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Annelle Sheline: Who Will Be Egypt's Next President?

2012-05-24T17:46:39Z

All of these candidates express support for Egypt's international commitments, such as the peace treaty with Israel, although Aboul Fotouh has said that he would put the treaty before a public referendum, and Sabahi has suggested the same.

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Firas Al-Atraqchi: Egyptians Hope Election Will Save Their Country From the Brink

2012-05-22T18:25:57Z

Tens of millions of Egyptians will head to the polls Wednesday to vote for the candidate they hope will move the country from a state of transition to one that is stable and ruled by a civilian government.

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LOOK: Garbage City Feels Elections Fever

2012-05-22T14:52:31Z

CAIRO -- Election fever has even come to Cairo's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on – and living from – the waste of the Eg...

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Egyptian Belly Dancing Channel Owner Arrested

2012-05-17T15:00:00Z

CAIRO — Egypt's vice police on Thursday arrested the owner of a belly dancing TV station on suspicion of operating without a license, inciting l...

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Visiting The Next Giza

2012-05-10T14:53:10Z

The only English words heard in Said Gomaa's coffee shop are expletives shouted by the action stars blasting their way through a satellite network's a...

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Around the World in 10 Photos

2012-05-05T11:27:05Z

From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the monumental to the day-to-day, each week, HuffPost World will present some of the most remarkable images from across th...

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Water Cannons, Rocks To Disperse Protesters

2012-05-04T09:46:08Z

CAIRO — Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defense...

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Wadah Khanfar: Egypt Speaks About Itself

2012-04-27T13:39:30Z

The Egyptian people have regained their voice. They have begun to express their views and choices in the great debate that runs through the entire length and breadth of the country, extending well beyond the issue of the presidency to political, social and economic life.

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John Nicholson: Using Plastic In The Middle East

2012-04-18T07:00:00Z

Not only are we seeing political revolutions spring up across the Middle East. We're also rapidly moving forward with social and economic revolutions in the region as well.

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Akhtar Badshah: The Butterfly Effect -- Everyone Was a Hero in Cairo

2012-04-10T15:57:03Z

I landed in Cairo earlier today expecting to see significant changes. In many ways everything has changed, yet on the drive from the airport to the hotel in Zamalek across the Nile, Cairo still appeared the same.

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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Mulls Run For Presidency

2012-03-22T08:36:19Z

CAIRO -- The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political group, said Wednesday it is considering running its own candidate in upcoming preside...

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Michelle Chen: Workers Hold Key to Reigniting Egypt's Revolution

2012-03-01T11:24:01Z

While workers are consumed with immediate problems of economic instability and unemployment, labor activists struggle to find unity as organizations jostle for representation in the fractious post-Mubarak political landscape.

Read more: North Africa, Egypt, Labor, Muslim, Workers, Human Rights, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, Cairo, Middle East, Tahrir Square, Socialism, World News

Egypt Will Hold Presidential Election In May

2012-02-29T10:49:00Z

CAIRO, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Egypt's presidential election will be held over two days starting May 23, the state election committee said on Wednesday, ...

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'The People Want The Overthrow Of The Marshall'

2012-02-10T14:16:00Z

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

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Yvonne Yorke: PHOTOS: Cerebral Cruising Towards Antiquity

2012-02-10T07:00:00Z

After several attempts to catch a taxi back to the ship, one of the local shopkeepers voluntarily came out of his store and helped me flag down a taxi and give the driver directions.

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U.S. Threatens To Cut Egypt Aid After NGO Dispute

2012-02-08T15:44:14Z

CAIRO — Egypt refused to back down Wednesday in a dispute with the U.S. over Cairo's crackdown on nonprofit groups despite Washington's threats ...

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Asma Ghribi: Egypt's Raids Against Democracy

2012-02-07T13:44:28Z

Beyond learning about the intricacies of democracy, my experience taught me that IRI is a U.S.-funded NGO, but it is truly a multinational organization, working with people from many nations who share one utopian goal: supporting democracy across the world.

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Crowd Storms Syrian Embassy In Cairo To Protest Bloodshed

2012-02-04T00:42:00Z

CAIRO, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A crowd of Syrians stormed the Syrian embassy in Cairo smashing furniture and equipment and setting fire to parts of the bu...

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Violence Erupts Following Egyptian Soccer Riot

2012-02-03T06:59:09Z

CAIRO — Protesters filled the streets and clashed for a second day Friday with police who fired tear gas and birdshot in Cairo, as a deadly socc...

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Maurice Chammah: The Soccer Tragedy in Port Said

2012-02-02T13:18:30Z

The SCAF needed a new tactic to let violence that would not immediately be blamed on them to spiral out of control. So, they left it to happen somewhere else, in a soccer stadium in Port Said.

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Dr. Peggy Drexler: Fear Factor: The Religious Right's Problem With Women

2012-01-31T09:14:25Z

What is it about women that the men of deeply conservative religions find so threatening? What runs so deep that it justifies traumatizing an innocent eight-year-old like Naama Margolese in Beit Shemesh?

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Egypt Military Council's Crackdown Reminds Americans Who's In Charge

2012-01-30T19:02:29Z

WASHINGTON -- A recent crackdown on American pro-democracy organizations in Egypt has observers of the country's military regime shaking their heads o...

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Dozens Of Syrians Storm Embassy In Cairo

2012-01-27T15:39:00Z

CAIRO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Dozens of Syrians broke into the Syrian embassy in Cairo on Friday to protest at their government's bloody crackdown on a ...

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Courtney C. Radsch: 'The Power of Women Is In Their Stories': Arab Women Activists Gather to Talk Twitter and Social Change

2012-01-27T11:30:01Z

"I couldn't have done this without social media. The world would not have known."

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Egyptians Mark First Anniversary Of 'Friday Of Rage'

2012-01-27T07:08:28Z

CAIRO — Muslim Brotherhood supporters and secular protesters hurled bottles and rocks at each other and got into fistfights in Cairo's Tahrir Sq...

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