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February 19, 2005

 

Post Sharm moves
Egypt sending border guards to help contain Palestinian violence -- the figures appear at the Rice-Abul-Gheit press conference.

None of your business?
Reacting to Condoleeza Rice's comments about Ayman Nour, Reuters reports, "Egypt brushed aside U.S. criticism of its detention of an opposition party leader, saying it would not allow any outside intervention in legal proceedings." 
Meanwhile, another pro-Nour US editorial appears, this time from the Baltimore Sun.

DOMESTIC POLTICS Businessman and former MP Mohamed Farid Hassanein officially submits his presidential election platform... 

An LA Times look at the Omar Suleiman versus Gamal Mubarak debate...

UPDATED! 
What's next for TV after the cabinet reshuffle?
Analysts saying Beltagiu-El-Fiqi Youth-Sports ministries switch "gives further prominence to a younger generation of ministers." No answer to that yet, but there is a quick Reuters take on the ministerial flip flop between Mamdouh El-Beltagui, who's now at Youth, and Anas El-Fiqi, who moved from there to Information.

UPDATED!
NATIONAL UNITY
Coptic Bishop who is a calming influence in New Jersey community feted by local media there...
Investigators digging deeper into Coptic murder in New Jersey...
Meanwhile, unknown whether the Coptic family's plea to the Justice Department to take over the case will heat up sectarian tensions once more...

DEATHS
Egypt's former queen Nariman Sadek, second wife of King Farouk, died in a Cairo hospital...

Thabet El-Batal, Egypt's former goalkeeper and a 1986 African Cup of Nations winner, has passed away...

GLOBAL SOCCER
Egyptian international soccer star gets in trouble for buying a stolen watch.

MISC
N'Dour's Egypt album gets a grammy!

Studying ancient Egyptian rocks...

The new Nile IMAX film gets a good review...

Results of Tutankhamun's CT in March...

Egyptian comics make the Washington Post

BBC tries to do a human interest piece in Cairo as part of a Being Young in the Arab world series...

 

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Ghad's woes

FEBRUARY 12
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FEBRUARY 5
Last seperate

JANUARY 30
End of tolerance?

JANUARY 24
No legitimacy

JANUARY 20
Still talking
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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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