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Egyptian Election Goes Forward Despite Setbacks

How do you take a revolution to the polls? Some Egyptians apparently found the electoral potential of Monday’s vote, their country’s first since President Hosni Mubarak’s regime was brought down, to be wanting and boycotted the whole production, but many others were willing to deal with the lines and ... (more)

Posted on Nov 28, 2011 READ MORE



AP / Khalil Hamra

Egyptian Military Leaders: Sorry, but We’re Not Going Anywhere

Though they expressed their condolences for lives lost during the latest round of protests in Cairo, members of Egypt’s ruling military council refused to change their plans for either Monday’s parliamentary elections or the eventual presidential vote slated for next year.

Posted on Nov 24, 2011 READ MORE  |  2 COMMENTS



AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill

Egypt’s Military Council Gives an Inch

Responding to days of protest and turmoil, once again centered in the mother lode of the Arab Spring, Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Egypt’s ruling military council made an attempt to placate pressure groups by pledging to transfer power to the Egyptian people by June. (more)

Posted on Nov 22, 2011 READ MORE  |  1 COMMENT



AP / Khalil Hamra

Egypt’s Civilian Government Offers to Step Down

Egyptians staged another mass protest Monday as the interim civilian government faced another major transition. The day before, the whole cabinet submitted its resignation, but the ruling military council had yet to accept it by nightfall. Meanwhile, more than 30 people were ... (more)

Posted on Nov 21, 2011 READ MORE  |  5 COMMENTS


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