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Egypt's Challenge - Two Years After the Revolution

Shaimaa Khalil | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Islam, Bbc, Port Said, Alexandria, Egyptian Police, American University in Cairo, Diesel, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), BBC World Service, Freedom and Justice Party, Unemployment, Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, Cairo, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Middle East, Revolution, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt President Mohammed Morsi, Islamists, Mohammed Morsi, UK Entertainment News
Shaimaa Khalil

I'm an Egyptian journalist working for the BBC in London and I've been reporting on the tumultuous events in my country for the last two years. In my new six-part BBC World Service series, Egypt's Challenge, I want to find out what post-revolutionary Egypt looks like. As it struggles to understand its new democracy I want to know what the main challenges facing my country are.

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Egypt's Challenge - Two Years After the Revolution

Shaimaa Kahlil | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Egypt, Islam, Bbc, Port Said, Alexandria, Egyptian Police, American University in Cairo, Diesel, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), BBC World Service, Freedom and Justice Party, Unemployment, Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt Revolution, Cairo, Middle East, Revolution, Hosni Mubarak, Islamists, Egypt President Mohammed Morsi, Mohammed Morsi, UK Entertainment News
Shaimaa Kahlil

I'm an Egyptian journalist working for the BBC in London and I've been reporting on the tumultuous events in my country for the last two years. In my new six-part BBC World Service series, Egypt's Challenge, I want to find out what post-revolutionary Egypt looks like. As it struggles to understand its new democracy I want to know what the main challenges facing my country are.

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PHOTOS: Egypt's Arab Spring Two Years On

The Huffington Post UK | Christopher York | Posted 28.01.2013 | UK
Read More: Egypt Arab Spring, Egypt Demonstrations, Egypt Protests, Egypt Revolution, Egypt Clashes, Egypt Spring, Egypt News, Egypt Riots, UK News

Two years ago, millions of protesters took to Egypt's Tahrir Square demanding and achieving the removal of dictatorial president, Hosni Mubarak. O...

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Review of Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment? By Fawaz Gerges

Benjamin Lazarus | Posted 24.11.2012 | Home
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Iraq War, Dennis Ross, Fawaz Gerges, Turkey, Egypt Revolution, West Bank, East Jerusalem Expansion, Middle East, George W. Bush, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Home News
Benjamin Lazarus

Barack Obama came into office having promised to distance America from the neoconservative philosophy that dominated George W. Bush's presidency. As a...

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Man Who Annouced Mubarak's Resignation Dies In US

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 18.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Egypt Protests, Omar Suleiman, UK News, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Egypt News, Omar Suleiman Dead, Egypt Riots, Egypt Elections, Omar Suleiman Death, Omar Suleiman Dies, UK News

Omar Suleiman, Egypt's former intelligence boss has died, according to the country's state-run news agency. The 76-year-old, who served briefly as...

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Arab Spring - Revolution & Counter-Revolution

James Denselow | Posted 14.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Middle East Protests, Tunisia Protests, Arab Spring, Bahrain Protests, Egypt Revolution, Arab Spring Protests, Syria Protests, Libya Protests, UK, World, Home News
James Denselow

Reuters correspondent Lin Noueihed and Middle East analyst Alex Warren have written an comprehensive account of the revolution and counter-revolution underpinning the Arab Spring over a year after its inception.

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Mubarak Critical After Suffering Stroke

The Huffington Post | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK
Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt Protests, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, President Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt Elections, Hosni Mubarak Trial, UK News

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak has suffered a stroke, and prison officials said he is likely to be moved out of his prison hospital to a milit...

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Why I'd Be Voting Islamist

The Cambridge Union Society | Posted 04.08.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Ahmed Shafiq, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Egypt Military Civilian Government, Egypt Military Council, Egypt Elections, Ahmed-Shafiq-Egypt-President-Elections, Mohammed Morsi, World, UK Universities & Education News
The Cambridge Union Society

The results of the first round of voting in the Egyptian presidential election were not good. To be more specific, they were very bad. The runoff will pit Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group already dominant in parliament, against Ahmed Shafik, a former commander of the air force and Mubarak's last prime minister.

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The First Arab Spring

Dylan Evans | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Beirut, Lebanon, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, Hezbollah, Cedar Revolution, Rafik Hariri, Syria, UK News
Dylan Evans

While their brothers and sisters in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere mark the first anniversary of the Arab Spring, the people of Lebanon are commemorating the progenitor of these momentous events.

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Imprisoned for Love: Human Rights in Egypt

Rachel Preece | Posted 22.04.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Egypt Protests, Equality, Marriage, Military, Human Rights, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Freedom, Arab Spring, World, UK Politics News
Rachel Preece

On 16 October 2011, American Jessica Albrent married Ahmed Azzam, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot in the Egyptian military. The marriage was legal and binding under Egyptian law. Jessica and Ahmed's families and friends joined them to celebrate their union. The couple were married for less than two months, when Ahmed was arrested.

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The Arab Spring in History: Taking the Long View

Fritz Lodge | Posted 19.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Egypt Arab Spring, Cairo Egypt, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, Middle East, Egypt, Middle East History, Syria, Home News
Fritz Lodge

This unique dualism of a Middle Eastern childhood, and an American identity, is something Dr Rogan strives to incorporate in his writing. Yet it is his perspective on Arab history that serves most to surprise.

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This House Believes the Arab Spring is a Threat to Global Stability

The Cambridge Union Society | Posted 08.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Libyan Revolution, Islam, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, Arab Spring Protests, Middle East, Revolution, Libyan Rebels, Democracy, Dictatorship, Cambridge University, Dictators, UK Universities, Syria, UK Universities & Education News
The Cambridge Union Society

Abdullah Chaudhry and Ed Winfield debate the consequences of the Arab Spring ahead of Thursday's debate at the Cambridge Union. Abdullah contends in...

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Online Activism & Revolution in Egypt

James Denselow | Posted 26.03.2012 | UK
Read More: Egypt Protests, Hosni Mubarak, Arab Spring, Twitter, Facebook, Egypt Revolution, Tahrir Square, Social Media, Egypt Anniversary, UK News
James Denselow

It was not Facebook, Twitter or YouTube that brought down Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian people did that. But this does not mean that social media and Internet‐based technologies played no role, or that their role was insignificant, as some have alleged.

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2011: A Year to Remember or to Forget?

Amarjot Sidhu | Posted 01.03.2012 | UK
Read More: Debt, Politics, Egypt Revolution, Japan Tsunami, Olympics, Economy, Occupy Wall Street, 2011, London Riots, Occupy Movement, Eu, 2012, UK, Happy New Year, UK News
Amarjot Sidhu

No foresight could have predicted such a consequential and momentous year. At the time of writing this, it is review galore for journalists and the public alike with a myriad of comparisons being made between 2011 and other significant years in history.

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Egypt Poll: Voters See Both Ballots and Protests as Key to Change

YouGov-Cambridge | Posted 11.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Egypt Protests, Arab Spring, Polling, Egypt Revolution, Eg, Home News
YouGov-Cambridge

An online poll conducted by YouGov for YouGov-Cambridge (its new academic arm) days before the first round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections on 28/29 November provides a fascinating snapshot of voters pulled between the ballot box and the mass street protests which erupted in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in the country during the same period.

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Egypt At The Crossroads

John Wight | Posted 23.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Arab Spring, David Cameron, UK Politics News
John Wight

Current events in Egypt speak for themselves. The conscious will of the Egyptian masses refuses to be broken. In their hundreds of thousands the people are asserting their determination to break the power of a military caste which has grievously miscalculated the temper of a revolutionary movement that will not be denied.

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PICTURES: UN Chief Calls For Investigation Into Egypt's 'Excessive Use Of Force'

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 23.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Egypt Protests, UK News, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, Hussein Tantawi, Cairo, Egypt, Tahrir Square, Navi Pillay, United Nations, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Scaf, UK News

The United Nations has called for an independent investigation into the killing of protesters in Egypt as violence in the capital continues to rage. ...

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Is the 'Arab Spring' Making way for an 'Islamic Winter'?

Imad Mesdoua | Posted 27.12.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Libyan Revolution, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, Islamism, Tunisia Revolution, Tunisia Elections, UK Politics News
Imad Mesdoua

It's the question on everyone's lips these days. The trending topic, the pressing issue, the 'primary concern' in the press and in political backrooms everywhere: Is the Arab Spring making way for an Islamic Winter?

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Cairo Clashes Leave 24 Dead

The Huffington Post UK | Olivia Williams | Posted 10.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Egypt Protests, Egypt Revolution, Cairo, Tahrir Square, Coptic Christians, Hosni Mubarak, UK News

At least 24 Egyptians have died in Cairo after violent clashes erupted between protesting Christians and the army on Sunday. A further 200 were wounde...

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Chaotic Scenes As Egypt's Hosni Mubarak Returns To Court

Al Jazeera English | Posted 15.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Egypt Revolution, Military Council, Cairo, Egypt, Tahrir Square, Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak, Arab Spring, Arab Uprisings, UK News

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's former president, is back in court to face charges of killing protesters, in a hearing that could decide if the head of the rul...

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Egypt's Mubarak Due To Go On Trial Over Protester Deaths

Al Jazeera | Posted 02.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Court, Arab Spring, Cairo, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Tahrir Square, Death Penalty, Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak, January 25, UK News

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's former president, is set to go on trial for corruption and unlawful killing before and during the revolution that ultimately le...

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Doctors Deny Hosni Mubarak Coma Claims

The Guardian | Posted 16.09.2011 | UK
Read More: Arab Uprising, Egypt, Hosnia Mubarak, Egypt Revolution, Arab Spring, Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak Coma, Cairo, Tahrir Square, UK News

Hosni Mubarak is believed to be in a stable medical condition, following earlier reports suggesting the former Egyptian president had slipped into a c...

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