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Articles of the author Ashraf Khalil
Alexandria ''an occupied country'' as govt cracks down on Salafis
In the wake of the New Year's Eve bombings, police forces have unleashed a massive security response in Alexandria, detaining a still-uncertain number of people--most of whom are reportedly members of local Salafi Muslim groups. Such wide-ranging (...)

13 - 01 - 2011
INTERVIEW: ElBaradei on quiet revolution, reform tactics, and religion
Mohamed ElBaradei has chosen an interesting time to re-enter the Egyptian political arena. After his calls for a parliamentary election boycott were ignored by the Muslim Brotherhood and the liberal opposition Wafd Party, ElBaradei watched from (...)

23 - 12 - 2010
“Shubra al-Kheima is hazardous to your health”
It was more annoying than intimidating, more bureaucratic than bullying. But what happened to me and several journalistic colleagues Sunday night was a clear window into the type of petty harassment the regime routinely employs in order to shrink (...)

07 - 12 - 2010
Festival Films: Egypt''s ''Ring Road''
First off, a confession: I watched “Ring Road” by accident. I showed up at the Supreme Council for Culture on a Friday morning planning to watch a different movie. But classic Cairo International Film Festival scheduling issues meant I came on the (...)

04 - 12 - 2010
Elections in Alexandria: ''Ministers aren''t allowed to lose''
Alexandria--On a fairly sedate Friday afternoon in Ramleh Station, it was obvious that elections were in the air. But sometimes, depending on where you looked, it was difficult to tell just who was running for what. Campaign banners and posters hung (...)

26 - 11 - 2010
Wednesday''s papers: Mubarak in the Gulf and Boutros-Ghali on the campaign trail
State-owned flagship daily Al-Ahram leads things off with a curious editorial decision on Wednesday. With parliamentary elections looming on Sunday and the whole country focused on domestic affairs, Al-Ahram tops its front page with news of (...)

24 - 11 - 2010
Cairo''s victory over Washington push for reform
With just days to go before the parliamentary elections, President Hosni Mubarak's government seems to have successfully fended off the latest Western campaign of “foreign interference.” The issue of international election monitoring--which was (...)

24 - 11 - 2010
Wednesday''s papers: RIP Kamal al-Shazli and candidates use the Eid holiday to buy votes
Egypt's state-owned media focused on what turned out to be a busy day of public appearances Wednesday for senior government officials. First there were early morning public prayers to commemorate Eid Al-Adha (The feast of sacrifice). For those of (...)

17 - 11 - 2010
Amid soaring beef prices, poor Egyptians brace for meat-less Eid
Mohamed Saieed sat grumpily behind his counter of the Mourad Butcher in Giza. 
“I have plenty of time to talk,” he said. “We should be packed. I shouldn't even be able to talk to you.” It was less than a week before Eid al-Adha, the meat-intensive (...)

14 - 11 - 2010
Monday''s papers: NDP picks its candidates and Shaaban Abdel Raheem gets political
Parliamentary candidate news dominates Monday's newspapers. State-owned flagship daily Al-Ahram tops its front page with news that "the doors of nomination have been closed” for prospective National Democratic Party (NDP) candidates in the (...)

08 - 11 - 2010
Sunday''s papers: Mubarak delays the annual NDP conference as the Muslim Brotherhood cries "political harassment"
State-owned flagship daily Al-Ahram tops its front page with news that President Mubarak has decided to delay the upcoming annual conference of his ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) from 9 to 10 November until 25 through 26 December. That means (...)

31 - 10 - 2010
Wafd Party retracts boycott threat, warns of "last chance" for government to host fair elections
The Wafd Party announced on Sunday it will participate in parliamentary elections scheduled for the end of November, ending a brief stand-off with the government over Wafd television ads that prompted party leaders to threaten a boycott. New party (...)

31 - 10 - 2010
Wednesday''s papers: Mubarak orders more food to appear, Egypt less corrupt than Somalia
All state-owned papers lead with nearly identical coverage regarding the country's chronic food-supply issues. At a cabinet meeting chaired by President Hosni Mubarak, the government was ordered to increase production of everything from meat and (...)

27 - 10 - 2010
Egypt''s vegetable crisis: ''This is how revolutions start''
It was early May of this year and the anger on display outside parliament was unmistakable. Demonstrators filled the streets to protest in favor of drastically raising the national minimum wage. Their over-arching message was that under current (...)

26 - 10 - 2010
Wednesday''s papers: Shutting down religious channels and First Ladies posing badly
Al-Ahram leads off with front-page coverage of South African President Jacob Zuma's official state visit to Cairo. The main article is fairly proforma: President Mubarak and Zuma discuss issues of bilateral importance, the dreaded “regional (...)

20 - 10 - 2010
Egyptian lobbying campaign fends off congressional reform bill—for now
With two electoral battles looming in the coming months, the Egyptian government now finds itself fighting over a very different set of votes on the other side of the Atlantic. A congressional resolution currently working its way through the US (...)

15 - 10 - 2010
Wednesday''s papers: Government response to US call for election monitoring
State-owned flagship daily Al-Ahram tops its front page today with something that has become a fairly regular feature in recent weeks: aggressive pre-election talk from Safwat al-Sherif. The former longtime Minister of Information al-Sherif was (...)

13 - 10 - 2010
High hopes for Arabic edition of National Geographic
National Geographic magazine is setting its sights on the Arab World with an Arabic-language edition of the iconic photo-centric monthly, specializing in anthropological and ecological coverage. Starting this month, the trademark yellow-framed (...)

06 - 10 - 2010
Wednesday''s papers: Fallout from Al-Dostour and Oct. 6 commemorations
State-owned flagship newpaper Al-Ahram takes an unsurprising route on such a patriotic national holiday. Its front-page lead article centers on President Mubarak's declaration in a commemorative speech that the 1973 was “a historical turning point (...)

06 - 10 - 2010
Tuesday''s papers: Madinaty fallout and a loss of American hope
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 the Madinaty (...)

28 - 09 - 2010
Talaat Moustafa spared death sentence in earlier-than-expected ruling
The complicated legal saga of billionaire businessman Hisham Talaat Moustafa took a new turn on Tuesday when a court sentenced him to 15 years in prison for ordering the murder of his former lover, Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim. Mohsen Sukkari, (...)

28 - 09 - 2010
Thursday''s papers: NDP promises transparent elections and Al-Zawahiri takes aim at ElBaradei
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 potential (...)

16 - 09 - 2010
Sharm el-Sheikh talks open amid vague optimism
US Middle East envoy George Mitchell made a point of telling reporters from the start not to expect any juicy details about the closed-door negotiations taking place between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (...)

14 - 09 - 2010
ElBaradei to regime: ''It''s time to pack your bags and go''
Ending months of speculation, opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has called for a blanket boycott of upcoming Egyptian parliamentary elections by all opposition groups. Speaking at a gathering of young supporters Wednesday night in Moqattam, (...)

09 - 09 - 2010
Peace talks: Once more without much feeling
As Palestinian, Israeli, and American negotiators fly into Sharm El Sheikh this week for round two of the latest US-sponsored peace talks, optimism isn't exactly running wild. The two sides met directly in Washington last week, with unclear results. (...)

09 - 09 - 2010
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