Rana Khazbak
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Rana is a graudate of American University in Cairo, where she studied political science and mass communications and media arts.

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In an attempt to shore up the Constituent Assembly days before the Administrative Court's decision on its dissolution, President Mohamed Morsy ratified the law regulating its formation in order give it legal immunity against being disbanded by...
A two-day meeting of Syrian opposition groups, considered one of the most diverse and inclusive since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, highlighted longterm ideological disparities and mistrust between various factions....
The Constituent Assembly is in a race against time. The assembly, which is tasked with drafting Egypt’s next constitution, could be dissolved on 4 September, when a State Council Administrative Court will rule on its constitutionality. On 26...
Many Egyptians have not yet sobered from the ecstasy of finally getting a civilian president, for the first time in the history of the 60-year-old republic. But only a few days after the announcement of Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate...
  Ahmed Shafiq’s campaigners were shocked, dismayed and in utter disbelief after the Presidential Elections Commission’s announcement that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsy had won the runoff in the presidential election...
Ali al-Gammal stands outside the gates of the Qotayfet Mubasher polling station in Ahmed Shafiq's home village in the Nile Delta governorate Sharqiya. He is surrounded by a group of men, all working to mobilize voters. "We are Shafiq's...
When Hosni Mubarak was president, Kamel Ahmed would sit in a furnished garage next to a busy intersection in Cairo’s Manial neighborhood, discussing campaign strategies with others working for Fathy Gleed, a former candidate for Mubarak’...
Defying all journalistic principles, the privately owned Al-Dostour devotes its Sunday issue to attacking the Muslim Brotherhood, its presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy and Parliament for the benefit of Ahmed Shafiq, Morsy’s opponent in the...
Protesters have assembled in Tahrir Square over the past week demanding Ahmed Shafiq’s disqualification from the presidential election on the basis of the controversial Political Isolation Law, which bans certain high-level officials from the...
On Friday morning, the campaign headquarters of two candidates who once served under the same regime reflected the unexpected results emerging from Wednesday and Thursday’s vote. The operations room of Ahmed Shafiq, Egypt’s last prime...