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Wednesday's papers: Talaat Moustafa receives lightened sentence while Bishoy comments linger

29 Sep 2010
The chief front-page headlines for all Egypt's daily papers on Wednesday, September 29, pertain to the convictions of former State Security officer Mohsen al-Sukarri and his alleged accomplice, the former MP and business tycoon Hisham...
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Tuesday's papers: Madinaty fallout and a loss of American hope

Headquarters of Talaat Mostafa Group (TMG), Dokki, Giza
28 Sep 2010
State-owned Al-Ahram leads off its front page with comments from Minister of Housing Ahmed al-Maghrabi defending the government’s controversial sale of 8000 feddans of desert land to the Talaat Mustafa Group (TMG) for construction of...
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Monday’s papers: Bishop Bishoy’s semi-apology and TMG re-buy Madinaty

ٍSaint Bishoy the Metropolitan of Kafr Elsheikh and Damietta and secretary general of holy synod
27 Sep 2010
State-owned Al-Ahram starts off with a report on a mystery which overwhelmed yesterday’s Israeli ministerial council meeting to discuss the extension of the settlement freeze. The report says that Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu...
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Sunday’s papers: Mubarak sends Mohie Eddin to World Bank and FM places onus on Israel

Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohi Eddin
26 Sep 2010
President Mubarak’s acceptance of Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohie Eddin’s resignation makes headlines in both state-owned and independent papers. According to Al-Ahram, which leads with the story along with Al-Akhbar,...
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Thursday's papers: Mubarak in Europe, scandal in Madinaty

Entry of Madinaty, a Talaat Mustafa Group (TMG) project, September 14, 2010. Madinaty has been created on an 8,000-feddan property whose contract has been approved by former Minister of Housing Ibrahim Soliman at a price much lower than market price. Recently, a Cairo-based court has ruled contract null which ruling TMG is planning to appeal against. Later, Dr. Magdy Rady, Cabinet Spokesman, announced a Cabinet meeting delayed a week to provide more time for more adequate legal settlement of a highly controversial case, one which required President Mubarak's interference.
23 Sep 2010
With state-owned Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar newspapers focusing on President Hosni Mubarak’s Berlin summit, independent papers run headlines on the controversy over the Madinaty land sale and pro-democracy protests against the president...
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Wednesday's papers: Mubarak's European tour and an 'American' association's support for Gamal candidacy

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (L) shakes hands with his Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during their meeting on May 19, 2010 at Villa Madama in Rome. The meeting is the third Egyptian-Italian summit since the two countries launched a strategic partnership in Rome in 2008.
22 Sep 2010
State-owned Al-Ahram newspaper leads with the headline “Mubarak starts today his European tour including Germany and Italy.” President Hosni Mubarak, according to the story, will start off his trip in Berlin where he will meet...
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Tuesday's Papers: Madinaty saga and Shehata controversy trudge on

Court Bench ruling on Madinaty's state-owned contract, High Administrative Court, September 14, 2010. The court rejected contract between New Urban Communities Authority and a subsidiary of Talaat Mustafa Group. The court cited "irregularities" as main reason to reject contract.
21 Sep 2010
Updates on the legal commission formed by the president to handle the repercussions of the latest Madinaty verdict dominate the front pages of Tuesday’s private, government-owned and opposition papers. While Al-Shorouk says the...
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Monday's papers: Madinaty and healthcare corruption, Suzanne keeps mum

Court Bench ruling on Madinaty's state-owned contract, High Administrative Court, September 14, 2010. The court rejected contract between New Urban Communities Authority and a subsidiary of Talaat Mustafa Group. The court cited "irregularities" as main reason to reject contract.
20 Sep 2010
On Monday state-run, opposition and independent papers alike report on the latest updates concerning the "Madinaty" case. Earlier a court issued a decree nullifying the sale of 5000 acres of land for real estate development,...
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Sunday's papers: Nasser assassination claims surface while debate continues over election participation

File photo of Al-Masry Al-Youm Nasser Collection. Today, September 28, 2010. Egypt commemorates 40th anniversary of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's passing. Nasser's memory comes at a critical point of Arab-Israeli conflict, amid divisions between Arab leaders whom - according to popular conception - as his contemporary legendary Oum Kalsoum was able to unite Levant and Maghreb Arabs singing, he was able to unite both, delivering a speech in Cairo. Recently, Ms. Ruqaiya al-Sadat, daughter of late President Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, has requested legal action, filing at General Prosecutor, against veteran journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal who, on Tagrubat Hayah (A Lifetime's Harvest) of Al-Jazeera news network, publicly suggested, according to Ms. Sadat, late President Sadat may have poisoned his predecessor Gamal Abdel Nasser; hence fostering a mental image of President Sadat as a plotter in copious writings on his life and connections to Free Officers Movement.
19 Sep 2010
Egypt's print media concentrates much of its Sunday, 19 September attention on a request filed to the general prosecutor on Saturday by the family of former president Anwar al-Sadat. Members of the Sadat family have requested legal...
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Thursday’s papers: NDP promises transparent elections and Al-Zawahiri takes aim at ElBaradei

16 Sep 2010
The state-owned press gives prominent focus on Thursday to emerging details on the upcoming parliamentary elections. Safwat al-Sherif, the National Democratic Party’s powerful secretary general, gives comments emphasizing a number of...
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