U.S. Elections 2012 Egypt’s Mursi hopes Obama win boosts ‘friendship’ Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday hailed his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama re-election and said he hoped it would strengthen the “friendship” between their two countries. Mursi hoped for a “streng[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
September 27th, 2012 - 3:31 am § in America
COMMENTARY by SMS: Are we witnessing the rise of Islamic Demcracy?
The AP reported yesterday that Egypt’s new president Mohammed Morsi gave a very strong speech at the UN dedicating himself and his country to the end of the Syrian dictatorship. The first leader elected by the Muslim Brotherhood in an open election called on all nations to join an effort to st[...]
September 9th, 2012 - 12:10 pm § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Egypt and Israel in Joint Military Actions in Sinai
Cairo – Egypt Says Sinai Campaign Coordinated With Israel Cairo – Egypt said Saturday that it has coordinated an ongoing anti-terrorism offensive in the Sinai Peninsula with Israel, and that the campaign… Read More » READMORE: About another Egyptian effort to civilize the Sinai.[...]
August 21st, 2012 - 12:35 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Can Egypt Make an Arab Spring in the Sinai?
Egypt’s Agriculture minister Salah Abdul Momen told the Al-Ahram that his ministry has developed a detailed five-year plan to turn 1 million acres of arid desert in central Sinai into farmland, at a rate of 200,000 acres per year. Another Egyptian official, irrigation minister Muhammad Bahaa A[...]
February 14th, 2012 - 11:57 pm § in Politics
Economics From Kenya
Inflation dropped to 18.31 per cent from 18.93 per cent recorded in December after hitting a high of 19.72 per cent in November, a drop mainly attributed to transport and communication sectors, with food yet to make any significant dent on the key economic indicator.”Our forecasts indicate tha[...]
BREAKING NEWS: The other Palestinian Conflict … Mafia vs. The Party Machine
While the intransigence of the Israelis and the PLO seems to be endless, perhaps there is a god waiting in the sidelines? Hamas and Fatah, at least seem to be talking. “We’ve turned a new page. There was a great deal of understanding and enthusiasm for working together and we were serious ab[...]
Palestinians Outraged Because Gingrich Tells Truth?
JERUSALEM, Huff Post — A slew of Palestinian officials reacted with dismay Saturday to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s statement that the Palestinians are an “invented” people. The Jewish Channel, a U.S. cable TV network, released excerpts of the interview on Fr[...]
November 30th, 2011 - 12:34 pm § in Misc.
Breaking News: Most Purple Thumbs in Egypt Will Come From The Muslim Brotherhood
Joshua Hirsch of the Huffington Post Reports (excerpted): ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — …. as preliminary results and rough polling data emerged Wednesday, it became increasingly clear that the country’s conservative Islamist parties are likely to fare even better than anticipated — [...]
November 4th, 2011 - 8:57 am § in Politics, Saudi Arabia
BREAKING NEWS: Who is Ataturk in Egypt?
Why aren’t the media reporting on this in the USA? Ataturk, the founder of Turkish democracy, used the Turkish Army to enforce a secular democracy on an Islamic polity. Egypt, so far, does not have an Ataturk. The revolution was not led by the army, but by democratic actgivists &#[...]
PRESIDENT ROMNEY: “We do not support UN intervention in Gaza”
In the third presidential debate on October 22, Romney again criticized the UN and former envoy Kofi Annan for their failure to bring about a ceasefire in Syria. That policy is now the basis for America’s new foreign policy towards Gaza. At his weekly press conference, President Romney has [...]