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... s Oliver Wilkins filmed protest signs in Tahrir Square, including "Game over Mubarak" and "Sorry your credit has expired." Other posters made more general proclamations: "Egyptian Not Terrorist" read one, and a man making a peace sign held another that read "Muslim + Christian = Egypt": Find more NewsHour coverage of Egypt ...
... GHEIT: (sighs) There has to be some rationality with the people in Tahrir Square. We have to rationalize their actions, and the wise men of Egypt would have to come together and decide that is the course we will take. MARGARET WARNER: And finally though, what is the danger that ...
MATTHEW AXELROD: That's right. So, I think it's a little bit of both. The United States has been a close ally and a close -- has a close working relationship with Egypt since the Camp David peace accords. And I think that the administration has a sense that they ...
... professor and Nobel laureate chemist who is serving as an unofficial mediator between the government and the protest's organizers. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF EGYPT'S ARMY? | As the Egyptian government continues negotiations with opposition leaders, the army remains the trump card in the transition of political power. Gwen ...
MARGARET WARNER: So you think there's nothing to fear? AHMED ZEWAIL: No. I can see that certain groups will have a much stronger influence. But suppose even that they are stronger at that point. And I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think ...
May 14, 1968: Armed police face a crowd of student demonstrators during the student riots at Paris. (Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images) As analysts and pundits search for historical precedents to sort through the events in Cairo -- Iran in 1979 and Tiananmen Square in 1989 are often cited -- there's one totally overlooked that may becoming...
Jeffrey Brown discusses negotiations between opposition leaders and the government of President Hosni Mubarak with Michael Singh of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and columnist Mona Eltahawy.
... a military core, is never going to allow this to happen, the fall of the president by the pressures of the people. MARGARET WARNER: A recipe for a standoff between two seemingly implacable foes over the future for Egyptians who have learned these past two weeks never to say never.
EGYPT ATTEMPTS TO QUIET UNREST | The Egyptian government moved Monday to defuse protests, offering public-sector workers a pay raise. Margaret Warner reports from Cairo with reaction from people inside and outside the city's central square. Then Jeffrey Brown discusses negotiations between opposition leaders and the government of President ...
... of the problems that the demonstrators have raised, the military members themselves have felt." The military first and foremost sees itself as the upholder of Egypt's sovereignty and national security, but it also has a sizable role in the Egyptian economy -- and gets contracts from the state -- so it ...
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