When the crowds swelled in the Square of Liberation in January 2011, the chant of al-sha’ab yurid isqat al-nidham (‘the people demand the fall of the regime’) was a pithy slogan. By the time Hosni Mubarak was pushed out of power eighteen days later, Tahrir Square had become much more than simply a place where …
Heated debates are triggered over the Constituent Assembly, it dwindling membership and the delay in finalising the country’s most important document, the constitution. In almost all Egyptian newspapers columnists have analysed the factors affecting the Constituent Assembly in its process of drafting a constitution. On another note, some writers continued with their weekly dose of …
A critical court case that threatens to dissolve the Constituent Assembly for a second time looms over the body tasked with drafting the nation’s constitution
Jordanian King specifically mentioned the Brotherhood and its political wing to “participate in the legislative elections to reach parliamentary governments.”
By Reuters CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood group expelled five of its members for setting up a political party in defiance of the group’s own Freedom and Justice party, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Brotherhood’s Guidance Council decided to bar the five members of the movement’s youth wing after they established the Egyptian Current party, …
