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Complicated
conference
The big Mideast reform conference
that US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was supposed to attend
in Cairo in March has been delayed
indefinitely... Wafd
reacts strongly to rumors of the delay being a result of negative
US pressure, and Jihad El-Khazen weighs in on the topic in Hayat.
Get links to both in Arabic on zahma.com.
And here's the
El-Khazen column
in translation...
DOMESTIC
POLITICS
BBC's report on yet
another kifaya protest,
this one in front of Cairo U. Reuters has a go
at it as well...
UPDATED!
Not
letting up
Wafd
gets really worked up about the Post's editorial... Check
it out on zahma.com
Reports on Ayman Nour
beginning a hunger
strike and anonymous assailants accosting a Ghad party
meeting...
Washington
Post pens its harshest
take yet on detained
Ghad party chairman Ayman
Nour, after
Nour falls ill
during investigations and is taken to hospital... Nour had
previously distanced
the Ghad party from such foreign calls for his release... Meanwhile, those calls continue; the latest editorial -- in
the Christian Science Monitor -- slams
Egypt hard, and urges Bush to use aid as a pressure tool.
Mobile politics
In Philippines style
cellular politics, many Mobinil mobile phone users received SMS
text messages on Saturday asking them to support Nour.
Vodaphone
users' network was down for several hours at around
the same time.
Catch Akhbar's coverage on zahma.com.
SYRIA
Mubarak sends
intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to Syria to mediate
on upcoming post-Hariri assassination steps... Plus, AFP's story
on the same...
Syrian
Foreign Minister coming to Cairo for talks...
ISRAEL
"Israel
must withdraw
from the Salaheddin corridor before Egyptian forces move into the
Egyptian-Palestinian border line," Egyptian Foreign Minister
Ahmed Abul-Gheit told reporters.
A kinder, gentler
Sharon is portrayed by the Ahram interview
with the
Israeli Prime Minister, who made positive
comments about Egypt's peace efforts. AP also makes
a big deal
about it.
Meanwhile, Israel evacuates
Gaza border with Egypt...
Mohamed Assem
named Egypt's new ambassador
to Tel Aviv...
...
MORE WEB LOG
FEBRUARY
19
Post
Sharm moves
FEBRUARY
17
Controversial
politics
FEBRUARY
15
Ghad's
woes
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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2004
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2004
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