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Getting Nervous?

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.29.2012

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BEIRUT -- Laughing for the cameras, the Arab leaders appear nothing if not secure in their power, four longtime members of the Middle East coterie of ...

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Don't Return to Business as Usual in Egypt: Link Foreign Aid to Democratic Progress in Egypt

Neil Hicks | Posted 05.18.2012

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Neil Hicks

Ignoring the human rights and democracy conditions that Congress has placed on U.S. foreign assistance to Egypt would be seen as the U.S. government giving its unconditional support to anti-democratic forces in Egypt.

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Mubarak Verdict Set For June 2

AP | Posted 04.23.2012

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CAIRO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - The verdict in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, charged with ordering the killing of protesters in th...

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'The People Want The Overthrow Of The Marshall'

Reuters | Posted 04.11.2012

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* Muslim Brotherhood wants coalition government * Activists plan general strike, civil disobedience * Military source sa...

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The Invisible Arab: As Not Seen on TV

Eunice Roque | Posted 04.09.2012

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Eunice Roque

They took everyone by surprise, including themselves," reads the introduction to The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution, a new book by Marwan Bishara, Senior Political Analyst for Al Jazeera English.

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In Poor District, Egypt's Revolution Feels Incomplete

AP | By BEN HUBBARD | Posted 01.30.2012

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CAIRO -- A year later, the neighbors still speak of those killed the night they attacked the police station: The young man shot in the neck while carr...

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Arab Spring, Islamist Winter?

Rabah Ghezali | Posted 03.19.2012

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Rabah Ghezali

Contrary to this recent pessimism, there is strong reason to believe that the Arab spring will spread in the short term and succeed over the longer term.

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What Sparked Egypt's Revolution?

Posted 01.11.2012

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Unemployment and poverty alone did not spark Egypt's revolution, according to a recent survey carried out by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center. Egyptia...

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Prosecutor Accuses Mubarak Of Tyranny And Corruption

AP | By HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 03.04.2012

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CAIRO -- The chief prosecutor delivered the harshest assessment of Hosni Mubarak's rule ever heard in an Egyptian courtroom Tuesday, accusing the oust...

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Egypt's Mubarak Back On Trial

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 02.26.2012

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CAIRO — The trial of Hosni Mubarak resumed Wednesday after a 3-month break, with the ousted Egyptian leader returning to the metal defendants' c...

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Egyptian Elections: Five Reasons to Stick With the Process

Neil Hicks | Posted 02.01.2012

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Neil Hicks

Egypt's democratic transition faces two main threats: subversion by anti-democratic religious extremists; and obstruction by an authoritarian military junta loathe to yield power to civilian rule. Those who support continuing democratic progress in Egypt must oppose both.

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For Former Members Of Mubarak's Party, First Free Vote Brings Unprecedented Challenge

AP | By AYA BATRAWY | Posted 02.01.2012

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ASSIUT, Egypt -- In conservative Egyptian villages where tribal and familial affiliations reign supreme, parliamentary candidates can no longer rely o...

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Egypt Ruler Warns Of 'Extremely Grave' Consequences

AP | BY HAMZA HENDAWI and MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 01.27.2012

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CAIRO — Egyptians prepared to vote Monday in the first elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a milestone many hoped would usher in a democrati...

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Middle East Dictators Write to Mayor Bloomberg

Michael Luongo | Posted 01.17.2012

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Michael Luongo

Are Middle East dictators and other leaders, including a dead one, giving New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg advice? These letters reveal the secret.

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PHOTOS: 7 Reasons That America Made The World More Dangerous

Andrew Feinstein | Posted 01.08.2012

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Andrew Feinstein

The arms trade stretches across a continuum of legality and ethics from the official, or formal trade, to the grey and black markets, what I refer to as "the shadow world." In practice, the boundaries between the three markets are fuzzy.

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Mubarak Sons Have $340 Million In Swiss Bank Accounts, Says Official

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 12.17.2011

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CAIRO — A senior prison officer was killed by his subordinates as he tried to stop mass prison breaks during Egypt's popular uprising against Pr...

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Egypt Convicts Mubarak's Former Information Minister

Posted 11.28.2011

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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's powerful former information minister was convicted of corruption and sentenced to seven years in prison Wednesday, in the lates...

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Mubarak's Former Chief Of Staff Reportedly Charged With Corruption

AP | Posted 10.17.2011

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CAIRO — A military tribunal sentenced two young Egyptian activists to six-month prison terms after convicting them of insulting the army, a cour...

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Mubarak Appears in Court Again

Hoda Osman | Posted 10.16.2011

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Hoda Osman

The meaning of the decision to ban the trial's live broadcast is still unclear. Will the trial be filmed and aired later? Are photographs allowed? Will we hear Mubarak responding to questions?

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Revenge or Justice for Hosni Mubarak?

Sami Moubayed | Posted 10.08.2011

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Sami Moubayed

Saddam Hussein and Hosni Mubarak deserve the fate that they received, but the presidential institution in both Iraq and Egypt should have been more properly respected.

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A Morton's Fork for Egypt's Generals

Ty McCormick | Posted 10.05.2011

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Ty McCormick

What Mubarak's trial might unearth isn't as worrisome as what it could provoke: A souring of relations with Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries who have pledged billions in soft loans to bolster Egypt's reeling economy.

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The History Of Dictators Brought To Trial

Posted 10.03.2011

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Six months after the start of the protests on Tahrir Square, Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak was brought before a Cairo court on Wednesday, ch...

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Israel Was Offered Mubarak Asylum, Lawmaker Says

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 10.03.2011

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JERUSALEM — An aide to Israel's prime minister on Wednesday denied a claim that Israel offered asylum to Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak...

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Egypt Holds Breath As Mubarak Expected To Stand Trial On Wednesday

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 10.02.2011

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CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak, 83 years old and ailing, goes on trial Wednesday on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during t...

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Does Street Art Really Show A Healthier Cairo?

Travis Korte | Posted 10.01.2011

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Travis Korte

Last week, the New York Times ran a story titled, "The Maturing of Street Art in Cairo," that linked a move away from simple political slogans to a he...

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