Latest in Tag: Amr Hamzawy Highlight
Latest in Tag: Amr Hamzawy

Solidarity, condemnations follow researcher’s arrest
There is a major defect when it comes to security investigation apparatuses and agencies entrusted with levelling charges, says El-Balshy

3 policemen referred to trial over torture accusations
Detained man was allegedly beaten to death in police station

Egypt’s judiciary unites opposing political currents in one trial
Mohamed Morsi, Alaa Abdel Fattah, Amr Hamzawy among 25 accused of ‘insulting judiciary’

Young politicians demand resignation of interior minister over repeated violence
Why does the state keep fighting the young? they ask

Hamdeen Sabahy officially challenges preliminary results
Al-Sisi praises the role of the judiciary, security forces and the media in the electoral process

Boycotting the presidential elections, from Brotherhood to revolutionaries
The Daily News Egypt investigates the motives of different political factions and independent voters who are boycotting the presidential elections

Sabahy, Al-Sisi exert final campaign efforts before pre-elections silence
Presidential candidates officially halted their campaigns on Friday to enter period of pre-elections silence
In Pictures: Sabahy, Al-Sisi exert final campaign efforts before pre-elections silence
Presidential candidates Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Hamdeen Sabahy officially terminated their campaigns on Friday, the last day before the two days pre-elections silence, stipulated by Article 18 of the Elections Law. Sabahy’s campaign organised a rally in Abdeen Square in Downtown Cairo on Friday. The rally was attended by public figures endorsing his campaign and …

I will not accept American economic assistance: Hamdeen Sabahy
Sabahy stresses that legislative reform to fight corruption is one of his priorities
Morsi’s speech lightning rod for opposition
Most reactions critical to presidential address critical

Morsi’s Syria speech angers opposition
Amr Hamzawy: Speech calculated to win Salafi support on 30 June

Politicians call for securing and developing Sinai
Brotherhood Supreme Guide calls on government to bring kidnappers to justice as groups stress importance of Sinai development

The Revolutionary Connection
Unfortunately, revolutions come at a price. The whole idea of revolting is to destroy the connection with the status quo, and this connection can be broken in two main ways. You either break the connection, celebrate its destruction, propose a different status quo, implement it and build a new connection; or simply break the connection, …

IMF delegation meets with Al-Wafd Party
Party suggests delaying economic reform programme for one year, tells IMF they ‘do not trust government’

Al-Tayar Al-Shaaby calls for Morsi investigation
Political group holds Morsi responsible for the violence taking over the country

Prepping for round two
Major political parties tour Egypt’s governorates in an effort to sway Saturday’s referendum vote
Review: Learning politics and dreading the future
Columnists tackled various issues indicative of the nascent and provisional state of Egyptian democracy, as well as the tentative and at times apprehensive attitude the country holds towards the future. They relay fears of both internal and external transformations, and discuss the Egyptian political arena and its struggles to learn the rights and wrongs of …

Hamzawy dismisses 100 day plan
Former MP discusses Egypt’s political future at Cairo University

Calls for boycott of Constituent Assembly
El-Baradie and Sabahi calls for boycotting the constituent assembly

Hamzawi: “Morsy’s talk about being a president for all Egyptians is politically romantic”
Hamzawi asserts the importance of “unifying” liberal powers in the upcoming elections, discusses the mistakes of the past

All broken up: new coalitions form as old electoral alliances die out
The race for parliamentary seats has started early
Amr Hamzawy denies court ruling stripping him of PA membership
CAIRO: Liberal Cairo MP Amr Hamzawy denied Sunday reports that the Supreme Administrative Court had stripped him of his membership in parliament citing dual citizenship. Hamzawy, who won a single-winner seat in the first phase of the elections in Cairo’s fourth constituency, said he had relinquished his German citizenship before submitting his candidature application papers …