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Articles of the author Dina Samak
Egypt-Turkey spat continues as Cairo calls Erdogan's latest attack 'desperate'
The diplomatic war of words between Egypt and Turkey continues as the Egyptian foreign ministry issued a statement early Thursday describing the Turkish prime minister's statements about Egypt as "desperate". ‎In a speech to Turkish parliament on (...)

02 - 10 - 2014
Egypt's controversial protest law to be amended within days
Egypt's protest law is expected to be amended within the coming few days after the government reviews changes suggested by both the National Council for Human Rights and the Ministry of Transitional Justice, a source close to the government has told (...)

17 - 09 - 2014
Violence: An Egyptian paradox
Simplistic condemnations of political violence fail to acknowledge the complexity of the relationship between injustice and violence, or to understand the fury of the disenfranchised who feel they have nothing left to live for On 28 January 2011, as (...)

29 - 06 - 2013
Emergency law in Egypt unlikely, for now: Analysts
President Mohamed Morsi said that if he has to “impose exceptional measures to restore domestic order” he will do so, emphasising that he “is afraid” he might have to. Morsi's statement came on Sunday as he gave a speech in the opening session of a (...)

26 - 03 - 2013
So, what did the Egyptians really vote for?
The first day of voting in Egypt's constitutional referendum is over. But what did Egyptians vote for and will they get what they want? Om Rasha is a cook with three children and wears the full Islamic face veil. She lives in a village on the (...)

16 - 12 - 2012
Egypt's National Salvation Front to vote against constitution
Coalition of opposition forces call on Egypt to vote 'no' in upcoming constitutional referendum provided judiciary supervise polling stations, polls take place on one day and NGO observers allowed to monitor process The National Salvation Front, a (...)

12 - 12 - 2012
Egyptian opposition's dilemma: To vote or not to vote
In a few days, Egyptians will vote in a constitutional referendum that the opposition rejects. But it is clear that the opposition does not yet have a unified stance regarding what position it plans to take if the referendum is conducted on (...)

11 - 12 - 2012
Egyptian journalists protest draft constitution
Ahram Online declares its full support for the strike action undertaken on Tuesday by a large number of major Egyptian newspapers and TV stations in defence of freedom of the press, freedom of expression, civil liberties and the rule of law. In view (...)

04 - 12 - 2012
Declaration 'aims to achieve revolutionary demands': Egypt Presidential spokesman
Presidential spokesman Yaser Ali tells Ahram Online that Thursday's constitutional declaration does not pave way for reinstatement of Egypt's Islamist-led People's Assembly Egypt's new constitutional declaration does not target any political group (...)

22 - 11 - 2012
Egypt still considering free-trade zone with Gaza: Hamas official
Egypt has not given up on the idea of establishing a free-trade zone between Egypt and the next-door Gaza Strip, Mousa Abu-Marzouk, deputy head of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas' political bureau,told Ahram Online by telephone on (...)

27 - 09 - 2012
Egypt president's absence from military funeral draws fire from critics
A military funeral open to the public in the absence of the president surprised many Egyptians mourning the deaths of 16 border guards killed on Sunday near Egypt's border with the besieged Gaza Strip. President Mohamed Morsi, who had been expected (...)

07 - 08 - 2012
Secularists fear FJP domination of Egypt's incoming government
As newly-appointed PM prepares to unveil cabinet appointments, political groups and civil society voice fears that Egypt's new cabinet will be dominated by Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party In a few days, Egypt's new cabinet is expected to be (...)

27 - 07 - 2012
Egypt's Brotherhood, SCAF locked in delicate dance over constitutional legitimacy
Egypt's Constituent Assembly, tasked with drafting new constitution, has become central element in ongoing chess game between military and Egypt's new Islamist president Only 48 hours before a scheduled court verdict on the legality of the (...)

15 - 07 - 2012
Egypt protesters hold Tahrir, mull strategy and demands
For the second day demonstrators are still occupying Tahrir Square in Cairo to protest against what they consider a disappointing verdict announced on Saturday against Mubarak, his sons, his minister of interior and six of his senior aides. Numbers (...)

03 - 06 - 2012
Liberal parties won't support Shafiq or Morsi; choose to pressure candidates to pledge inclusive govt
Eight Liberal, leftist parties say they cannot support either Shafiq or Morsi for president opting to form a united front for to pressure the two finalists for an inclusive constitution and outstanding revolution demands Eight Egyptian parties on (...)

28 - 05 - 2012
Leftist presidential candidate goes to bat for Salafist Abu-Ismail
A court verdict issued Wednesday should allow Salafist presidential candidate Hazem Abu-Ismail to obtain documentation from the Ministry of Interior showing whether his mother was a dual Egypt-US citizen, human rights lawyer and presidential (...)

12 - 04 - 2012
ElBaradei demands transparent military budget
Egypt's opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has waded into the debate on the role of the military with a Twitter comment that "the armed forces are a part of the executive authority" and therefore its budget and business interests should be not be (...)

05 - 04 - 2012
Will El-Shater nomination split Egypt's Brotherhood?
The Brotherhood pushed through its decision to nominate second-in-command Khairat El-Shater for president despite widespread internal and external opposition. Ahram Online asks if the Islamist group has gone too far After the ouster of president (...)

04 - 04 - 2012
SCAF recommends constitutional guidelines, MPs remain critical
Military council statement recommends Al-Azhar and Democratic Coalition documents as constitutional guidelines; Al-Adl MP El-Naggar says statement fails to solve crisis sparked by resignations from constituent assembly Egypt's Supreme Council of the (...)

29 - 03 - 2012
Egyptian families demand release of loved ones languishing in Israeli jails
Relatives of imprisoned Egyptians maintain five-day-old sit-in to press for their sons' release; North Sinai governor says last Egyptian political prisoner in Israel was released in 1982 North Sinai Governor Abdel Wahab Mabrouk on Tuesday denied (...)

29 - 02 - 2012
Court challenges constitutionality of Egypt's new Parliament
Were Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections unconstitutional? Doubts to this effect emerged this week after the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) on Monday referred several articles of the law governing parliamentary polls to the State (...)

24 - 02 - 2012
Egypt's general strike call founders but not in vain
Faisal Abdel Aziz, a banker in his early thirties was still optimistic as he went to work Monday morning. "The revolution continues,” he says, "even if one action fails. We still have to try and learn from our mistakes." Abdel Aziz is not a member (...)

15 - 02 - 2012
Protesters in Egypt turn out for 'Friday of Dignity'
Follow our blow-by-blow account of Egypt's Friday protests, as revolutionaries take to Tahrir and squares across the country, following Wednesday's mass demonstrations, to demand a swift power transition to a civil authority 19:00Hundreds of (...)

27 - 01 - 2012
Tahrir Square sit-in, clashes enter second day
Demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square entered their second day on Sunday with thousands of protesters joining a sit-in that began the previous evening to protest police violence used against Saturday protests that left two dead and at least 680 (...)

20 - 11 - 2011
@Alaa calls on activists to celebrate his birthday in Tahrir Square, activists plan hunger strike
Presidential hopeful Bothaina Kamel to join Abd El-Fattah's mother and other activists in a hunger strike to protest his detention and demand the end of military trials of civilians Prospective presidential candidate Bothaina Kamel announced via (...)

14 - 11 - 2011
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