Tourists desert Egypt as protests rage
Story Summary by Tom Little By Giza’s Great Pyramids, souvenir vendors wait restlessly in the shade, watching for the handful of tourists who still make their way down the empty […]
Two shrines damaged in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
Source: gulfnews.com Militants step up attacks against state since army deposed Mursi Two Islamic shrines were damaged by bomb attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, the state news agency said, […]
Millions take to the streets of Egypt in an ever-growing media fantasy If that many were demonstrating, who was driving the trains, buses, underground, operating the airports, manning the police and army, the factories, and hotels?
Why does the Egyptian crisis appear so simple to our political leaders yet so complicated when you actually turn up in Cairo? Let’s start with the Egyptian press. Flowering after the 2011 revolution, the Egyptian media moved into lockstep the moment General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and the lads chucked President […]
Officials Say Yemen’s Nobel Peace Winner Tawakkul Karman Denied Entry at Egypt’s Cairo Airport
abcnews: CAIRO August 4, 2013 (AP): Officials say Yemen’s Nobel Peace winner Tawakkul Karman denied entry at Egypt’s Cairo airport. link:
‘Envoys in Egypt visit jailed Brotherhood leader’
Source: TOI CAIRO: International envoys visited a high-ranking member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in jail on Monday, the state news agency reported, to press a bid to defuse the crisis ignited by President Mohamed Morsi’s downfall. The envoys met deputy Brotherhood leader Khairat El-Shater just after midnight, having received permission […]
Aid-for-Leverage Failed in Pakistan—It Won’t Work in Egypt Why hurling billions at generals gets us nowhere.
DAVID ROHDE AUG 3 2013, 9:00 AM ET THE ATLANTIC As the Egyptian army continued its violent crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood this week, White House officials said that the […]
The scourge of green card marriages
By Nora P. Goodman Morocco World News Portland, Oregon, April 13, 2013 He came from Morocco to the USA on the Lottery in 2011. He had only been here three […]
A Moroccan asks the government to drop his citizenship
Source: Morocco World News: In the letter, which was received by MWN reads: “I, Bensalem Loukili, born in 02.16.1978 in the village of Kermat Bin Salem, Zerhoun, under national identification card N: DS 4473, took the decision to renounce the Moroccan nationality and the Moroccan state has to take this […]
Sisi’s Islamist Agenda for Egypt: Is Zia’s Pakistan A Model?
Sisi’s Islamist Agenda for Egypt Addressing graduates of military academies is a standard responsibility for high-ranking military officers all over the world. But last week, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the commander of Egypt’s armed forces, which recently deposed the country’s first freely elected president, went far beyond the conventions of the […]
Robert Fisk: Baroness Ashton’s low-key approach gets her all the way to Mohamed Morsi’s secret location The 2011 Revolution showed how mature Egyptians were, even after dictatorships
What is Catherine Ashton for? She couldn’t even tell us what Mohamed Morsi said to her. Or even if she called him “President Morsi” or “Mr Morsi”. Or maybe just “Sir”. And why, by the way, is she called a “High” Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security […]
Saudi King paid 1$ billion to help army remove Morsi
e.alalam.ir Saudi political activist, known as Mujtahidd, has revealed that Al Saud government has helped Egyptian defense minister with one billion dollars to topple former president Mohamed Morsi. Mujtahid who has gathered lots of attention for his Twitter campaign against Saudi government, said in his latest tweets that Commander-in-Chief of Egyptian […]
Fourth revolutionary wave to engulf Egypt
Source: Asia Times: In a statement issued on July 27, 2013, US Secretary of State John Kerry grasped the fact that the revolution has not yet run its course. “Its final verdict is not yet decided,” he said, “but it will be forever impacted by what happens right now.” He […]
Malawi Hosts Iftar for Muslim Women
Source: onislam.net Malawi (southeast Africa): Reaching out to the Muslim community, Malawi President Joyce Banda has hosted a special iftar for Muslim women to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, urging Malawi […]
The blind girl
Source:Morocco World News via Wasim Sr. To the people, Leila is a blind girl. The light she used to see has turned into darkness. Her room, as everything else in her new world, has one color: black.The colors disappeared from the dictionary of her sight. All colors are one color: […]
Egyptian violence was a massacre, not a ‘post-revolution transition’
Sisi realises Egypt’s relations with Israel are far more important than any coup by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK What has happened to Egypt? The dead are being called “terrorists”, […]
EU foreign policy chief visits Egypt’s Morsi
STORY SUMMARY EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton held two hours of talks with Egypt’s deposed president Mohammad Morsi, in custody since shortly after the July 3 coup, her spokeswoman […]
Analysis: US stand on Egypt ‘coup’ may have costs
style kasa.com Published : Saturday, 27 Jul 2013, 11:35 AM MDT WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, foreign armies that received U.S. assistance were on notice that toppling their freely elected civilian leaders would mean an aid suspension. After Egypt, that seems no more, despite a law requiring just that if […]
Desmond Tutu: I’d Choose Hell Over A Homophobic Heaven
The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Desmond Tutu denounced religions that discriminate against LGTB-identified people by making some very strong statements during the United Nations’ launch of its gay-rights […]
Robert Fisk on Egypt: As impoverished crowds gather in support of Mohamed Morsi, the well-heeled march behind their images of the General
Hundreds of thousands support the coup – just as many do not. And the future for Egypt is looking increasingly bloody. Robert Fisk reports from Cairo Hundreds of thousands of people turned out outside Cairo’s Rabaa mosque yesterday to protest against the coup d’état in Egypt, while hundreds of thousands […]
The surgeon helping women after genital mutilation
By Linda Pressly BBC News, Barcelona In Barcelona, a doctor offers reconstructive surgery to women of African origin who were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) as children – but […]