News Group International, a Dubai based-news and information company, analyzed social media from and revolving around the Egypt uprising in Tahrir Square in January and Feb 2011. They discovered a new conversation rising, growing larger all the time and asking Arab people all over the Middle East and North ...
... audio statement on the Al-Arabiya news channel, Mubarak defended his honor and denied he or his wife have hidden money abroad. HOSNI MUBARAK, former Egyptian president (through translator): I have spent my whole life serving the nation with honesty and integrity. I cannot remain silent in the face of ...
... MARGARET WARNER: Late today, Egypt's prime minister apologized for the weekend crackdown and said he'd ordered an investigation. For more, we go to Nabil Fahmy, former Egyptian ambassador to the U.S. He's now dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the ...
// Video edited by Justin Scuiletti Egypt's march toward democracy -- from protests in January to President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in February and constitutional changes in March -- was more like a sprint. Author and blogger William Dobson, who recently returned from a visit to Egypt, sat down with Hari ...
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 ...
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