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Is Egypt’s judiciary ready to try corrupt former officials?

17 May 2011
Egypt’s former first lady relinquished some LE24 million in assets Monday in an attempt to satisfy the corruption investigation against her. But as investigations against former President Hosni Mubarak, his family, and his closest...
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Egypt’s revolt poses a test for AUC

A student talks on her mobile phone next to a large photograph from the uprising that ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at the American University in Cairo campus in New Cairo, Egypt.
15 May 2011
Any university likes to brag about prominent alumni. But when they end up taking opposite sides of a revolution on its doorstep, some nimble footwork is required, as the American University in Cairo learned in recent months. Case in point...
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Egypt’s tribes fall back on traditional conflict resolution methods

 Two tribesmen solve their problems in a reconciliation session in Qena, Upper Egypt.
13 May 2011
Inside Abdel Rahim al-Qenawy mosque in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena, members of the Taramsa and Homaydat tribes sit together as religious clerics and community leaders lecture them about the value of forgiveness. Someone recites...
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Political change in Egypt to boost Nile cooperation

Nile boats
12 May 2011
After decades of mistrust and saber-rattling, the fall of Hosni Mubarak will improve Egypt's ties with Ethiopia and boost the chances of a new deal to share the Nile's waters. The two most populous countries in Africa after Nigeria...
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Behind bars, 9 March prisoners continue protesting

Egyptian policemen and soldiers stand guard outside the prison of Torah, where Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, the sons of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak are detained, April 15, 2011, Cairo. Mubarak and his two sons were remanded into 15 days custody this week after prosecutors launched a probe into violence against protesters during an 18-day popular uprising that forced Mubarak to resign on February 11.
11 May 2011
In Tora prison, they are known as the 9 March group – more than 100 protesters who, after being arrested in Tahrir Square, faced military trials and were given prison sentences ranging from one to seven years.    But...
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Democratic constitution faces hurdle: Egypt's past

Egyptian voters line up to cast their ballots in the first post-Mubarak poll, in the Maadi Canal School, Cairo.
09 May 2011
Many criticisms have been leveled at Egypt’s military rulers for drafting a 63-article interim Constitutional Declaration without consulting the country’s revolutionary forces, just two weeks after Egyptians cast their ballots...
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Cairo's Copts organize groups for self-defense

Protesters launch march against sectarian strife from the High Court reaching to the Egyptian Radio and Television building, Cairo, 8 May, 2011. Dozens of protesters staged the march calling for protection over churches and encountering frequents attacks as well as releasing detainees held during the Imbaba incidents. Another clashes took place by the end of the march as Muslims and Copts hurdled stones. Military police then intervened to stop the clashes.
08 May 2011
  Members of the Coptic community in the working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in northwest Cairo are forming groups for self-defense after recent sectarian clashes left 12 dead and hundreds injured. Copts in Imbaba, who expect more...
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Egypt’s law falls short of protecting whistleblowers

A group of journalists in protest against state-owned papers, Press Syndicate, Cairo, February 20, 2011. Demonstrators demanded Armed Forces Supreme Council take action against alleged wasting of public money and to hold state-owned paper boards' accountable.
08 May 2011
Widespread corruption in government institutions was one of the triggers for the 25 January revolution that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak and his regime. Now, many from the regime, including the fallen president and his inner...
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Will Saudi Arabia lead Egypt's counter-revolution?

Saudi king Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud shakes hands with president Mubarak after his arrival to Saudi Arabia to hold meeting in Riyadh on 23 December 2009 as a part of his gulf tour which includes Kuwait and Emirates
08 May 2011
  With Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule finished and much of the Arab world in a state of revolt, the time is ripe for Egypt to embark in a new, more independent direction in foreign policy. But Egypt will tread cautiously as the...
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Expert raises doubts surrounding Al-Qaeda rumors and bin Laden's death

A passer by looks at newspaper headlines reporting the death of Osama Bin Laden, in front of the Newseum, May 2, 2011 in Washington, DC. Last night U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States had killed the most-wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden in an operation led by U.S. Special Forces in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
06 May 2011
His name has been associated for years in the press with Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; Gamal Ismail, the Palestinian correspondent and author of "Bin Laden, Al-Jazeera, and I", who lives in Islamabad, uncovered many secrets...
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