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 […]
War and revolution stimulate creative minds
August 03, 2013 Childhood memories of wartime Lebanon and street scenes from revolutionary Cairo: Lena Merhej and Mohamed Shennawy embody a trend in contemporary Arab graphic novels that draws its inspiration from real-life events. Aged 35, Merhej has a German and Lebanese background and works as a graphic designer and […]
The epic Arab trek between God and gun
August 03, 2013 12:21 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Hold on to your seats, for the four most powerful and influential Arab countries – Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – are all experiencing significant, sometimes violent, internal changes that touch on the most basic […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chomsky shares Middle East pessimism in Geneva
by Simon Bradley in Geneva, swissinfo.ch July 26, 2013 – 17:33 New Israel-Palestine peace talks and diplomatic efforts to hold an international conference in Geneva aimed at ending the conflict […]
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 […]
Iftar meals: An Ancient Islamic custom
JEDDAH: KHADIJA HABIB ARABNEWS Thursday 25 July 2013 Iftar meals for the needy or travelers to break their fast, or “Banquets of God” as the custom is known among Muslims, […]
Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Is in Shock Over Egypt
By: Mohammad Abu Rumman for Al-Monitor Posted on July 19. There was a discrepancy between the reaction of the Muslim Brotherhood and that of the government in Jordan regarding the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The independent Jordanian Al-Ghad daily saw Morsi’s removal, as mentioned in its headlines, as […]
Saudi Arabia transfers $2 billion to Egypt
Source: Hindustan Times: Saudi Arabia has transferred $2 billion to the Central Bank of Egypt as a deposit for five years without interest, state-run Ahram Online reported Sunday. On July 9, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ordered financial assistance worth $5 billion to Egypt, including $2 billion in […]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood failed the most basic test – feeding the people
by Ruth Pollard Middle East Correspondent The Sydney Morning Herald Cairo: A tiny woman dressed all in black sits at a crowded communal table in the Cairo neighbourhood of Agouza, […]
Egypt would gain from the Turkish experience
STORY SUMMARY By Ali Ezzatyar The Daily Star In February 2011, when the Egyptian military helped oust President Hosni Mubarak, it was natural to think of the applicability of the Turkish precedent to Egypt. One of former President Mohammad Mursi’s goals was to take power out of the hands of […]
New FM says Egypt has no intention of waging “jihad” in Syria
Breaking News: New FM says Egypt has no intention of waging “jihad” in Syria Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jul-20/224421-new-fm-says-egypt-has-no-intention-of-waging-jihad-in-syria.ashx#ixzz2ZZwOT2ZV (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
‘Brotherhood chief suspends Ramadan fast for anti-coup ‘jihad” | The Times of Israel
Source: timesofisrael.com A series of Twitter posts attributed to Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohammed Badie claimed on Monday that protesters against the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi may break the fast of […]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood shows signs of fracturing after Morsi’s fall
By Charlene Gubash, Producer, NBC News CAIRO – Just last month, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood had a lock on Egypt’s presidency and parliament. Now, after mass protests backed by the country’s military swept President Mohammed Morsi from power, the organization venerated throughout the Muslim world for its discipline, ministry to […]