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Articles of the author Nashwa el Hofi
Political powers to come up with suggestions for constitutional committee
The ruling military council has tasked political powers to come up with suggestions for forming the constitutional committee, informed sources have said. The council proposed that presidential candidates Amr Moussa and Selim al-Awa serve as liaison (...)

01 - 12 - 2011
Tantawi will quietly retire after handing over power, says source
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, president of the ruling military council, will retire at the end of the transition period, after handing over power to a civilian authority, a source close to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has said. The (...)

02 - 11 - 2011
Swiss president optimistic about democracy in Egypt
Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey said on Monday that she is optimistic about the future of democracy in Egypt. She made the statement at the opening ceremony of the 125th Inter-Parliamentary Union session in Bern, Switzerland, which was attended (...)

17 - 10 - 2011
Army declines to announce its tally of Maspero casualties
The number of casualties suffered by the Egyptian army while clashing with demonstrators on Sunday remains unknown. The fighting took place before the state television building in Maspero While the Health Ministry announced that there were 24 deaths (...)

10 - 10 - 2011
Iran begins to change stance toward Syrian regime
Iran is reviewing its defense of the Syrian regime and Bashar al-Assad has threatened to inform the US of Hizbullah's weapon storage in Lebanon if Iran abandons him, informed sources have told Al-Masry Al-Youm. A regional meeting recently held in (...)

25 - 09 - 2011
Military council tackles electoral issues in secret meeting with political forces
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has been in secret negotiations with various political forces on a range of electoral issues, according to political sources, and is reported to have reached agreement on a number of outstanding issues. In a (...)

18 - 09 - 2011
Deputy PM: Ruling council entitled to amend interim constitution
Egypt's ruling military council is legally entitled to amend the current Interim Constitution, Deputy Prime Minister Yehia al-Gamal said Tuesday. The SCAF had created the Interim Constitution based on the legitimacy it acquired from the people and (...)

05 - 07 - 2011
Syrian refugees on the Turkish border: Stories of murder, rape, intimidation and thuggery
Hatay Province, Turkey - Behind the barbed wire surrounding the refugee camp located in Hatay Province, near the Turkish-Syrian border, stands Khitam, a six-year-old Syrian girl, who along with her family fled the Syrian regime's crackdown on the (...)

20 - 06 - 2011
Ahmadinejad: Iran willing to resume unconditional relations with Cairo
Iran is willing to resume relations with Egypt unconditionally, said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday, denying reports that Iran requires Egypt to first cancel its peace treaty with Israel. Ahmadinejad was addressing Egypt's (...)

01 - 06 - 2011
Police and army differ on account of Zamalek football clashes
Police officers have denied responsibility for the clashes that erupted on Saturday during the football match between Zamalek and Tunisia's Club Africain. At a symposium on Sunday to improve the image of the police, a police officer said the (...)

04 - 04 - 2011
Cabinet mulls holding elections by proportional representation
The cabinet is considering a proposal to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to apply a system of proportional representation in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Various political forces and legal experts would also be consulted on the (...)

27 - 03 - 2011
Committee to resolve disagreements on constitutional declaration
Reliable sources said that the Supreme Council of Armed Force's delay in announcing the constitutional declaration is due to the Supreme Council's keenness to reach a consensus among political forces. The same sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the (...)

26 - 03 - 2011
Azmy: I am still chief of presidential staff
In his first statement since the 25 January revolution, Zakaria Azmy, former President Hosni Mubarak's presidential chief of staff, phoned “Mobasher” satellite talk show and said the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled Egypt since (...)

08 - 03 - 2011
In reference to Mubarak decision, army says no one is above the law
Commenting on the Attorney General's decision to freeze funds of former President Hosni Mubarak and his family and ban them from leaving the country, military sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the army does not take sides and that no one is above (...)

01 - 03 - 2011
Proposed constitutional amendments: Questions are being raised
The amendments submitted on Saturday by the eight-member constitution panel to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has elicited mixed reactions. While the suggested changes were welcomed by some political groups, others have said they further (...)

27 - 02 - 2011
Deputy PM: New cabinet includes ministers accused of corruption
Newly-appointed Deputy Prime Minster Yehia al-Gamal on Tuesday pointed to the presence of "certain ministers" in Egypt's new caretaker government that had been accused by the public of corruption. “I have no personal differences with them,” he said. (...)

22 - 02 - 2011
Military source denies rights group''s claims regarding torture of protesters
An Egyptian military source has denied allegations by human rights watchdog Amnesty International regarding the alleged arrest and torture of demonstrators who participated in the recent wave of anti-regime protests. The source said that all (...)

17 - 02 - 2011
Sources: Mubarak falls into coma in Sharm al-Sheikh
Ousted President Hosni Mubarak went into a coma on Saturday at his residence in Sharm al-Sheikh, according to well-informed sources. Mubarak flew to the Red Sea resort town on Thursday with his immediate family following his final speech, in which (...)

13 - 02 - 2011
Turkish official dismisses suggestions of regional power grab
Turkey's top presidential aide Arshad Hermozlo said his country is not competing with Egypt over Mideast leadership. In an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, Hermozlo said Turkey is not pursuing a secret agenda and is rather recruited by neighbors to (...)

14 - 12 - 2010
Egypt lacks accurate data...in virtually every respect, report says
A new report by the Egyptian cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) reveals the country's widespread statistical and informational deficiencies. The study, titled “Informational gaps in Egyptian Statistics and the Quality of Basic (...)

24 - 10 - 2010
Conference mulls means of pressuring Israel
"In Israel there are a number of protest movements and peace groups that reject the racism of the state in its treatment of Palestinians. But are we ready to work with these groups as Arabs and form a lobby to pressure the Israeli government?" This (...)

07 - 07 - 2010
Minister''s call for Arabs to visit Jerusalem raises controversy
Egyptian Minister of Islamic Endowments Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouq is not the first to demand that Jerusulem be more open for Muslim visitors. But his recent declaration that he is considering visiting the occupied territories before the end of this year (...)

05 - 07 - 2010
Survey: Meat consumption falls 21% since February
A recent survey conducted by Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center revealed that red meat consumption in Egypt had fallen by 21 percent between February and April of this year. The survey polled 1126 respondents in different cities (...)

03 - 05 - 2010
Report: Egypt needs national anti-smoking program
The first report to include comprehensive data on adult tobacco consumption in Egypt has been prepared by the Ministry of Health, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, and the World Health Organization. The report features a (...)

27 - 04 - 2010
''Alex Al-Youm'' to cover Egypt''s second city
At a launch party held at the Hilton Green Plaza in Alexandria, participants celebrated the launch of Alexandria Al-Youm, the first city-specific newspaper published by Al-Masry Al-Youm. Remarks by attendees varied between admiration and criticism. (...)

22 - 04 - 2010
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