Peace with Israel is now stable: Al-Sisi
Presidential candidate vows Egyptian intervention if any Arab country is “threatened”
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Latest in Tag: military rule
The armed forces is not above parliamentary monitoring: Sabahy
“My project seeks a successful state with all its sectors, instead of only depending on the military institution,” says the presidential candidate
Anti-Coup Alliance cites reasons for boycotting referendum
The statement criticised the media campaign that is manipulating the masses to vote Yes, as well as the unknown consequences of voting No, and the possible fraud during the referendum because “the military and police forces are not objective as they are part of the coup.”
Dozens call for military rule in Cairo and Alexandria
Protesters are demanding defence minister Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi assume power and oust Morsi
Political activist and paramedic tied to ‘No Military Trials’ kidnapped from home
The kidnapping of two activists against the military signals the treacherous road facing the No Military Trial campaign
Hardly an end to military rule
As Egypt reckons with the 60th anniversary of the 23 July 1952 revolution, it is important to revisit the historical context which led to the officer’s coup as well as the figures within it that are perhaps not quite as remembered as well as they should.
The past is only one of the three important aspects for July 23 which still affects Egypt strongly to this very day.
Every single president up until before the current one has been a military man.
But that is just the direct interpretation of the concept of military rule with former officers holding hundreds of key positions within the state and the public sector, controlling the lives of citizens all the way to minutia of sanitation and water plants.
Finally, it is worth exploring the relationship between the two revolutions of 23 July 1952 and 25 January 2011, with many activists claiming the latter came to end the regime born out of the former while others, Nasserists and Arab Nationalists like former presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabahi, claim they are two halves of the same whole.
Egypt has elected its first civilian president in Mohamed Morsy, but with the constitutional decree in effect, this hardly means the end of military rule.
Egypt demonstrators block main Cairo bridge
Traffic on 6th of October Bridge halted for more than an hour because of a protest.
Egyptian protesters take long walk to Tahrir
By Tamim Elyan / Reuters CAIRO: A group of Egyptians are marching 125 km (77 miles) along a major highway to Cairo to take part in a demonstration in Tahrir Square, stretching the boundaries of the country’s flourishing culture of political activism. Fifteen activists decided to walk from their hometown of Suez across the desert …
Ending military rule through democracy, ‘not chaos,’ says El-Awa
By Abdel Rahman Youssef ALEXANDRIA: Bringing an end to military rule will not be achieved merely by chanting against it, presidential hopeful Mohamed Selim El-Awa said Monday at a conference. His statement was in response to youth who chanted against military rule during the conference in Alexandria on Monday night. “Whoever wants to confront the military …