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Articles of the author Magdy Samaan
Anti-Morsy protesters head back to presidential palace
Protesters demanding President Mohamed Morsy's ouster regrouped on Thursday evening with renewed marches to the presidential palace in Heliopolis. The demonstrations come after at least five died in the course of clashes Wednesday night between (...)

06 - 12 - 2012
An account of the attack on the presidential palace sit-in
Clashes escalated between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsy around the presidential palace in Heliopolis on Wednesday after the sit-in there was attacked. The fighting broke out around 3:30 pm when Morsy supporters responded to a (...)

06 - 12 - 2012
Putting the pressure on
The widening rift between Islamist and opposition protesters was evident Tuesday night as tens of thousands of protesters who fear that a constitution entrenching Islamist rule will be endorsed besieged the presidential palace in Heliopolis. As (...)

05 - 12 - 2012
A politicized papacy: Analysts look at new pope''s political agenda
Newly ordained Pope Tawadros II's first meeting took place on Tuesday with figures from the leftist Popular Current led by former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi. The meeting lasted approximately 90 minutes, a sign that relations may be (...)

22 - 11 - 2012
Qandil''s visit to Gaza overshadowed by Gazans'' fear for the future
Egypt's Prime Minister Hesham Qandil crossed into Gaza via Rafah at 8 am Friday for a brief three-hour stay meant to bring a pause to the incessant strikes on the enclave and the exchange of fire between Israel and militants based in the (...)

16 - 11 - 2012
No hint of reform with Interior Ministry shuffle
The Interior Ministry reshuffle this week was billed as a way to improve security forces' performance and efficiency in meeting citizens' demands. Rights activists, however, scoffed at the spin on what is perceived to be more of a move to appease (...)

14 - 11 - 2012
In Tahrir, demonstrators criticize Morsy, call for Sharia
Members from nearly twenty different Islamic movements and parties gathered in Tahrir Square on Friday, in what critics mockingly called "Second Kandahar Friday," after a similar protest last year in July of last year when Islamic groups also took (...)

09 - 11 - 2012
How the last Mubarak aide won his battle against the Brotherhood
Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud won his battle against Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsy by exploiting the latter's violation of the law when Morsy announced an executive decision to remove Mahmoud from office and appoint him (...)

18 - 10 - 2012
Egypt bans shooting of BBC program about elections
CAIRO: A TV program on Egyptian parliamentary elections wasn't aired on BBC Arabic Wednesday after the channel wasn't allowed to film the talk show in a private studio in Egypt. BBC Arabic apologized to its viewers for not airing the first (...)

26 - 11 - 2010
Comments on Quran misunderstood, says Bishop Bishoy
CAIRO: Secretary of the Holy Synod and Damietta's Bishop Bishoy denied any intended insult to the Quran or to Islam, stressing that his statement about revising the Quran — which was carried by media reports last week — was taken out of (...)

27 - 09 - 2010
Trailer truck owners challenge president's directive
CAIRO: Trailer truck owners said they will not abide by a relatively new law forcing them to either convert their vehicles to smaller trucks or to sell them, challenging President Hosni Mubarak's orders not to extend the four-year grace period they (...)

17 - 08 - 2010
Saad Eddin Ibrahim: Egypt is on the brink of a revolution
CAIRO: Since his return to Egypt, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, founder of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, has been under a special kind of siege. His wife Barbara is reluctant to let him talk to the media, concerned that his statements might (...)

13 - 08 - 2010
A lawsuit, an alleged affair behind feminist Nawal El-Saadawi's divorce
CAIRO: A lawsuit filed by controversial feminist Nawal El-Saadawi to attain legal guardian of her husband, Sherif Hatata, following an alleged affair he had, is the reason for the famed couple's divorce, Saadawi's lawyer Mohamed El-Samadoni (...)

09 - 07 - 2010
MP Mostafa Bakry ends hunger strike
CAIRO: Speaker of the People's Assembly urge MP Mostafa Bakry to end his hunger strike Monday, describing him as a “knight” and saying that hunger strikes were not appropriate for those of his stature. Bakry had started a hunger strike inside the (...)

18 - 05 - 2010
Support for ElBaradei causes rifts in Constitutional Party
CAIRO: The People's Assembly's constitutional and legislative affairs committee assigned one of its legal counselors to review the dispute over the Constitutional Party's leadership, after the party's deputy, Coptic lawyer, Mamdouh Ramzy, appointed (...)

06 - 05 - 2010
PA to decide on punishment of MP for proposing to shoot protesters
CAIRO: The People's Assembly's legislative committee denounced statements by MP Nashaat El-Qassas calling on security bodies to shoot demonstrators. The legislative committee issued a statement on Wednesday describing El-Qassas' statement as “a (...)

29 - 04 - 2010
Female students pay for ministry's decisions
CAIRO: Female students hailing from different governorates fell victim to decisions taken by the Ministry of Higher Education pertaining to the H1N1 virus, the full face veil (niqab) and final grades. A large number of students were barred from (...)

12 - 10 - 2009
German ambassador says no conspiracy against Hosni
CAIRO: German ambassador to Egypt Bernd Erbel denied that his country took sides against Egypt's UNESCO candidate for director-general on the sidelines of a special event to follow the vote count in the German elections Sunday, won by the incumbent (...)

28 - 09 - 2009
Kefaya founder supports Gamal Mubarak's succession
CAIRO: Hany Anan, one of the founders of the Kefaya Political Movement for Change, said that he is not opposed to Gamal Mubarak succeeding his father in the 2011 presidential elections on condition that Article 77, concerning the number of terms (...)

16 - 09 - 2009
Gamal Mubarak promises homes to displaced Nubians
CAIRO: In a recent trip to Upper Egypt, General Secretary of the Policies Committee of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Gamal Mubarak promised displaced Nubians homes on the banks of Nasser Lake. The promise comes more than 40 years after they (...)

10 - 09 - 2009
Silence marks first day of 'canceled' Sayeda Zeinab moulid
CAIRO: Silence dawned on the Sayeda Zeinab district yesterday, the first day of annual celebration of the birth of Sayeda Zeinab, the prophet's granddaughter. The typical sight of colorful swings, game stands, sweet and gift vendors were no where to (...)

14 - 07 - 2009
Zomor calls for moral compensation
CAIRO: Tarek El-Zomor, member of the Jihad organization and allegedly one of late president Anwar Sadat's assassins, is demanding moral compensation to salvage his image in society after being imprisoned for his involvement in the 1981 parade (...)

17 - 03 - 2009
Al-Salam victims' families rejoice after verdict
CAIRO: Everyone who headed to Hurghada to hear the final verdict in the Al-Salam 98 ferry case was quite pessimistic, but the cries of joy were quickly heard when the court revoked the July sentence and convicted the people in charge of one of the (...)

11 - 03 - 2009
Nour announces reform initiative on first anniversary of April 6 movement
CAIRO: Former leader of Al-Ghad party Ayman Nour announced a reform initiative under the title "Cairo's Announcement for Democracy and Reform, in a bid to continue efforts that were stalled during his more than four years in prison. Nour called (...)

04 - 03 - 2009
Saad El Din Ibrahim urges Europe to support democracy in the Arab world
CAIRO: Saad Eddin Ibrahim, democracy advocate and political sociology professor, called upon the European Union (EU) to support the spread of democracy in Egypt and in the Arab region at the International Parliamentary Conference in Geneva last (...)

17 - 10 - 2008
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