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Live Updates on Egypt's Presidential Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by melhoshy on 11 May 12 - No Cached

  • The moderator pressed the candidates on the subject of the seemingly perpetual protests roiling the Egyptian streets, and their responses again painted a sharp contrast. Mr. Moussa stressed firm competence to resolve them: “transparency, determination and good management of the state.”

    Mr. Aboul Fotouh talked of empathy for the people in the streets. When the people feel their president “aches in pain like they do,” they would come together behind him, he said. And he called their demands legitimate, asserting that they would not protest if they had what they needed: housing, food, employment.

    • melhoshy
      melhoshy on 11 May 12
       
      Why can't it be both?
  • He then fired that at Mr. Aboul Fotouh over his own past affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. While Mr. Moussa was defending the interests of “the homeland,” he said, Mr. Aboul Fotouh fought for the positions of a single group. “You defended the positions of Muslim Brotherhood, not the Egyptian positions,” he said, while Mr. Moussa’s own goal was “to defend Egypt rather than a group or a party.”
    • melhoshy
      melhoshy on 11 May 12
       
      From the humanitarian perspective, MB did support Egyptian people (food, education, healthcare)... However, question is whether AboulFotouh was more focused on political staturing vs grassroots action.
  • melhoshy on 11 May 12
     
    The moderator pressed the candidates on the subject of the seemingly perpetual protests roiling the Egyptian streets, and their responses again painted a sharp contrast. Mr. Moussa stressed firm competence to resolve them: "transparency, determination and good management of the state."

    Mr. Aboul Fotouh talked of empathy for the people in the streets. When the people feel their president "aches in pain like they do," they would come together behind him, he said. And he called their demands legitimate, asserting that they would not protest if they had what they needed: housing, food, employment.
melhoshy

Egypt One Year After: The Regime that Fell - inFocus Quarterly Journal - 2 views

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shared by melhoshy on 10 May 12 - No Cached
  • Ironically, it was opposition to the Iraq war that sparked the first protest movement in the Egyptian street. Soon after, pressured by the U.S., the regime started opening up and reforming politically.
    • melhoshy
      melhoshy on 10 May 12
       
      and this was in a large part becuase of the military, no? As a president, popular support could be shored up by not being with the Iraq war (i.e. Turkey)
  • Two issues stand out in this regard: police brutality and election forgery.
  • It is for this reason that Khaled Said—the 28-year-old Egyptian brutally murdered by police in June 2010—mattered. His tortured picture thrown in people's faces, they could ignore it no longer. One could certainly choose the side of the regime, and some did, but doing so required a moral choice. It weighed heavily on one's conscience.
    • melhoshy
      melhoshy on 10 May 12
       
      Adding to this lack of justice - the ferry incident masalan! As far as I remember the owner was former military or something along those lines and he didn't face any repercussions for the death of the 1,000+ people despite it being overcapacity, etc... 
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  • While the 2010 parliamentary elections were certainly one of the worst in recent history, what mattered was the fact that everyone had a mobile phone with a camera.
  • What is shocking, what should give analysts pose, is how little resistance the regime offered.
  • Mubarak had presided over a declining state, but what escaped many is the fact that the regime itself was not untouched by such decline. The state bureaucracy had stopped functioning years before February 2011, as the state was stretched beyond its limits and tasked with duties beyond its ability to deliver.
  • Having become nothing more than a bureaucracy tasked with the management of the defense sector,
    • melhoshy
      melhoshy on 10 May 12
       
      I see them as having far more than that! Control of foreign policy, interests, control of economy across multiple sectors?
  • What will remain is the reality of a country that is still grappling with the idea of modernity.
  • the officers no longer saw themselves as the backbone of the regime.
    • melhoshy
      melhoshy on 10 May 12
       
      I read it more as they could no longer sustain their appeal and benefits if they backed the regime! Also, it was the dissonance between Jimmy and them that caused tension.
  • As shocking as it may seem today, Gamal's entry into Egyptian politics ignited a brief moment of enthusiasm.
  • True, the country achieved remarkable growth rates, but as with every economic transformation, the pains were huge. The technocrats followed the World Bank/International Monetary Fund handbook, but Egyptians, long accustomed to the nanny state, never understood why this road was taken.
    • melhoshy
      melhoshy on 10 May 12
       
      That is unfair saying that the people didn't understand it! I think if they saw benefits or even if the regime just wasn't so corrupt in apportioning huge pieces of valuable land to private interests (and this includes the military)!
  • The hopes and dreams that the revolution has aroused are sky high, but soon they will be crushed by the reality of Egypt. For in truth, "the sorrows of Egypt" were not of Mubarak's making.
    • melhoshy
      melhoshy on 10 May 12
       
      The country has potential - I am sure the same was said about Germany and Japan post-WW2 and the same was said about South Korea after their war... We have the resources available to achieve much more than we do now.
Hossam el-Hamalawy

تأجيل محاكمة ضباط «أمن الدولة» في قضية «سيد بلال» إلى 19 مايو المقبل | المصري... - 0 views

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Egypt Alexandria Police Torture pigs HumanRights Salafis State Security Terrorism

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  • وتعود وقائع القضية إلى بداية العام الماضي، حينما أسفرت التحقيقات في جهاز أمن الدولة المنحل في قضية تفجيرات كنيسة القديسين عن وفاة الشاب السيد بلال، والمتهم فيها 5 من ضباط جهاز مباحث أمن الدولة، منهم المتهم الأول محمد عبد الرحمن الشيمى، بالإضافة إلى 4 ضباط هاربين هم حسام إبراهيم الشناوي، أسامة عبد المنعم الكنيسي، أحمد مصطفى كامل، محمود عبد العليم.
Hossam el-Hamalawy

اليوم.. استئناف محاكمة المتهمين في مقتل «سيد بلال» - التحرير - 0 views

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Egypt Police Torture Pigs Alexandria State Security

shared by Hossam el-Hamalawy on 19 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • جدير بالذكر، أن نيابة غرب الإسكندرية برئاسة المستشار عبد الجليل حماد وجهت الاتهام في القضية إلى 5 من ضباط جهاز أمن الدولة بقتل السيد بلال بعد تعذيبه والقبض عليه بدون وجه حق هو وباقى زملائه، وهتك عرضهم؛ لحملهم على الاعتراف بتفجير كنيسة القديسين في الإسكندرية، وهم محمد عبد الرحمن الشيمى سليمان وشهرته علاء زيدان «محبوس»، وحسام إبراهيم محمد رضا الشناوى، وأسامة محمود عبد المنعم الكنيسى، وأحمد مصطفى كامل وشهرته «أدهم البدري»، ومحمود عبد العليم محمود على «هاربون» جميعهم ضباط بجهاز أمن الدولة المنحل فرع الإسكندرية ومدينة نصر
melhoshy

Wanted - put a name to these faces - Blog - The Arabist - 0 views

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shared by melhoshy on 06 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • melhoshy on 06 Jan 12
     
    New on Arabist: Wanted - put a name to these faces http://t.co/bCL6EZ4Q
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