HOT TOPICS
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ECONOMY
Details
on the results of the Telecom Egypt IPO...
 Local
lights
can't compete
Are Vietnam and
other Asian countries dumping
too-cheap light bulbs into the Egyptian market?
British
American Tobacco denies
interest in Egypt's Eastern Tobacco  company... Earlier, it looked like
there would be major competition between BAT and some
of its international rivals in the auction for a controlling stake
in Egypt’s
state-owned cigarettes firm...
In
other economic news, Egypt
attempts
to become a call
center hub...
MEDIA
Catching up to
reality...
Video Cairo boss writes
on media,
peace, and advertising revenue...
"The time has come for a new localized voice in
media, committed to the production and support of sustained peace
in the region"
MISC
A dangerous asteroid
has been named after the ancient Egyptian myth of Apophis,
"the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was
determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness."
 Climbing into pyramid sarcophagus
is now part of some semi-standard tours...
Click
here
for much
more coverage
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EAST-WEST
ADVENTURES
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Royal whirl!
Tannoura
Troupe in London.
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Glorious vistas
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ATIA'S ELECTION TRILOGY |
Democracy 101
"The
logo that has now become a permanent fixture on channels One and
Two, as well as Nile News and Nile TV, may change things.
Intentional or not, the flag immediately attracts young children.
"What is that?" they ask their parents. The typical
response would probably be much like what Kamelia Hamed told her
son when he asked, that the flag is part of the election campaign,
which is a process by which the public chooses their leader from
among several candidates ... In
that simple exchange, a revolution of sorts has already occurred.
These children will grow up with a radically different concept of
presidential politics than their elders had."
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more...
Too
early to tell
Even the
staunchest of opposition figures, Abdallah El-Sinnawi, the chief
editor of Al-Arabi newspaper, admit, live on TV, that some good
has come out of what he would otherwise label a farce. El-Sinnawi and other pundits have been torn
between acknowledging that some sort of democratic process is
going on, and an insistence that a moribund political situation
was far from being resolved. A blogger who put a photo of the
ballot card on his site -- with its quaint boxes decorated with
the colorful symbols of each candidate -- along with the comment,
" Ayl shiyaka dee? " (How chic...), may have said it
best. His sarcasm, much the way one might refer to a finely
dressed individual who is empty of substance inside, is a jab at
how democracy shouldn't just be a show.
That
may also be part of what columnist Fahmi Howeidi meant when he
described the elections as a "cheater's form of
democracy", comparing them to a student who hasn't studied
all year, who suddenly decides, on the night before the test, that
he has to pass."..
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more...
Project
people power
"There
are differing theories as to why the connection is rarely made
between "seeking out one's daily bread" and
participating in the political process. A popular one goes,
"every time the government wants to divert people's attention
from a political issue, they raise the price of basic goods so
that people will think only of meeting their needs, with no time
for anything else."
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more...
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