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Sunday
January 30, 2005
Onward Africa!
Egypt seeking a wider
continental role at an African summit...
Decision time
On his way to the summit, President Hosni Mubarak makes it pretty
clear that he will be running
for president this year...
End of tolerance?
Meanwhile, Reuters reports that newly approved Ghad party leader
Ayman Nour was taken
in for questioning on Saturday for allegedly forging power of
attorney documents. Nour was one of the most forceful proponents arguing
that the way in which the president is elected be changed... Reuters
says "the detention raised the political temperature in Egypt,
where this year's presidential and parliamentary elections will take
place under closer than usual international scrutiny because of the U.S.
campaign for Middle East democracy."
Plus, more trouble for
Saadeddin Ibrahim... Khaleej Times reports on a lawsuit...
No nukes
Egypt completely committed to transparency on its peaceful
nuclear experiments -- it may not have revealed everything because
it didn't know
it had to...
Palestinian and Israeli
tracks...
Egypt steps up its Palestine
related security cooperation -- training policemen, and
bringing the factions together again...
Meanwhile, Reuters
reports that "an Egyptian court on Saturday dismissed
a case demanding compensation from Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon over accusations Israeli forces tortured and killed
Egyptian prisoners of war during the Middle East war of 1967."
It's official
Mido off to Tottenham...
Back track
Malaysian tour not
going to take place -- but the belly dancing cruise (as reported
earlier) is not why...
Urfi renegade
In a controversial article on Muslim Wake Up, an Egyptian American
celebrates the scandalous Hind El-Hennawy Ahmed El-Fishawy urfi
baby tale... This controversial article elicited a lot of
comments from Muslim Wake Up's readers -- make sure to check them
out.
Plus, here's the original
New York Times coverage
of the Hennawy Fishawi scandal that inspired the piece.
6 babies
5 girls and a boy for Egyptian couple... this Turkish site also
provides a picture
of the new tots...
Shattered community?
Salt Lake Tribune looks at the shattered
Egyptian community in New Jersey. Authorities continue to deny
a religious motive for the slaying of a Coptic family, but others
speak of the dead man's frequent insults to Islam on chat rooms...
Plus, more on the same
from the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Odd case?
Scant details on the alleged Iranian spy's trial
from BBC.
Big gift
Huge charity gift
from Bill Gates -- who happens to currently be in Cairo -- to go
towards combating polio in Egypt...
Web posted by
Tarek Atia Monday, January 30, 2005 14:30 CAIRO
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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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