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Articles of the author Hamdi Kasem Yasser Shmies
Brotherhood punishes members for attending conference with dissident
The Muslim Brotherhood has dismissed and condemned some of its members for attending a conference last month by presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, a dissident from the Islamist group. “They have dismissed me,” said Mohamed Abdel (...)

19 - 09 - 2011
Edko residents stage protests
Residents of the Edko district staged demonstrations protesting the building of a British Petroleum natural gas installation in the area. They blocked the highway for 15 minutes. The residents say the project would pollute the environment and impede (...)

04 - 07 - 2011
Brotherhood: We want Islamic legislation, don''t seek parliament majority
“The Muslim Brotherhood aims to apply Islamic legislation and we don't seek an alternative. If Copts knew their rights in Islam, they would seek the application of Islamic law,” said Sobhi Saleh, a leading Muslim Brotherhood (MB) member in a (...)

23 - 04 - 2011
Reconciliation fails between Sufis and Salafis
The conference that the Muslim Brotherhood held in Beheira on Saturday to achieve reconciliation between Sufis and Salafis has failed. The Sufis complained of Salafis demolishing shrines of revered religious figures. The latter deems such shrines as (...)

10 - 04 - 2011
Brotherhood ''ready and able'' to vie for parliamentary seats
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement is "ready and able" to compete in nationwide parliamentary elections slated for November, MB Shura Council member Mohamed Gamal Heshmat declared this week. He went on to say that details about the MB's (...)

27 - 09 - 2010
Lawyers: Police forged Alex victim''s record
The defense team for Khaled Saeed, the young man allegedly beaten to death by police in Alexandria two weeks ago, has accused the Interior Ministry of forging the victim's criminal record. According to defense lawyers, although Saeed had been (...)

20 - 06 - 2010
Aftershocks of Shura election continue in governorates
The repercussions of the recent Shura Council elections continued in several governorates with the arrests of number of supporters of various candidates and the release of others. In the Beheira Governorate, Yasir Zaky, attorney general for the (...)

05 - 06 - 2010
NDP figure attacks Muslim Brotherhood and media
Ahmed Ezz, secretary for organizational affairs at the National Democratic Party, strongly criticized the Muslim Brotherhood and the media during an electoral conference held in the city of Abu Hummus to support NDP candidates in Beheira (...)

31 - 05 - 2010
3 train accidents in Beheira
Three train accidents took place in the governorate of Beheira between the hours of 10:25 PM and 11:25 PM, resulting in the deaths of two people and injuring nine others. Alaa el-Badri, sheriff of the railway police notified General Magdy Abu Qamr, (...)

09 - 04 - 2010
Govt to solve sewage problem in Rashid
For more than three months the residents of Rashid had been suffering from problems with the city's sanitary drainage system. But it was only after their third call for help that Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development Ahmed el-Maghrabi (...)

01 - 02 - 2010
Textile workers, physicians protest
More than 300 workers at the Tanta Flax and Oils Company demonstrated in front of the Gharbiya Governorate headquarters, demanding overdue salaries. Security forces encircled the protesting workers and brought in vehicles to move the protesters away (...)

27 - 01 - 2010
Nationalists protest Abu Hasira moulid
Two weeks from now the Administrative Court of Alexandria will be reviewing a lawsuit filed by Mostafa Raslan, who had previously succeeded in obtaining a verdict preventing foreign Jews and Israelis from visiting Abu Hasira. In his lawsuit, Raslan, (...)

05 - 01 - 2010
Predictions for Egypt''s political future
Activists, political pundits, and those with a general interest in politics differ as to how Egypt will look in 2010. Opinions can be divided into two broad camps: one so pessimistic that it believes there is no hope for change and that the future (...)

04 - 01 - 2010
Rashid inundated with sewage water
Just six months after President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated a drainage project in Rashid, the Beheria Governorate town is drowning in sewage water. The waste water has surrounded houses, forcing residents to use ladders to enter their homes. "I cannot (...)

21 - 12 - 2009
MP: Corruption costs LE63 billion a year
Parliamentarian Ahmed Abu Baraka has submitted an interpellation to Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on the spread of corruption in Egypt--a phenomenon, he said, that both threatens the state and wastes funds otherwise earmarked for development. (...)

13 - 12 - 2009
Rashid ferry crash rescue operation finished
A security source in Beheira Governorate says that authorities did not receive any notification of missing persons after two ferries on the Nile collided last Friday in Rashid. The rescue operation was halted when no bodies were found, according to (...)

07 - 12 - 2009
Police officer charged with farmer''s murder
Beheira – The public prosecutor in Damanhour brought four local employees into custody and ordered the arrest of a police officer for their involvement in the death of a farmer in the village of Minyat Attiya. Witnesses said the officer quarreled (...)

01 - 11 - 2009
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