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Egypt Has Received No Request to Monitor Election

Egypt Has Received No Request to Monitor ElectionAmbassador Mokhles Kotb, Secretary General of National Council for Human Rights (NHCR) said that there were no requests from foreign observers to monitor

Kefaya’s Need of America Leaves Bitter Taste

Kefaya’s Need of America Leaves Bitter TasteCAIRO - Washington’s drive for democratic change in Egypt has left the country’s reformist opposition torn between a deep-rooted anti-Americanism and the potential windfall

Muslim Brotherhood Claim Egypt Election Rigged

CAIRO -- The initial returns from Egypt’s first-ever presidential election looked exactly like Mohammed Habib had expected them to. After five decades of repression, the leaders of the country’s Islamist

Promises To Keep In Egypt

Promises To Keep In Egypt By Saad Ibrahim CAIRO -- Weeks afterward, Egyptians are still getting fresh accounts of the irregularities and outright fraud that marred their first multi-candidate presidential

Egypt, values ride a Mideast-West seesaw

The conflict now raging in Afghanistan is not a war between the United States and Islam, the Bush administration insists.

An Egyptian-style vote

An Egyptian-style vote WHAT IF they held an election and nobody much cared? In Egypt, barely 1 in 4 voters turned out for the first open presidential vote in a

Egypt sets date for parly vote

Egypt sets date for parly vote  Cairo - Egypt’s three-phase parliamentary elections will kick off on November 9 and end on December 7, according to a presidential decree published in

After Egypt’s Vote, a Surge of Skepticism

After Egypt’s Vote, a Surge of Skepticism By Daniel WilliamsWashington Post Foreign Service CAIRO,As the oilcloth campaign posters came down from Cairo street corners, Hayan Saad, whose husband has been

Egypt: Condition for Democratic Transformation

Egypt: Condition for Democratic TransformationHazem Saghieh    In the rhetoric of the recent Egyptian elections, one notes the usage of the term “first” elections in Egypt. Some have added “since 50

No ’Turning Back’ in Egypt

No ’Turning Back’ in Egypt By David Ignatius CAIRO -- It’s hard to imagine Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as a change agent. During the 24 years he has ruled this