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Protests Continue Against Mohammed Morsi in Egypt
Posted on 25 January 2013.
Protests still rage in Egypt during the second anniversary of similar actions that swept former longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power. The rallies in the famed Tahrir Square have called for President Mohammed Morsi to step down from his post, with charges that he and the Muslim Brotherhood have betrayed the revolution and [...]
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Archaeologists Have Unearthed the Tomb of an Ancient Egyptian Princess South of Cairo
Posted on 09 November 2012.
Egyptian antiquities minister Mohamed Ibrahim announced the discovery of the antechamber to Shert Nebti’s tomb. The discovery will likely lead to the uncovering of more tombs dating from the fifth pharaonic dynasty in Abu Sir and Saqqara. [Australian Broadcasting Corporation News]
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Protests Over the YouTube Film Innocence of Muslims Continues Across the World
Posted on 27 September 2012.
Angry protests over the YouTube video Innocence of Muslims continue throughout the world with a government minister in Pakistan offering a $100,000 award to anyone who kills the maker of the video.
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Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Seeks to Pass Global Blasphemy Laws
Posted on 20 September 2012.
Following the riots in Egypt and elsewhere after the publication of a YouTube video defaming Islam, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation seeks to make blasphemy or insults against religion an international criminal offense. Secretary General of the OIC Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that governments should “come out of hiding from behind the excuse of freedom of expression,” [...]
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Egypt Orders the Arrest of U.S.-Based Coptic Christians Responsible for Controversial YouTube Video
Posted on 18 September 2012.
Police in California have detained Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in connection with the controversial YouTube video “The Innocence of Muslims,” that has sparked riots and protests in Muslim countries throughout the globe. Egypt has also issued an arrest warrant for the controversial Florida preacher Terry Jones, famous for leading a ceremony to burn Qurans, who is [...]
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Elections in Egypt.
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Egyptians are casting ballots for the first post-Mubarak parliamentary contests in a long awaited moment for Egypt’s revolutionary movement. Voters turned out in large numbers to vote for their candidates and proceedings went largely without incident with women and Coptic Christians reportedly arriving at polling stations in large numbers. This is the first of two [...]
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Egypt’s Tahrir Square is a Scene of Chaos After Violent Crackdown by Egyptian Security Forces.
Posted on 21 November 2011.
Protestors in Cairo have been mercilessly beaten down by Egyptian Security Forces in an attempt to quell the protests still raging in now famous Tahrir Square, scene of the revolution against long time dictator Hosni Mubarak’s rule. In a protest raging for its second night, security forces unleashed rubber bullets and tear gas on protestors [...]
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Protests in Egypt Against Military Rule.
Posted on 19 November 2011.
Thousands upon thousands of protestors have amassed once again in Egypt’s famed Tahrir Square to protest the continued military rule of their country and to demand the process of transition to a civilian-led government. Called the “Friday of One Demand,” the protestors were called to action by a recent document released by the military discussing [...]
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The Rise of Qatar: How a Tiny Emirate in the Middle East is Turning the Arab Spring to Its Advantage.
Posted on 16 November 2011.
Qatar is probably best known in the west as the home of media outlet Al Jazeera and perhaps secondly as a less grand, Dubai-esque sheikdom in the Middle East. Recent events in the Middle East such as the uprising against Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the fall of Qaddafi in Libya and the toppling of Mubarak [...]
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