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Author and blogger William Dobson explains what comes next in Egypt after the constitutional referendum, and whether the rolling revolutions in the region will have lasting effects.
... SHEHATA, Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies: Thank you. JEFFREY BROWN: Clearly an historic moment, right, certainly any -- unlike any election, recent election in Egypt. SAMER SHEHATA: Well, that's right. There haven't been free and fair national governmental elections in Egypt for 60-some years. So, regardless ...
... be an Egyptian, and says a candidate would be ineligible if he or she had dual nationality, parents who were citizens of countries other than Egypt or married to a non-Egyptian. Article 76 would require presidential candidates to have either the support of 30 members of Parliament, the backing ...
... t sent them back in. So we haven’t been able to do a complete inventory, and we are working closely with the representatives, the Egyptian archeology authorities on the ground, trying to ascertain what’s going on. JEFFREY BROWN: Speaking of that, I think I saw just today, Egyptian ...
Following Egypt's revolution that brought down former president Hosni Mubarak a month ago, Egyptians are cautiously optimistic about the movement toward democracy, but sporadic violence continues to hamper the process, reports Jon Jensen, GlobalPost's correspondent in Cairo. On Thursday, protesters still encamped in Cairo's Tahrir Square -- demanding ...
... KWAME HOLMAN: A new outbreak of sectarian violence hit Egypt overnight and today. At least 13 people were killed and 140 wounded. There was burnt debris in the streets of Cairo after Muslims attacked Christian demonstrators late Tuesday. The Christians also turned out today, again protesting the burning of ...
... forces trying to retake lost territory was riveting, and at times horrifying. But what was most compelling to me were the echoes I heard of Egypt. It was the same hunger for dignity and respect that I heard from newly minted revolutionaries in Tahrir Square during my 10 days there ...
... of this need for them to redefine themselves and to say they're moderate Islam, they want to be a part of the future of Egypt. And I think there's a sense that they want really the West, as well as Egypt, to take another look at them. JEFFREY ...
Mohammed Badie, the head of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, at a press conference in November. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images) PBS' Frontline airs a report Tuesday night called "Revolution in Cairo" on Egypt's youth movement, which mobilized under the radar of the secret police by using social media, including ...
... take this issue up seriously, because harassment of women is one of the few sort of windows where they let the Egyptian population sort of breathe, and they don't want to take this up seriously. MARGARET WARNER: Or half the Egyptian population. NIHAL ELWAN: Yes, half the Egyptian population.
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