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March
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DOMESTIC
POLITICS
Ayman Nour is finally released
-- albeit it on LE10,000 bail.
The investigation into the alleged forging of Ghad party memberships is
ongoing...
Earlier, the Washington Post ran this longish,
interesting feature on Nour.
Meanwhile, the Ghad party's newspaper finally appears
on the newsstands. Its first front page features party chairman Nour's presidential
candidacy announcement.
Initially, it was reported that the first issue of
Al-Ghad had been stopped before distribution...
BBC looks at his potential chances
plus Nour himself makes an appearance via a jailhouse
letter to Newsweek entitled "Did
I take democracy too seriously?"
Earlier,
AP's new, longish feature
on the jailed politician got wide play....
SPORTS
Mido back on track --
set to play for Egypt against Libya.
Earlier, Mido
was called a Shoe Bomber by racist
UK fans... Here's BBC's more sanitized
version of the story.
Even earlier,
Egypt left
Mido
and other European-based players out of the squad for a
friendly against Saudi Arabia in Dammam.
Plus,
the US and Egypt end up in the same under
20 Youth
soccer championship group.
ECONOMY
There's
powerful backing
for Egypt's bid to get a free trade agreement with the US from a
Washington group...
Meanwhile, the Arabic press is following Industry Minister Rashid's Washington
trip very closely on zahma.com. Meanwhile,
"Egypt's central bank said that net foreign reserves rose to
$17.32
billion
at the end of February, reaching their highest level since 1999..."
REGION
Israeli Defense Minister
Mofaz was
in Cairo to discuss security and
political issues...
Plus, in a separate
meeting on Syria, the
UN's Terje Roed-Larsen sees 'eye
to eye'
with Mubarak, says the Daily Star.
...
MORE WEB LOG
MARCH
7
Ramsis,
Tut and the winds of democratic change
MARCH 5
Coptic
resolution
MARCH
3
Egyptomania
and more, part 2
FEBRUARY
27 - MARCH 1
Mubarak proposal reactions
FEBRUARY
25
Lots
of miscellaneous
FEBRUARY
23
Egyptomania
and more
FEBRUARY
21
Complicated
conference
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
NOVEMBER
2004
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2004
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2004
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