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Preliminary results from the first phase of Egypt’s elections show that the Salafi-led Nour Party could take the second-largest number of seats behind the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in the next parliament.
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With the hashtag “EgyElections,” much of Monday’s Twitter coverage focused on Egypt’s first parliamentary elections post-Hosni Mubarak.
The week’s build-up to the elections was overshadowed by fatalities and injuries,...
I went on a shopping spree today, but not my normal kind, for food or clothes. On Tuesday I bought tear gas protective gear: a hard hat, goggles, a plastic filter mask, and a surgical mask.
They were purchased from vendors in Tahrir Square, where...
Recent announcements that Qatar and Saudi Arabia have both granted Egypt US$500 million in budget support raised eyebrows among some Egypt-Gulf watchers, curious about whether the funding comes with any political strings attached.
Money given by a...
Ineam Atta, whose son Essam was incarcerated in the infamous Tora prison and died in a hospital last week, gave her testimony to the public prosecution Tuesday, saying that her son was tortured.
Her son and his friends in prison told her he was...
A doctor who witnessed the majority of the autopsy conducted on the body of Essam Ali Atta on Friday, 28 October said on Monday that the procedure neither confirmed nor denied whether or not the 23-year-old was tortured to death.
Ahmed Sayam, a...
Ineam Atta knew her 23-year-old son, Essam, was being tortured in Tora prison. He rang home on Wednesday evening to let his mother and family know that an officer called Nour was giving him trouble.
His father, Ali, told him to try and withstand it...
The Egyptian military’s economic interests have long been considered too taboo to discuss in the mainstream media, so little is known about the sections of the economy that fall under the military’s control. But now that a military...
Egypt’s largest publicly traded lender, Commercial International Bank (CIB), signed an LE86 million loan agreement on 23 October with two private sector companies, Medsofts and Wadi Group, for the creation of the Nile Stevedoring and Storage...
If Egypt is to achieve social justice and an efficient economy, the government must strengthen its regulatory capacity, remove subsidies that go to private, energy-intensive industries and create a targeted subsidy policy for the poor,...
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