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Nour Party chairman tries to ease fears

Nour Party chairman Emad Eddin Abdel Ghaffour.
11 Dec 2011
A visit to the Maadi headquarters of the Salafi Nour Party instantly contradicts some stereotypes of the ultraconservative Islamic movement. At the reception area, two bearded young men dressed in modern clothes show no hostility toward a...
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Q & A with the Information Minister: State TV is not immune to making mistakes

File photo of Chief Editor of al-Wafd newspaper Osama Heikal.
26 Nov 2011
Al-Masry Al-Youm sat with Minister of Information Osama Heikal in an interview conducted in conjunction with New Yorker magazine. The interview took place before the recent events in Tahrir Square and before the resignation...
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Q&A: Damietta security chief on current crisis

Damietta residents protesting against Agrium in 2008
14 Nov 2011
Protests continue in the Damietta area after a man was killed yesterday and several injured in clashes with military forces triying to disperse popular protests against a fertilizer factory in the area. Citizens have been blocking roads...
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Q&A: Islamist presidential candidate on Egypt's future

File photo of presidential hopeful, Mohamed Selim al-Awa, during an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, 1 October, 2011.
13 Nov 2011
Last month, Mohamed Selim al-Awa, a moderate 69-year-old Islamist intellectual, announced the temporary suspension of his presidential campaign to protest the slow transition timetable set by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF...
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Most Egyptians want Tantawi as president, says campaign head

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawy, head of Supreme Council of Armed Forces.
11 Nov 2011
Mahmoud Atteya, the coordinator of the Egypt Above All Coalition, said he has launched the Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi for President campaign because he trusts the military leader. Atteya believes Tantawi helped the revolution succeed by...
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French Interior Ministry cracks down on foreign graduates

Students in France
20 Oct 2011
Boubker Benseddiq, a 26-year-old Moroccan national, recently graduated from INSA-Toulouse, a well-respected French public university of engineering. In May, he got a job as an engineer in the petroleum industry. Right after being hired, he...
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Q&A with Ahmed Agiza: A survivor of the Mubarak regime's war on terror

Ahmed Agiza, a survivor of the Mubarak regime's war against Islamists and a victim of the US's extraordinary rendition program, sits with his wife.
25 Sep 2011
Ahmed Agiza is no stranger to the brutality of the Egyptian justice system. The 49-year-old Egyptian Islamist was first detained in 1981 during the wave of arrests following Anwar Sadat’s assassination. Throughout the 1990s, he was...
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Moussa says he warned Mubarak

File photo of Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa during an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, 23 February, 2011.
03 Sep 2011
Amr Moussa, a leading candidate for the presidency of Egypt, said Friday that he had warned Hosni Mubarak days before his fall to call off security forces who attacked demonstrators but was ignored by an authoritarian ruler who seemed...
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Former Egyptian ambassador to Israel: Peace treaty should be modified

A convoy of Egyptian armoured vehicles head along a road in El-Arish on the Sinai Peninsula on the way to the city of Rafah near the Gaza border.
25 Aug 2011
The recent clashes on the Egyptian-Israeli border have again provoked debate about modifying the peace agreement between the two neighbors in order to allow for greater Egyptian military presence in Sinai. Not only are Egyptian officials...
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Q&A: Mounir Saad, Egypt's Coptic vice-presidential candidate

07 Aug 2011
In 1992, Mounir Saad, an Egyptian economist and editor-in-chief of Arab Business Report magazine, was meeting with the president of Austria when one of the president’s aides barged into the office, claiming that a major earthquake...
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