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March 13, 2005

 

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DOMESTIC POLITICS

Protest nation?
Protests in Egypt are being increasingly covered by the local and international press.
Thomas Friedman celebrates the little-reported protests by factory workers wanting to be part of the QIZ deal with Israel as evidence of a new Middle East rising... Meanwhile, Jazeera's is the first English site to cover the air traffic controllers sit in at Cairo airport, which has been covered pretty extensively by Wafd in Arabic as made clear by zahma.com...
Papers like Wafd now regularly announce protests beforehand, rather than just report on them. 
Protests are also being directed at much more local events -- like the demo against landowner and police collusion reported by FT. There was also another demo in Sinai against mass post-Taba bombings arrests. Earlier, women took part in a similar protest in Arish.
In fact, even as parliament formally passed the new presidential elections constitutional amendment, protestors gathered outside to complain that it really only serves the regime.
In a commentary he later expanded on in the Washington Post, Gulf News columnist Youssef Ibrahim sees much hope in kifaya movement style protest spreading across the Arab world. 

 

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