Saul of Tarsus, later St. Paul the Apostle, was met on his way to Damascus by the Lord of Lords and was asked the same question the Lord ‘Allah Almighty’ asks you President Mubarak. You are the head of a country which has deteriorated down to an abyss, where citizens of one religio...

 Alarabiya, 9/1/2010 Wife of controversial Egyptian rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim denied reports that her husband signed a document supporting the presidency of Gamal Mubarak, son of the incumbent Hosni Mubarak. Dr. Barbara Ibrahim dismissed allegations that her husband, sociology profes...

 By Marwa Awad - CAIRO, Aug 30 2010 (Reuters) - Pro-democracy activist Saadeddin Ibrahim has signed a petition supporting the political ambitions of the Egyptian president's son, riling the opposition who say the move undermines their call for political change. The move by Ibrahim, a long...

 AP, 9/2/2010 CAIRO — A group of activists have hung up posters around Egypt's capital supporting the country's intelligence chief as a possible candidate in next year's presidential elections. Launched Thursday, the campaign for Omar Suleiman is the latest stab against a possible fat...

 The Daily Star Lebanon, 8/31/2010 A number of recent indicators point toward a gathering momentum in Egypt for Gamal Mubarak to succeed his father Hosni in the presidential election slated for next year. Posters have sprouted throughout Cairo touting Mubarak the younger’s economic achie...

 Hareetz, 8/31/2010 Gamal Mubarak, son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, will accompany his father to this week's Washington peace summit in what may be the clearest sign yet that he is being groomed for the succession. Gamal has long been the center of speculation that he will replace his...

 CAIRO, Aug. 23 2010 (UPI) -- A Muslim Brotherhood boycott of elections set for Egypt in November is the best way to convince Cairo to pursue political change, Mohamed ElBaradei declared. ElBaradei, a former U.N. nuclear watchdog chief, returned to Cairo in February adding fuel to speculation ...

The Independent, 8/24/2010 So here comes the latest Egyptian joke about 82-year-old President Hosni Mubarak. The president, a keen squash player – how else could he keep his jet-black hair? – calls up the sheikh of Al-Azhar, the highest Sunni Muslim cleric in the land, to ask if there a...

 Dr Ahmed Fathy Sorour has been Speaker of the People’s Assembly (PA)—the lower house of Egypt’s parliament—for some two decades today. Throughout this extended period he has succeeded in winning the general respect of Egyptians for what was seen as his objectivity and i...

 8/27/2010 - CAIRO (Reuters) - The son of Egypt's leader said on Thursday that food subsidies were easing the burden of rising prices in an interview on state television that boosted his public profile ahead of a 2011 presidential election. President Hosni Mubarak, in power since 1981, ha...

 CAIRO, Aug 25 2010 (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling party backs veteran President Hosni Mubarak, 82, for another term if he seeks one next year, officials said on Wednesday, while adding that his son Gamal could also be among possible future candidates. The remarks were consistent with positions th...

NPR, 8/26/2010 Young Egyptians are using social media to fight police brutality and urge a more open government. Critics say that not a single Arab dictator has been overthrown by protests on the Web. But young activists say their goal is to raise awareness among Egyptians. Wael Abbas is one of th...

 August 26, 2010 | LA Times Businessman and head of Wafd political party, Sayed Badawi has concluded the acquisition of Egypt's biggest opposition and most outspoken newspaper, Al Dustour. "A number of shareholders, who believe in Al Dustour's role in defending liberties and calls for...

 Aug 26th 2010 | The Economist FOR the past decade, Gamal Mubarak, the son of President Hosni Mubarak and now the number two in Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), has denied any wish to succeed his father. When asked about his future, the younger Mubarak prefers to say only ...

 LA TImes, 8/24/10 - The Popular Coalition for Supporting Gamal Mubarak launched a campaign to promote the nomination of the president's son in next year's elections. But millions of Egyptians have been wondering about the real force behind the movement. Last month marked the beginning of...

AP, 8/22/10 - CAIRO — Posters have sprouted up around Egypt promoting President Hosni Mubarak's younger son as the country's next leader, in the most overt campaign yet for a controversial father-son succession in this key U.S. Arab ally. For the last decade, it has been believed that Gamal M...

 Article translated for CAA by Ed Shafik from the original article by Ebtasam Thalb & Mauhmoud Ramsy, published in AlMasry Alyoum on 8-19-2010 In a meeting held at Hizb Al Tagammo, representatives from four Egyptian Political Parties (Hizb El Wafd, Nasserist Party, Hizb al Tagammo, and H...

 سامي البحيري GMT 14:00:00 2010 الخميس 22 يوليو من أجمل النكت القديمة والتى أتذكرها دائما فى ذكرى 23 يوليو عام 1952، هو أن مقدمة برنامج على الناصية آمال فهمى إقتربت من أحد المواطنين وقالت له: إحنا دلوقت بنحتفل بذكرى "ثورة" 23 يوليو، ياترى تقدر تقول لنا رأيك فى الثورة؟ فقال المواطن: ...

 ابتسام تعلب ومحمود رمزى 19/ 8/ 2010 تصوير ــ محمد حسام الدين جانب من اجتماع قيادات الأحزاب بمقر حزب التجمع اتفقت أحزاب الائتلاف الرباعى «الوفد والناصرى والتجمع والجبهة» على ضرورة دعوة مجلس الشعب للانعقاد فى نوفمبر المقبل لتجنب «المأزق الدستورى» الخاص بالمادة 101 م...

 أخشى أن يتحول وفد سعد إلى.. وفد سعاد!! خليل حنا رزق عضو حزب الوفد بالقاهرة أما سعد فهو الزعيم خالد الذكر "سعد باشا زغلول– مؤسس حزب الوفد ومفجر ثورة الوحدة الوطنية" وأما سعاد فهي فضيلة الشيخة "سعاد صالح"– مفتية حزب الوفد ومكفرة الأقباط" ففي أول أيام انضما...

VOA, 8/17/2010 Today, we continue looking at the question of whether new media - Facebook, blogging, tweeting - can bring democracy to the Middle East. We've heard from those who are critical of U.S. attempts to train Arab youth to be political activists. They argue that new media function mere...

CAIRO (Reuters) - A campaign led by potential presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei has gathered some 770,000 signatures to press for constitutional change in Egypt, its members say, adding impetus to demands for political reform. The National Coalition for Change began online, has taken to the ...

Daily News Egypt, 8/13/2010 - CAIRO: Since his return to Egypt, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, founder of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, has been under a special kind of siege. His wife Barbara is reluctant to let him talk to the media, concerned that his statements might lead to another run-...

Almasry Alyoum, 8/10/2010 The Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, which is holding a press conference today to promote its new annual report, “Civil society and Democratic transformation in the Arab World 2009,” is calling on NGOs to join in monitoring upcoming parliamentary el...

 Almasry Alyoum, 8/11/2010 Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the Egyptian dissident and human rights activist who recently returned to Egypt from exile in the US, delivered his first public talk since his return. The head of Ibn Khaldun Center for Developmental Studies said that the US seeks democracy in E...

 By Essam Fadl / Special to Daily News Egypt August 2, 2010, 1:31 pm CAIRO: Under the slogan "Our Egypt is our right", the April 6 Youth Movement launched a campaign targeting the leaders of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and ministers' constituencies around Cairo.   Th...

 LA Times, 8/6/2010 Egypt's political cyber war is intensifying after hackers played havoc with the Facebook page of Gamal Mubarak, the son of President Hosni Mubarak and a possible presidential contender in 2011. The hackers posted a new group photo of Gamal with a red X running through his ...

Almasry Alyoum, 8/5/2010 Dozens of young political activists were chased by security forces through the streets of the capital on Thursday while attempting to hang posters depicting Gamal Mubarak--son of President Hosni Mubarak and possible candidate in next year's presidential elections--under who...

 أعلن حزب الإصلاح والتنمية " تحت التأسيس"، رفضه الكامل لقرار وزير الداخلية رقم 1340 لسنة 2010 الخاص بتعديل بعض أحكام القرار 293 لسنة 1984، بإجراءات ترشيح وانتخاب أعضاء مجلس الشعب، وذلك كما هو تم نشره بالوقائع المصرية ملحق الجريدة الرسمية العدد رقم 144لسنة 183 هـ.كما أعلن الحزب تقدمه ب...

There are several categories to consider when discussing the upcoming, possibly cataclysmic event of the presidential elections. Among these are the combatants (not candidates), the alliances and the plight of the vanquished and the mere bystanders. Most scholars of Egyptian affairs, political o...

Translated for CAA by Ed Shafik from the original article published by CoptReal The Party spokesperson released the following statement: When the massacre in Nag Hammadi occurred, we said that this was not the first criminal incident against the Copts and nor it would be the last. We said that ...

 VOA News, 7/22/2010 The Egyptian government is denying reports that President Hosni Mubarak's health is failing, pointing to his recent hosting of several regional leaders. But brief, televised appearances have done little to quell rumors that the 82-year-old president is sicker than the gov...

 AP, 7/26/10 CAIRO - A top Egyptian ruling party official says his party will elect its presidential candidate in May or June of next year, a few months ahead of a scheduled election. President Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt since 1981, could stand for re-election. But there have been c...

 Foreign Policy, 7/23/10 Egypt these days feels like a restless sea, pulling this way and that, without a clear direction. One can make a reasonable argument that all these shifting currents are really about economic and labor grievances, or human rights abuses, or the youth bulge, or the need...

7/29/10, JPOST  A nation-wide survey conducted in mid-2009 by the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies found that 47% of small and medium businesses in Egypt are forced to offer government clerks cash bribes in order to obtain business licenses and must continually b...

7/27/10, JPOST Campaign posters supporting the presidential candidacy of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's son are popping up across Cairo, local media is reporting. The posters, depicting the portrait of 47-year-old Gamal Mubarak, were signed by "the Popular Coalition for the Support of Gam...

 الخميس, 18 مارس 2010 صرح متحدث باسم حزب التجمع بما يلي: عندما وقعت مجزرة نجع حمادي أكد حزبنا أن هذه ليست أول الأحداث الإجرامية ضد الأقباط ولن تكون آخرها. وقلنا إنه طالما استمرت الحكومة علي موقفها المراوغ إزاء إصدار قانون عاجل وعادل وعاقل ينظم مسألة بناء الكنائس فإن الصدامات سوف تستمر. وقلنا إ...

 Jun 30, 2010 - Daily News Would-be candidate in next year's presidential election Mohamed ElBaradei on Tuesday met with U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey and other European ambassadors at his home, where he discussed Egypt's domestic political situation. "The meeting was at their...

Almasry Alyoum, 7/14/2010 While opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei’s National Association for Change (NAC) attempt to navigate resilient political waters in a quest for democratic reform, the Muslim Brotherhood has decided to throw its full support behind the campaign by promoting the NAC re...

7/12/10 - In a SPIEGEL interview, Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mohamed ElBaradei, 68, discusses the urge for change in his home country, possible cooperation with Islamists in the next election and the prospects of driving autocratic Hosni Mubarak out of office. SPIEGEL: Mr. ElBaradei,...

The Economist, 7/15/10 ONE of the endearing things about Egypt is that although nearly everyone fiddles, breaks or ignores the rules, everyone gamely pretends to respect them. Elections, for instance, are an elaborate charade. Rarely does turnout exceed 20%, and this from a list of registered voter...

 The Economist, 7/15/10 PRESIDENT Gamal Abdel Nasser brought Egypt dictatorship, economic ruin and humiliation in the six-day war with Israel. On his sudden death from a heart attack in 1970 Egyptians erupted in grief; some 5m people mobbed the funeral. His successor, Anwar Sadat, freed politi...

The Economist, 7/15/2010 THE fate of the Arab world’s two most important states lies in the hands of ageing autocrats. Hosni Mubarak, an 82-year-old air-force general who has ruled Egypt since 1981, is widely reported to be grievously ill. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who assumed the throne...

7/13/10 - World Tribune - LONDON — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was said to no longer be capable of functioning in his position. Diplomatic sources said Mubarak's condition has rapidly declined over the last month and his schedule was severely restricted. They said Mubarak was avoiding me...

7/15/10 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 82, attended an air force parade on Thursday, appearing in good health following talk suggesting he needed to travel abroad for more treatment, state television showed. Live coverage showed Mubarak, who had gallbladder surgery in Germany i...

HAREETZ, 7/8/10 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will leave for Egypt immediately after his visit to the United States to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Officials in Jerusalem confirmed news of the trip, first reported by Egyptian daily Al-Wafd. Netanyahu will update Mubarak on his m...

Hareetz, 7/7/10 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s health has taken a serious turn for the worse, with fears that the 83-year-old is suffering from cancer, Haaretz has learned. Mubarak made a surprise visit to Paris on Monday for meetings there with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Leban...

 CAIRO, July 2 2010 (UPI) -- Members of the ruling National Democratic Party in Cairo expressed their support for Egyptian diplomat Mohamed ElBaradei, the former IAEA chief said. ElBaradei said in an interview on national television that members of the NDP contacted him to say they "agree...

For people to live harmoniously in a civil society there has to be a form of equitable order which is generated from the people’s wishes and with their consent. Failing that, any group of people cannot be called a democracy. A democracy does not mean lack of law and order, rather, it means enf...

New York Times, 7/8/10 Egypt’s biggest opposition bloc, the Muslim Brotherhood, has set up a Web site to support Mohamed ElBaradei in his campaign for political reform. The Web site, joined by other opposition groups, has collected almost 3,000 signatures since its start late on Wednesday. Dr...