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War In Context
| 1 year ago
According to a lieutenant colonel with direct knowledge of the protest, the men were angry about the punishment given to a fellow officer by his superiors. After refusing to train, the officers demanded to meet either Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate warns that upcoming Egyptian elections might be affected by fraud and violence now that his group is facing off against ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's spy chief. Khairat al-Shater, who is also the Islamist group's...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
A high court in Egypt said it ruled in favor of a lawsuit questioning whether the formation of a constitutional assembly was legal. Presidential candidate Khaled Ali, a prominent Egyptian democracy activist, was among those who challenged the 100-...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Text running alongside the image says "Omar Suleiman: Working for Israel's best interest." Related: Suleiman said Friday he would run for Egypt's presidency, reversing an announcement he had made just the day before. He had briefly pulled out of the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Shater delivered the address, entitled "The Islamic Renaissance Project," in Alexandria on April 21, 2011, less than two months after his release from prison. The veteran Brotherhood financier had served four years of a seven-year sentence for money...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
The ruling issued Tuesday follows complaints from lawyers and liberal political parties who say the Islamist majority in the new parliament abused its powers by allocating a majority of the panel's seats to themselves and like-minded individuals.
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Democracy Now
| 1 year ago
As Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief Omar Suleiman announces he will run for president and Egypt teeters on the edge of an economic crisis, we discuss the state of post-revolution Egypt with Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous, based in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Tantawi as saying, adding that the army was "neutral" toward all candidates. Figures from the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak, who stood down early last year after a popular uprising, have been trying to make a comeback, with Mubarak's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
An administrative court in Egypt on Saturday blocked opposition figure Ayman Nur from running in next month's presidential election, the official news agency Mena reported on Saturday. The court ruled him out under the terms of a law disqualifying...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
They sit at opposite ends of Egypt's political spectrum and one of them was jailed by a government in which the other was chief of intelligence...The Muslim Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater and Hosni Mubarak's head spy Omar Suleiman have moved firmly...
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Israel National News
| 1 year ago
Although many support his bid, he has received a significant number of threats. Islamist parties have declared that they would do everything they could to ensure that he is not elected, with a spokesperson for the Salafist party saying that we will...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The field has narrowed from some 1,500 applicants to a final 10 candidates and, like in Egypt as a whole, the election will be a battle between reformists and ideologues, conservatives and revolutionaries. Below are the five candidates...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
April 9, 2012 In Egypt, next month's presidential election has undergone a wrenching several days. First, leading Islamist candidates faced possible disqualification on legal grounds, and then, hours before the deadline to register, a leading face...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Proposal to Oust Former Regime Figures From Presidential Race Approved 9 April 2012 Egypt's parliamentary proposal committee approved in its meeting on Monday a draft law proposal that prevents figures from Mubarak's regime to run for president in...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's strongest political movement, and thus a top contender. A behind-the-scenes operator, el-Shater, 61, is the top Brotherhood strategist and a chief financier. Educated as an engineer, el-Shater is a...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
59 Egypt's former vice president and intelligence chief has said he would not attempt to "reinvent" the regime of Hosni Mubarak if he is elected president of Egypt. Omar Suleiman, who is running in the presidential elections slated to begin on May 23,...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Egypt's former intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, has strongly criticised the Muslim Brotherhood and insisted he would restore stability as president. In an interview published in Egyptian newspapers, Gen Suleiman suggested the Islamist group had...
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HNN
| 1 year ago
Sundown Friday marks the beginning of Passover , the commemoration of the Jews' emancipation from enslavement in ancient Egypt . This year Passover falls on a day of enormous significance in the struggle for freedom in modern Egypt April 6. That date...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
An Egyptian court will hear a suit seeking to prevent Hosni Mubarak's former intelligence chief and his last prime minister from running for the presidency, a judicial source said on Monday.
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Guardian Unlimited
| 1 year ago
Omar Suleiman has sought to distance himself from Mubarak's regime. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters Omar Suleiman , who is running in the elections due on 23-24 May, told the state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper that restoring security would be his top...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Omar Suleiman said he received death threats from the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups after becoming a candidate for president of Egypt. Suleiman, who was intelligence chief under former President Hosni Mubarak , submitted his candidacy for the...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Supporters of former Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman chant in front of his posters out side the Higher Presidential Elections Commission, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, April 8, 2012. Hosni Mubarak's former vice president and spy chief says he will...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 1 year ago
Navy says it has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear program. At least 25 people were killed on Monday when fighters from an al Qaeda-linked group attacked a military camp near the...
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Globes Online
| 1 year ago
47, Globes' correspondent The quiet in Sinai has been broken again. Last night, terrorists blew up the natural gas pipeline leading to Israel and Jordan for the 14th time since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. "The blast took place in the...
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Israel National News
| 1 year ago
The 75-year-old Suleiman is associated with the regime of deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Egypt's former spy chief says not backed by Army Cairo: Hosni Mubarak's former intelligence chief said his bid for the presidency does not have the support of Egypt's military rulers and accused Islamists of sending him death threats, an Egyptian...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-04-09 12:27 PM Egypt's first presidential race since Hosni Mubarak's ouster had a rocky start as Islamists and one of the former regime's most powerful figures...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
Former President Hosni Mubarak's intelligence chief and vice president filed papers in Egypt on Sunday declaring himself a presidential candidate. His entry gives Egyptians a chance to cast a vote against the revolution and for the old order. The...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Mubarak's fall; pipeline remains closed from similar explosion in February. An explosion hit the Egyptian pipeline carrying gas to Israel and Jordan on Monday for 14th time since the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak began last year, security...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
The deadline for registering as a presidential candidate has passed in Egypt, ahead of the country's first post-revolutionary polls. Twenty-three candidates have submitted bids, including a last-minute application from former intelligence chief Omar...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Mohamed Morsi joins Khairat al-Shater, a veteran Brotherhood financier, as the Brotherhood's nominees despite the group's earlier pledge not to run any presidential contenders at all. Morsi appears to be the Brotherhood's backup candidate the...
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Daily Nation
| 1 year ago
Rating Registration for candidacy in Egypt's first post-uprising presidential election closed on Sunday, amid last-minute twists and turns that have shaken the political race. Around 20 people have registered so far, each hoping to lead the Arab...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
But he warned the Brotherhood would not back a $3.2 billion emergency IMF loan requested by the army-backed government unless the terms are changed or the government steps down and lets a new administration oversee how the funds are spent. In an...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
He will only win through forgery and, if this happens, the revolution will kick off again." (Reuters)
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Reuters Egyptian supporters of presidential candidate and Egypt's former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, Photograph: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters The intelligence chief of Egypt 's deposed leader Hosni Mubarak formally joined the race for the...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's long-time spy chief Omar Suleiman has officially joined the country's crowded presidential race, billing himself as a counterweight to influential Islamist candidates. Mubarak appointed Mr Suleiman as his...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
14 Former Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman enters the presidential election committee building in Cairo on April 7, 2012 to register his name for the upcoming presidential elections on May 23-24 (AFP Photo / Mahnoud Khaled) (39.3Mb) embed...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
He had needed to collect the signatures of 30,000 eligible voters by Sunday's deadline in order to take part.(Reuters)
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
33 Registration for candidacy in Egypt's presidential election is nearing an end amid last-minute twists and turns that have shaken the race. Sixteen candidates have registered so far, each hoping to lead the Arab world's most populous nation through...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Egyptian parliamentary speaker Saad al-Katani accompanied Mohamed Morsi, who chairs the FJP, to the political parties office in order to file the requisite papers to begin the process of entering the presidential race, Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram...
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Zawya Regional
| 1 year ago
The abrupt entrance into Egypt's presidential race of a former loyalist to the Mubarak regime, the official arrival of a Muslim Brotherhood candidate and the potential exit of a populist Islamist preacher upset expectations about who would dominate...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Story continues below Suleiman still enjoys some support among Egyptians who, especially in light of the tumultuous post-Mubarak transition, view him as a symbol of stability and moderation, especially when contrasted with some of the unfamiliar,...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
Egypt's most powerful political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has announced it is nominating the head of its party as a back-up candidate for president in the face of attempts to disqualify their primary nominee. Other politicians also battled on...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Several Islamist officials in Egypt have condemned a run for president by Hosni Mubarak 's former intelligence chief and vice president, Omar Suleiman . Suleiman announced his bid for the presidency Friday in Cairo after hundreds of supporters...
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Haaretz
| 1 year ago
The news from Cairo sounded like it was coming from another place and time, perhaps near the end of the Hosni Mubarak era...Omar Suleiman, former head of Egyptian military intelligence during the deposed leader's reign, also announced his candidacy...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
For months, the proverbial foreign hand cast a shadow over Egypt's transition to democracy. Now, the curse of the foreign passport has emerged as a potential spoiler in next month's landmark presidential race. According to Egyptian law, all...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Like Mubarak, whose three-decade rule ended in February 2011 in a popular uprising, Suleiman has kept far from the public gaze during the past year of turbulent military rule. Mubarak appointed Suleiman as his vice president in the dying days of his...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Ernesto Londono April 8, 2012 Read later He's back supporters hold up posters of Omar Suleiman. S powerful spy chief under the deposed president Hosni Mubarak has roiled the country's presidential race by announcing his candidacy and presenting...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 1 year ago
Iran has the knowledge and scientific capability to produce nuclear weapons but will never do so, a prominent lawmaker has said. The airport in the Yemeni capital was closed on Saturday after threats by forces loyal to a general close to former...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 1 year ago
Gaza's Hamas rulers on Saturday executed a Palestinian convicted of collaborating with Israel and two others deemed complicit in murder, the interior ministry said. Malawi's state radio announced on Saturday that President Bingu wa Mutharika had died,...
