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Articles of the author Farouk el Gamal
Advisory Council to consider request to dissolve itself on Tuesday
The Advisory Council will consider on Tuesday a request from a number of council members to dissolve the council, particularly after the election of the People's Assembly and Shura Council, Sameh Ashour, deputy head of the Advisory Council and (...)

05 - 03 - 2012
Request to annul Engineers Syndicate elections
Members of the "Engineers against Sequestration" group on Wednesday filed a lawsuit, requesting the annulment of Engineers Syndicate elections results for purported excesses committed by Muslim Brotherhood candidates. Sources said the results were (...)

01 - 12 - 2011
Sharaf meets with lawyers to discuss dispute with judges
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf met Monday with five lawyers to discuss the current crisis between the Judges Club and the Lawyers Syndicate over draft amendments to Judicial Authority Law 142/2006. The meeting was attended by former Lawyers Syndicate (...)

31 - 10 - 2011
Lawyers escalate protests, blocking Ramses Street
Lawyers stepped up their protests on Tuesday, holding a demonstration outside the Lawyers Syndicate and blocking Ramses Street in downtown Cairo. Meanwhile, more than 2000 lawyers shut down the North Cairo and Badrashein courts and prevented judges (...)

18 - 10 - 2011
Doctors protest assault on colleague in Red Sea Governorate
Dozens of Egyptian doctors staged a protest on Thursday outside the office of the attorney general in downtown Cairo after a prosecutor allegedly assaulted a female doctor in Red Sea Governorate, southeast of Cairo. The protesters threatened to (...)

29 - 09 - 2011
109 candidates to vie for Journalists Syndicate positions
Egypt's Journalists Syndicate stopped accepting candidacy applications Wednesday, the deadline for its October elections. Five candidates - Yehia Qallash, Mamdouh al-Waly, Sayyed al-Iskandarany, Mo'nes al-Zoheiry and Mohamed Maghraby - are vying for (...)

21 - 09 - 2011
Brotherhood members to run for Journalists Syndicate board
Five journalists affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood applied on Monday to compete for board memberships in Egypt's Journalists Syndicate elections. The elections are scheduled for 14 October and the number of board membership candidates have now (...)

19 - 09 - 2011
Opposition figures announce bid for Journalists Syndicate chief
Two potential candidates who are viewed as opposition figures on Monday declared they will run for president in the upcoming Journalists Syndicate elections. Yehia Qallash, a current syndicate board member, and Diaa Rashwan, a researcher at Al-Ahram (...)

06 - 09 - 2011
Civil rights lawyers welcome decision to stop Mubarak trial broadcast
Civil rights lawyers representing the families of those killed during the 25 January revolution welcomed the court's decision on Monday to stop the live broadcast of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's trial. Lawyers who spoke to Al-Masry Al-Youm said (...)

15 - 08 - 2011
Presidential candidates call for replacement of interim govt
Four presidential hopefuls have called for the replacement of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's caretaker government with a more technocratic, crisis management government. In a joint statement on Thursday, Mohamed ElBaradei, Hamdin Sabbahi, Ayman Nour (...)

14 - 07 - 2011
Tempers fray as Amr Moussa is included in Revolution Protection Council
A scuffle broke out between supporters and opponents of Amr Moussa during a press conference at the Journalists Syndicate on Tuesday, with critics of the former Arab League secretary general objecting to his inclusion in the membership of the (...)

24 - 05 - 2011
Expedited trial for 25 suspects in Israeli Embassy assault
The military prosecution on Thursday referred 25 suspects out of 146 for expedited military trials in connection with the alleged attempted storming of the Israeli Embassy by protesters on Sunday. According to the military prosecution, the suspects (...)

19 - 05 - 2011
Lawyers stage vigil criticizing delay in putting Mubaraks on trial
A number of lawyers on Tuesday staged a vigil in which they requested the attorney general to explain why ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his family have not yet been brought to trial. At a press conference held by the Lawyers Syndicate Freedoms (...)

22 - 03 - 2011
Calls for presidential elections to be held before parliamentary ones
A number of politicians and experts expressed fear that the formerly ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) could reappear on the political scene. They also warned that the spreading of what they described as “remnants of the NDP” throughout Egypt's (...)

08 - 03 - 2011
Lawyers Syndicate board sends chairman on obligatory holiday
The board of the Lawyers Syndicate decided to send Chairman Hamdi Khalifa on obligatory holiday until the end of his term or the holding of early elections. The board also dissolved the syndicate's executive committee on Tuesday and appointed a new (...)

23 - 02 - 2011
Al-Baz: Egypt''s president should be under 50
Egyptian space scientist Farouk al-Baz said Egypt's new president should be no older than 50, to cope with the fast pace of change and to understand the needs of new generations. All officials who belonged to ousted President Hosni Mubarak's regime (...)

21 - 02 - 2011
Opposition figures urge political forces to unite against anticipated vote fraud
At a seminar organized by the Egyptian Press Syndicate's freedoms committee on Wednesday, political figures called on Egypt's various political movements to stand up against anticipated vote fraud in upcoming presidential elections slated for (...)

23 - 12 - 2010
ElBaradei denied entry to Journalists Syndicate
Mohamed ElBaradei canceled his planned visit to al-Dostour‘s journalists, who are staging a sit-in at the Journalists Syndicate, after Syndicate Chief Makram Mohamed Ahmed denied him entry to the building. Al-Dostour journalists said the decision (...)

14 - 12 - 2010
Press Freedoms Committee: Elections "disgraced" Egypt
The Egyptian Press Syndicate Freedoms Committee is condemning alleged violations of free press during the first round of parliamentary elections and will hold a press conference Saturday. In a statement issued Friday, the committee described the (...)

03 - 12 - 2010
Brotherhood accuses official political parties of ''conniving'' with regime
Candidates for the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition group who are running in 28 November parliamentary elections accused certain licensed Egyptian political parties of conniving with the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) to eliminate them (...)

21 - 11 - 2010
Al-Dostour''s new chairman sacks absentee reporters
Reda Edward, the new chairman of popular independent daily Al-Dostour, sacked 11 reporters this week for exceeding the number of days off allowed under the terms of Egypt's labor law. Edward only fired upper-management reporters, however, saying (...)

28 - 10 - 2010
Wafd Party leader agrees to take on ousted chief editor
Al-Sayed al-Badawy, leader of the opposition Wafd Party, has accepted a recommendation by the party's executive board to allow Ibrahim Eissa, former chief editor of independent daily Al-Dostour, to write for the party's daily newspaper, (...)

27 - 10 - 2010
Al-Dostour CEO rejects journalists'' demands to reinstate Eissa, Mansour
Reda Edward, the new CEO of opposition daily Al-Dostour, informed the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate on Monday that he had rejected journalists' demands to reinstate former chief editor Ibrahim Eissa and former executive editor Ibrahim Mansour. He (...)

18 - 10 - 2010
Journalists review Al-Dostour newspaper crisis today
The Journalists Syndicate council today held a meeting to review a crisis caused by the dismissal of Ibrahim Eissa from his post as editor-in-chief of Al-Dostour, and the refusal by a number of editors to continue working. The meeting was attended (...)

16 - 10 - 2010
New Al-Dostour chairman declines to discuss paper''s woes with press syndicate
Reda Edward, the new chairman of prominent independent daily Al-Dostour, said he would not discuss the demands of the paper's reporters--scores of whom are currently staging an open-ended sit-in--with the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate. “The paper's (...)

13 - 10 - 2010
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