04 Thursday Jul 2013
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03 Wednesday Jul 2013
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TEMPLATE ANALYSIS
No one has benefited from the army’s decision to oust the country’s first democratically elected President – not the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters who took 51 per cent of the vote in the national elections, nor the celebrating mob who at best can conjure up 25 per cent at the ballot box.
Already, there is talk of putting in place a strong man, someone who will be able to deliver stability. And that may well be the best solution to prevent this nation from breaking apart.
For no election can ever be regarded as anything more than a sham, after what has just happened in Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood must have known they were living on borrowed time, but not even in their worst nightmares could they have imagined that they would last just one year.
Egypt has taken a step back today – the journey to modernity championed by Arab intellectuals has succumbed to the power of the mob, that Arab Street that the West has so warned us all of.
Perhaps, intellectuals in the West are right – the Arab mind is not capable of understanding a process as brilliant, yet as nuanced as democracy.
It hasn’t worked in Iraq, and now it’s completely failed in Egypt.
No one forced the crowds out on the street, they came of their own accord, and they will have to live with the consequences of their actions which could reverberate for decades to come.
Egypt may never recover from the army’ s prehistoric actions.
And as a result, we may just seen the beginning of the break-up of this north African state.
(Pictured above – the head of Egypt’s army Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi on state TV announcing that the constitution had been suspended and that the chief justice of the constitutional court would take on Mr Morsi’s powers)
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03 Wednesday Jul 2013
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Democracy, Egypt, Egypt and Mubarak, Egypt and Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt and Protests, Egypt Coup, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood
TEMPLATE ANALYSIS
With the army’s ‘sort it out’ deadline approaching, the democratically elected government of Mohammed Morsi remains defiant.
The Muslim Brotherhood did after all win elections for the presidency and the prime minster’s office, with turn out high.
That was history – the first time Egypt had ever allowed its people choose who leads their nation.
And yet a year on, some people are trying to bring it to an end.
This is not the birth pangs of a new democracy in Egypt, but rather an attempt by a mob to overthrow a ruler chosen by the majority of people.
As a result, those of the street will set back a process that had only just begun, a process that was taking this third world country into the modern age.
At best, Egypt will become another Tunisia or Algeria, with weak governments who answer to the military.
Perhaps, the best indicator of who is behind the scenes we are witnessing on television comes from the demeanor of the fallen dictator, Hosni Mubarak.
At his trial, he lay in bed, a man said to be dying.
At his retrial, he seemed to have miraculously recovered.
In fact, he seemed to know something that the rest of us didn’t.
Perhaps that it’s still the country’s military that rule the roost and that they were finding allies quickly.
Those who believe that the hated dictator never left may well be right.
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30 Sunday Jun 2013
TEMPLATE ANALYSIS
In 1992, the Algerian military fearing the establishment of an Islamist government canceled the country’s elections. The Military also banned the group that had won the first two rounds of the democratic process, namely the Front Islamique du Salut.
As a result, the country was plunged into civil war that resulted in the deaths of some 100, 000 people.
Already, there are echoes of that bloody conflict in the chaos that is becoming known as Egypt.
This time, the Islamist government of Mohamed Morsi was allowed to the win the country’s elections. However, a year into his Presidency and there are already crowds demanding that he leave.
If the crowds at Tahrir Square don’t get their way, there are some predicting that there will be violence.
If the government of Mohamed Morsi is not allowed to serve its full term, then that will be to the detriment of the democracy in Egypt, the laboratory from where the Arab Spring was created.
And it will also send a signal to the young in the Arab world, many of whom support Islamist movements, that democracy, the greatest political idea invented by man, is a sham.
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25 Tuesday Jun 2013
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TEMPLATE ANALYSIS
The Arab Spring began in 2011 with an attempt to topple the long-standing dictator of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak.
Eventually, it succeeded and with that came the first result of a process that continues to this day and is clearly to make an impact in Gulf states such as Bahrain, where the Emir has just handed power to his son.
It was time, said Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, to let the new generation take over.
Of course that generation, would be allowed to vote for their new leader, like they have done in Egypt and the Palestinian Territories
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27 Wednesday Jun 2012
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ANALYSIS
When Gamal Abdel-Nasser seized power of Egypt through an army coup, he immediately threw the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna into a concentration camp.
It did not matter that the Brotherhood had backed his struggle, he just did not want to see Islam playing a role in governing his people.
So, he is probably turning in his grave as crowds in Tahrer Square and elsewhere greet Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood as the country’s first ever democratically elected President.
Sunday’s momentous declaration has of course to be treated with caution.
Egypt’s army has seized on a court ruling to curtail the outcome of parliamentary elections that had given the Muslim Brotherhood the majority share of the vote.
Of course, the whole system was designed by Hosni Mubarak to ensure that the Muslim Brotherhood would never rule.
So, getting as far as they have is incredible.
Those who say that the ‘Arab’ Spring did not have this outcome in mind, may be right.
Yes, this is a vote for reactionaries, and yes it would be great to see a truly secular party born of the Islamic tradition being elected into both seats of power.
However, this result is also a consequence of the actions of Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak, all of whom were of course strong figures backed by a ruthless military. the very military that is now showing no sign of allowing the country’s first democratically elected President any room to rule.
And until that happens, the dreams and ambitions of the protesters will never be realised.
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24 Sunday Jun 2012
Sixteen months after the uprising in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that ousted Hosni Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi is elected President of Egypt. He beat his rival former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq by almost a million votes.
The Higher Presidential Election Commission said Mursi had won 51.73% of the vote, to beat Shafiq, The head of the panel of judges, Farouq Sultan, said it had upheld some of the 466 complaints by the candidates, but that the election result still stood.
Mursi, an American educated University Professor, will be President for four years in the Arab World’s most populous Muslim country. His powers as President are restricted though, after the military supended parliament where elections had awarded the Muslim Brotherhood 47 percent of votes cast.
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20 Wednesday Jun 2012
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BREAKING NEWS
Egypt’s state Television has said that there will be a delay in announcing the outcome of the country’s Presidential elections.
The results of the second stage of the elections were expected on Thursday.
However, the Supreme Elections Commission said it was still reviewing complaints from the main candidates, Ahmed Shafiq, the former PM of the last President of Egypt, and Mohamed Morsi, from the Muslim Brotherhood.
And in a separate development, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been moved from prison to an army hospital in Cairo, where he remains in a critical condition. He is said to have had a series of strokes and to be on a life support machine. Reports that he was “clinically dead” have been denied. But there has been no official statement.
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02 Saturday Jun 2012
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former President, has been sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the killing of protesters during demonstrations last year which led to his overthrow.
Judge Ahmed Refaat said the Mubarak era was “30 years of darkness”. He also praised “the sons of the nation who rose up peacefully for freedom and justice”.
However, the 84-year-old and his two sons were acquitted on separate charges of corruption, although Alaa and Gamal, will remain in detention because they are to go on trial on charges of stock market manipulation.
State television reported that the former president suffered a “health crisis”, as he was transferred from the courthouse to the hospital of Tora prison, near Cairo.
Hosni Mubarak: Guilty of conspiring in killing of protesters – life imprisonment; not guilty of corruption
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23 Wednesday May 2012
Fifteen months after ousting Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is holding its first ever free presidential election.
Some fifty million people are eligible to vote.
The military council which assumed presidential power in February 2011 has promised a fair vote and civilian rule.
The name to watch are:
As a new constitution has yet to be approved, it is unclear what powers the president will have.
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