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The Age
| 11 months ago
The Age June 20, 2012 Opinion Read later FOR more than 30 years under the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, political power in Egypt was effectively in the hands of the army and its commanders. The army's great rival was the Muslim Brotherhood, which,...
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Mail Online UK
| 11 months ago
19 June 2012 A mass demonstration is expected in Cairo later on today after the military dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament, claiming all legislative power for themselves. Crowds have begun gathering outside the Egyptian parliament after...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
A campaign spokesman for Hosni Mubarak 's ex-prime minister said Tuesday that Ahmed Shafiq has won Egypt's presidential election, countering the Muslim Brotherhood 's claims that its candidate was the winner and setting the stage for a divisive fight...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
The Muslim Brotherhood maneuvered Tuesday to cement its victory claim in Egypt's historic presidential election as it called on demonstrators to take to the streets to protest a military decree that weakens the role of the presidency. Officials from...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers vowed to show up at Egypt's military-protected Parliament Tuesday in defiance of a court ruling dissolving the legislature. The brotherhood said Egypt's Supreme Court -- 18 judges, appointed mostly during the Mubarak...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images Children wave flags as they and other Egyptian supporters celebrate a premature victory for their presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi in Tahrir Square on June 18, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian candidates Mohamed...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
June 18, 2012 9:11 PM A scholar says many Egyptians are expressing concern about the impact of the Muslim Brotherhood's policies on their secular lives after the Islamic group claimed victory in the presidential run-off vote.
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Truthdig
| 11 months ago
Though the official announcement of the winner in the presidential election isn't due until later this week, results on Monday showed a clear majority for Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, over regime candidate Ahmed Shafiq...In the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jun. 18 2012, 7:00 PM EDT Last updated Monday, Jun. 18 2012, 6:15 PM EDT The actions in the past few days of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt are almost impossible to distinguish from a coup d'etat.
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Long, winding path to democracy With its bid to declare parliament invalid, the military council has given the initiative back to the Muslim Brotherhood Editorial In retrospect, the counter-revolution turned into a comedy of errors. The biggest...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
But just as polls were closing, the ruling military council issued constitutional amendments that gave sweeping authority to maintain its grip on power and subordinate the nominal head of state. Monday to honour its promise to hand over power to the...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Analysis Military wins power game in Egypt this time round The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' moves to retain power have temporarily worked, but the Brotherhood will regroup Members of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces at a press...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
After polls closed, military leaders gave themselves a tighter grip on power. June 18 (UPI) -- Egyptian revolutionaries called for mass demonstrations Tuesday in Cairo to protest what they said was a military coup. The ruling Supreme Council of Armed...
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War In Context
| 11 months ago
It gave Morsi's opponent Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq 48.1% out of 25.5 million votes...But a statement from Ahmed Shafiq's campaign claimed he was ahead beyond all doubt . Shafiq's media spokesman Ahmed Sarhan accused the...
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AKI
| 11 months ago
Egypt's powerful military said at the end of June it will hand over power to the winner of the first free presidential election in the world's most populous Arab country as the Muslim Brotherhood claimed claimed victory for its Islamist candidate. "...
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Denver Post
| 11 months ago
Monday to honor its promise to hand over power to the newly elected president by the end of this month, hours after Islamist candidate Mohammed Morsi claimed victory in the first free presidential vote since the ouster of authoritarian leader Hosni...
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MarketWatch
| 11 months ago
Egypt's weekend elections ended in a disputed result as Mohamed Morsi, the Islamic candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood, on Monday declared victory and as Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister, refused to concede. Shelling in Homs, Syria, worsens...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 11 months ago
Egypt's official news agency is quoting a senior member of the ruling military council as saying the generals will hand over power to the newly elected president at the end of the month...Mohammed al-Assar as saying the transfer of power will take...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Egypt's military grabbed sweeping powers and made the president a figurehead shortly before the Muslim presidential candidate claimed victory. The constitutional decree, published in the official state gazette, gives the military absolute control of...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Elizabeth Arrott June 18, 2012 (Cairo) The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi has claimed victory in Egypt's first post-uprising presidential race. But the rival camp of old guard candidate Ahmed Shafiq disputes the unofficial results, while the...
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Taiwan News
| 11 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-06-18 11:51 AM Egypt's Egypt Brotherhood has claimed on Monday that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi won Egypt's fist free presidential election with 52 percent of...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood claimed early Monday that its candidate Mohammed Morsi is leading in the country's first presidential election since Hosni Mubarak's ouster more than a year ago. Mr. Morsi, an engineering professor, is leading with 61 per...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Voter turnout was lower than expected in Egypt's presidential runoff Sunday, with the Muslim Brotherhood saying its candidate was leading in unofficial returns. Brotherhood officials said the results it had obtained late Sunday from more than 1,200...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
Partial results show a tight race in Egypt's presidential election between the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq. According to results made public by the Muslim Brotherhood, from just over 80 percent of the...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
An official of the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it appears there was low voter turnout during Egypt's two-day presidential round-off vote. Clottey interview with Heba Morayef, a researcher with Human Rights Watch (HRW) Heba Morayef,...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Ahmed Shafiq, the Mubarak-era representative, and an Islamist, Mohammed Morsi - were claiming their man was in the lead. Turnout appeared low compared with the 46 percent reported in last month's first round - a sign of dampening morale as the...
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The Courier-Mail
| 11 months ago
In a sign of how much power they wield, the military generals were preparing to define the next president's authorities in an interim constitutional declaration that state media said could come by tomorrow. Under the declaration, the council of...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Welcome to a special edition of Middle East Live on the final stages of Egypt's presidential election. The two-day poll is a runoff between former prime minister and air-force commander, Ahmed Shafiq, and the Muslim Brotherhood's second choice...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Egypt entered its final day of voting on Sunday with very few people going to the polls to choose Hosni Mubarak's successor under a cloud of apprehension and anticipation. Turnout appeared dismal in a sign of just how polarizing and demoralizing the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
It could have been a fitting culmination to Egypt's quest for democracy, but the last day of the presidential run-off to elect Hosni Mubarak's successor was marked by low voter turnout and a general disenchantment. With a truncated finale that has...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
The army secured key buildings across the Egyptian capital Cairo yesterday (Saturday) as voters cast their ballots in a presidential election many claimed had already been fixed in the military's favour. Troops and riot police were in position...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
That enthusiasm and joy to be voting in a free election for the first time had given way to resignation, during the second round of presidential voting, which started yesterday...Perhaps that was most evident with Hussein, a Cairo taxi driver that...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
Egyptians are choosing between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in a second day of a presidential runoff that has been overshadowed by the domination of the country's military. Going head-to-head in the runoff are Ahmed...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News June 16, 2012 Egyptian voters go to the polls Sunday in the second day of a presidential run-off to choose the country's next president after massive protests led to former leader Hosni Mubarak's resignation last year. The voters have a...
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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
The vote pits Ahmed Shafiq, ousted President Hosni Mubarak's last Prime Minister, against Mohamed Morsi of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, reports Sky News. It is a stark choice for many secular, moderate Egyptians who are unnerved by both...
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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
Since the Arab Spring revolution that toppled the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak in February last year, Egypt has not been at ease and the decision of the Supreme court to dissolve the Islamist dominated parliament, deepens the level of...
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Africa Headlines
| 11 months ago
Voters Begin Casting Ballots in Nation's Presidential Run-Off 16 June 2012 Voting in the second round of Egypt's presidential election got off to a quiet start on Saturday with queues at polling station noticeably smaller than last month's first...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
With the ruling military council reasserting its control over the legislative process by moving to formally dissolve the recently-elected Parliament in line with a court order, there was much uncertainty around the political future of the country.
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
Greg Myre After some unexpected political drama this week, Egyptians are choosing a president Saturday, and the choice reflects the deep divisions in the country that has been unsettled since its revolution last year. On the one side is Mohammed...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
Egypt Moussa Salama Moussa navigated Mount Sinai 's treacherous cliffs by the glow of the moon and stars almost every night for 25 years until Egypt's revolution. Now, it's been weeks since he's made the trek alongside other Bedouin guides and...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
UN Chief Hopes Egypt's Presidential Run-Off Poll Proceeds Peacefully New York, Jun 15 2012 5:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his strong hope that the final round of Egypt's presidential elections will proceed this weekend in a...
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Denver Post
| 11 months ago
On Friday, Tahrir Square stood relatively empty, sapped of the spirit and optimism of the 2011 revolution that made it possible for Egyptians to choose their own president for the first time in history. Not many demonstrators turned out to protest...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 11 months ago
Egyptians have started voting in the country's presidential runoff, choosing between Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister and an Islamist candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood...It will produce Egypt's first president since a popular uprising last year...
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Zawya Political
| 11 months ago
Ahmed Shafiq, who faces Islamist candidate Mohammed Mursi in Egypt's two-day presidential run-off, is a retired general and Mubarak-era minister reviled by activists who spearheaded the 2011 revolt. Shafiq gained support as a candidate in the country'...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Egyptians sit in front of graffiti showing faces of people killed in the 2011 revolution, right, and the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, casting his vote, center, in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt,...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Egypt ians will be electing their president in the two-day presidential run-off which begins on Saturday. In what many call as the lesser of the two evils, the presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood; he faces Mubarak'...
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Town Journal
| 11 months ago
The Record Egyptian-Americans in North Jersey who hailed the downfall of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak 16 months ago are worried that chaos will descend on their native country again now that its top court has dissolved parliament and...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
The runoff vote set for Saturday and Sunday pits Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, against head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Mohammed Mursi. The country is in chaos, all thanks to the Supreme Constitutional...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
Egyptians will begin voting on Saturday in a two-day run-off election to choose their first freely-elected president. Mohammed Mursi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, is up against Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak's last prime...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
Story Protesters take part in a demonstration at Tahrir square in Cairo June 8, 2012 Reuters Watch The small scale of public protest was a surprising and revealing development. It came just one day before the country votes in the final round of the...
