Time Amal Clooney to Visit Egypt to Push for Journalist's Release Amal Clooney has requested a meeting with Egypt's president to push for the release of jailed Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy. "Despite clear assurances that he would be released, Mr. Fahmy remains in detention in Egypt," Clooney wrote in her letter to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, according to CTV News. "I therefore plan to visit Cairo in the near future to meet with Mr Fahmy and to discuss the prospects for his release." Read more: http://time.com/3699993/amal-clooney-egypt-al-jazeera/ The Jerusalem Post Hamas video shows group's pain over Egypt's decision to label its military wing terrorists On Saturday, Hamas's official media arm released a video showing just how betrayed they felt. The movie begins with a soldier standing with an Egyptian flag waving in the background, with a narrator saying: "O Arab." The Egyptian soldier is then shot and the narrator says, "Your wound." Then a soldier appears with a Palestinian flag in the background, who is then shot as the narrator says, "My wound." "Your wound, my wound, our wound is one," says the narrator as the two injured Arab soldiers grasp each others bleeding hands. Then an Israeli soldier appears with the Israeli flag in the background: "your enemy, my enemy, our enemy is one," says the narrator as both Arab soldiers shoot bloody holes into the Israeli flag and Israeli soldier. Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Hamas-made-an-awful-video-to-show-its-pain-over-Egypts-decision-to-label-its-military-terrorists-390328 Haaretz Justice, Egyptian style – a long, sharp shock The name Ahmed Douma is familiar to anyone who's been following Egypt's unraveling revolution these past four years. The 26-year-old, a spokesman for the Revolutionary Youth Coalition, gained a questionable new distinction on Wednesday by becoming the only liberal activist to be sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of 17 million Egyptian pounds ($2.2 million), following charges of taking part in clashes between protesters and security forces in 2011. Douma epitomizes the new Egyptian "justice" – intolerance of any criticism of the regime, particularly not of the president. Douma's sentence, handed down during the week in which Egypt is marking the fourth anniversary of the Tahrir Square revolution, delivers a sharp message to all protest movements in the country. Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/.premium-1.641195 The Economic Times Egypt: 151 militants killed in army raids in North Sinai At least 151 militants were killed in army raids during the past three days in different parts in Egypt's North Sinai region, official sources said. Forty-seven of the 151 militants were identified as dangerous 'Takfiri' leaders. Twenty-two of them are Egyptian while 25 others were of different nationalities, sources said. The raids came days after President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ordered the formation of a military leadership for Sinai and the areas east of the Suez Canal. Read more: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/46160744.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Press TV Iran ready to expand trade ties with Egypt Iran said on Saturday that it is determined to expand economic ties with Cairo in all areas. Mohammad Khazaei, the president of the Organization for Investment, Economic and Technical Assistance of Iran, said Tehran is specifically ready to export technical and engineering services to Egypt. Khazaei said Iran has serious plans to facilitate technicalities for trade with Egypt. He further expressed hope that relations between Tehran and Cairo would reach to a degree that the two countries would form joint economic committees, IRNA reported. Read more: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02/07/396613/Iran-ready-to-expand-trade-ties-with-Egypt---
