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Review: Sinai, Morsy’s independence and liberal powers
Although President Morsy has commenced his first trip to China, which will be followed by a unique trip to Iran, most columnists across Egyptian newspapers have not touched upon the presidential trips. Opinion writers commented on the importance of Morsy’s independence from his Islamist group and some have warned against possible occurrences of violence and …
Freedom and rights on agenda
Constituent Assembly discusses first draft of rights and freedoms in new constitution
Internal Memo 21581-2012
The army is one of the country’s largest and richest business empires and it is too integral to our economic interests to have it ran this way
Morsy appoints Islamist-dominated presidential team
Morsy’s presidential team consists of four assistants and seventeen advisers, predominantly Islamists
Algerian hostage in Mali pleads for his life
Movement for Oneness and Jihad kidnaps an Algerian consulate employee
Militants target Yemen minister
Yemeni transport minister escapes assassination attempt
Thoughts on new alliances
January 2011 created a new set of alliances between the three main political currents in Egypt: the Islamists, the leftists and the liberals. During the first 18 days of the revolution and all the way up to the constitutional referendum in March 2011, this alliance was active and sound. Since the March referendum, this alliance …
Mali Islamists; Algeria will pay for refusal
Mali Islamists threaten to exact retribution on Algeria after hostage swap deal was refused.
New transitional government announced in Mali
Two week after coup, Dioncounda Traore announced Mali’s interim president
Power struggle in Jordan
Jordanian minister for media affairs slams the call to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections
Gamal Eid: Human rights continue to suffer since revolution
Gamal Eid, the executive director of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information speaks with DNE
Different angles to analyse Rafah’s turmoil
At midnight on Sunday, 16 Egyptian border guards were pronounced dead. One might imagine that they were just sitting together during iftar, enjoying some of Sinai’s tasty dates and milk when unrevealed gunmen abruptly shot them dead. Some of those killed might have even been taking their last bite of bread at that very moment. …
Tunisian bill set to criminalise ‘values-based offences”
Rights group: “The draft bill would provide prison terms and fines for broadly worded offenses such as insulting or mocking the ‘sanctity of religion'”
UAE goes after dissidents and Islamist opposition group
Scores of activists and members of Al-Islah rounded up by Emirati police
Libyan election results announced
No party has a clear majority, but moderate coalition in best position
US justifies visa for Egypt Islamist
AFP – The US State Department on Tuesday defended issuing a visa to an Egyptian Islamist whose group is classified as terrorist, saying it hoped to reach out to new faces in a fast-changing region. Conservative critics of President Barack Obama cried foul over the visa to Hani Nour Eldin, a newly elected lawmaker from the …