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Find
out how
the world media sees Egypt...
February
15, 2005
Ghad's woes
Ghad party number two released...
Reporters sans
Frontiers critical
of Ghad newspaper banning...
In
depth, somewhat enlightening article on Ayman Nour
in Financial Times (may require registration) -- Same story on Yahoo...
Egyptian Embassy
spokesman responds
to the New York Times...
US
and democracy in Egypt
Saadeddin
Ibrahim pens a scathing editorial
in the Washington Post that is even more critical of Bush
than it is of Mubarak...
Jackson
Diehl in the Washington Post mirrors Saad, in critiquing
not only Mubarak but
Bush, and placing the crackdown on Ayman
Nour in the context of Egypt's role in the
Palestinian-Israeli crisis. He predicts that Abul Gheit
and Suleiman will get a cool reception in Washington...
Meanwhile,
the calls to cut USAID if there's no democracy get louder...
Al-Ghad's
woes continue...
First, the party's number
2 figure is arrested. Ayman
Nour, meanwhile, is threatening to go on a hunger strike... Then, as if matters could not get much
worse, the party's newspaper is banned
before it even starts to come out...
In a
related note, this story portrays Mubarak as defying
Bush's democracy push
by beginning a campaign of opposition arrests a week after Egypt
was singled out by the president's inaugural speech. The Times
analysis of the same ends up being a bit wishy
washy.
Newsweek steps in
with a stylized
analysis of the political scene from a US perspective, vis a vis Ayman
Nour and Sharm El-Sheikh.
2 of the three people arrested at
the book fair freed.
Looking at
Iraq
Egyptian
commentary
on the Iraq election results...
Iraq hostages released
Businessman Naguib Sawiris talks about
the American
raid to free the Baghdad-based Egyptian hostages,
and the ransom that wasn't paid... The Orascom employees were freed
late Monday, reports AFP.
ISLAMISTS
The Australian
government has conceded allegations by former Guantanamo
Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib that he was tortured in Egypt may
be true. ...
AP spins its story on the chase
for one of the Taba perpetrators in light of Bedouin pledges to help the
government.
Egyptian filmmaker says Michael
Moore used his footage of Bin Laden without
permission in Farenheit 911.
Bad boy no
more?
Mido apologizes...
Mido gets great UK press after
his debut Tottenham goals -- the Mirror,
the Evening
Standard, and the Telegraph
all represent. His new coach tells the press he can control
the renowned Egyptian bad boy of soccer.
Big prediction by Nazif -- 6
per cent growth this year.
Oxford Business Group looks at
details of the anti
trust law and its effect on Ezz steel.
Egypt trying to clean up
Mediterranean oil spill...
Meanwhile the wind
blows the slick towards Port Said.
Formally conjoined twin doing well
after surgery.
...
MORE WEB LOG
FEBRUARY 12
Analyzing
Sharm
FEBRUARY 5
Last
seperate
JANUARY 30
End
of tolerance?
JANUARY 24
No
legitimacy
JANUARY 20
Still
talking
about the election
JANUARY 12
Running
for prez
JANUARY 6
Nuke
charges
pop up again
JANUARY 3
Khafre's
turn
DECEMBER 29
His
own money
DECEMBER 23
Fayed
is back
DECEMBER 20
Waking
from
a deep slumber?
DECEMBER 17
"Make
undies,
not war"
DECEMBER 14
Bugging
Baradie
DECEMBER 12
It's
all about peace
DECEMBER 8
A
post-Arafat thaw?
DECEMBER 6
Six
students
for Azzam Azzam?
DECEMBER 2
Big
money
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2004
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