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Long before the elections begin, various organizations are in a hectic race to win the dollars of foreign funding made available to monitor the forthcoming elections. Sa’cd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm has struck gold securing 10 million dollars in Canadian-European-US funding.
Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2008
Rif‘at al-Said, the spokesman for the Egyptian opposition parties? alliance, said he met with the U.S. Ambassador in Cairo David Welch for a couple of hours.
Date of source:
Shock shrouded political circles in Egypt after Abd al-Halim Qandil, the Executive Editor-in-Chief of al-Arabi newspaper, the mouthpiece of the opposition Nasserite Party, was kidnapped, beaten and left stark naked on the Cairo-Suez desert highway on the dawn of November 2, 2004. Hundreds of public...
Date of source:
Judiciary independence and national pride are dominating the Egyptian reactions to the US threat
to cut aid to Egypt on protest to the seven-year imprisonment sentence given to Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Ibrahim’s American
wife says that the crisis will be solved in Egypt without American pressure.
Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2000
Al-Hayat, praised the Muslim Brotherhood for backing the Coptic candidate of the Wafd Party in the Waili district. The author of the article described the group’s attitude as "a new step towards an opening to other political powers and an attempt to extend the group’s efficient political tendencies...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The article discusses the weekly Friday sermon and the
poor
performance of the preachers, whom many view as insufficient to stand on the minbar [a pulpit inside
the mosque] and deliver sermons to Muslim worshippers.
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
The Egyptian parliament has approved a two-year extension of the 25-year -old emergency law amidst strong opposition from Muslim Brotherhood and independent members of parliament. Arguing that the government uses the law to silence and oppress the opposition, Muslim Brotherhood members came to the...
Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2006
The authors
harshly criticize leading Brotherhood member Dr. ‘Isām al-‘Iryān for his
statement in which he called upon President Hussnī Mubārak to put an end to the multi-party system in
Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2003
The General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood paid a quick visit to the headquarters of the Nasserist Party. He denied the visit was to end dispute between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Nasserist Party.
Date of source: Saturday, November 19, 2005 to Friday, November 25, 2005
A Coptic politician’s perspective on the parliamentary elections, the actions of the Muslim Brotherhood and potential repercussions of their growing confidence and power.