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  1. Pro-Israel Congressional Spokesmen Rethinking Democratization

    scheduled a hearing today to discuss the annual request for military and economic aid to Egypt, and those ... supported aid to Egypt as a way to promote democratization of its civil institutions. It has recently ... US aid has resulted in 99% of Egypt’s villages receiving electricity. Mortality rates have ...

    charlotte - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  2. Gaza celebrates fall of Mubarak

    Mubarak (Rami Almeghari) “Masr, Masr, Masr, Masr” — the Arabic word for Egypt was the call from huge crowds on the streets ... eighteen days of protests all over Egypt. The length of Umar al-Mukhtar street, a main thoroughfare in Gaza ... Mustafa as young people chanted loudly. I am very happy, very happy for the youth of Egypt, who succeeded ...

    Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  3. Egyptian opposition branded "terrorist"

    assault on the Gaza Strip to organize anti-government street demonstrations in Egypt and throughout the ... represents Egypt’s largest opposition movement, with roughly one-fifth of seats in parliament. The rest of ... says that linking Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to Palestinian groups Hamas and Hizballah accomplishes two ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  4. Egypt's "state security" still blocks Rafah exit from Gaza

    attempt to enter Egypt. Zorob, 70, was denied access on Sunday. Zorob has been based in Gaza for the past ... 16 years and since then has had difficulty staying in touch with his family in nearby Egypt. During ... each of his attempts to enter Egypt in recent months, he was turned away by Egyptian officials, but, ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  5. Egypt cinema syndicate calls for release of Canadian filmmaker John Greyson

    filmmaker John Greyson and an emergency room doctor Tarek Loubani – two Canadians arrested in Egypt on ... Friday. The pair were in Egypt with the intention of traveling to Gaza on a long-planned visit, but as the ... Toronto pharmacist Amr Kassem, who was vacationing in Egypt with his wife and young daughter, was shot ...

    Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 1 comment

  6. Egypt loses diplomatic ground with Hamas

    an Egypt summit planned with Israeli and Arab leaders, saying only “resistance” would produce results ... commentators question the ability of Egypt — a longtime supporter of Hamas rival Fatah — to mediate ... impartially. “Egypt’s open support of Fatah has cost it all credibility as an arbitrator,” Gamal Zahran, ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  7. Tunnel vision

    Kathy Kelly al-Arish, Egypt 10 January 2009 Goats are smuggled through a tunnel between Egypt and ... of the small Gaza Strip continues into a third week. I heard some people here in Egypt wonder if the ... wounded people to the Rafah border crossing, where patients might be allowed to enter Egypt for critically ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  8. Egypt braces for new Gaza influx

    Peninsula. In recent weeks, the security presence along Egypt’s 14-kilometer border with the hapless ... entirely run out of fuel and most basic food commodities.” Egypt’s border build-up follows recent ... group had no intention of breaching the border with Egypt. “Hamas has no plan to knock down the border ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  9. Egypt bent at the border

    Israel’s recently concluded military campaign. Areas along Egypt’s border with the hapless enclave, ... January, the 14-kilometer border area between Egypt and the Gaza Strip was hit by hundreds of Israeli air ... from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. For the last two weeks, the authorities have banned journalists from ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  10. Frustration simmers over Egypt-Gaza border closure

    between Gaza and Egypt despite the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. Hatem Omar MaanImages In late April, ... Egypt’s acting foreign minister Nabil el-Arabi promised to ease the closure of his country’s sole border ... announcement was inescapable. Egypt’s collusion with Israel in the isolation of Gaza contributed to the misery ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  11. Another world is necessary

    from Rafah, Gaza enjoys a cup of tea in front of the fallen wall at the border with Egypt. (Matthew ... Humanitarian Affairs. Egypt was not a signatory to the agreement governing the Rafah border terminal. Instead it was ... the agreement concerned an Egyptian border. According to security sources, Egypt had expressed some ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  12. Arab pride reborn through revolution

    Yasmeen El Khoudary The Electronic Intifada 28 February 2011 The revolution in Egypt has inspired ... reason to believe otherwise. My good memories in Egypt were limited to the four years I had spent at the ... American University in Cairo. I felt bitter towards Egypt as a country because the now ousted dictator ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  13. When will the train return to Gaza?

    a country like Egypt. In the current climate, such breakthroughs appear to be a long way off. Nevertheless, ... entered Egypt, we would have our papers checked, but the procedures were simple. Egypt used to welcome us ... into Egypt. It is not hard to see why those who remember it, remember the railroad as a golden time in ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  14. Video report: Gaza is being strangled and its people are suffocating

    is one of thousands of Palestinians trapped in Gaza, unable to travel due to Egypt’s closure of the ... scholarships abroad, as well as many medical patients. Egypt has closed the border completely for the past ... Muhammad Morsi, Egypt has severely restricted the crossing and on average the number of people passing ...

    Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  15. Hajj pilgrims stranded in Egypt

    a rally organized by Hamas urging Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing and allow around 2,000 ... pilgrims refused Egypt’s demands that they return to Gaza through an Israeli-controlled border crossing, ... fearing that they would be vulnerable to arrest and interrogation. Israel and Egypt claim that ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  16. Why is Gaza always Egypt's scapegoat?

    Egypt has been closed more often than open in recent months. Ashraf Amra APA images In early November, ... Egypt was closed, my chances of being able to travel to Qatar appeared slim. Rafah is the only exit ... Egypt’s president in early July. Whenever the crossing has opened over the past few months, it has been ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  17. A million Egyptians united against Mubarak

    31 January 2011. (Matthew Cassel) CAIRO (IPS)- Organizers called it Egypt’s “million man march.” ... down. Earlier this week the 83-year-old dictator, who has ruled Egypt for thirty years, appointed a vice ... wealth at the expense of the Egyptian people. “When Mubarak’s gone, Egypt will regain her pride,” ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  18. Why are we in Gaza being punished for Egypt border guard killings?

    being punished for events beyond their control. Abed Rahim Khatib APA images Egypt is the country that ... legislative elections were held, Egypt remained at the heart of our summer plans. To many of us, Egypt is ... loved the people of Egypt and identified with them in so many different ways. Then the siege on Gaza was ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 11 comments

  19. Pew poll: Majority of Egyptians want peace treaty with Israel canceled

    that have occurred in Egypt. Favorable ratings of the U.S. remain as low as they have been in recent ... the United States and Israel, and which made Egypt – once the leader of the Arab world – a mere vassal ... to these countries. This poll would seem to support the view that a democratic Egypt would not ...

    Ali Abunimah - 07/28/2015 - 12:34

  20. Hope and anxiety at Rafah crossing

    that she will be reunited with her family in Cairo, Egypt. Because of closure and travel restrictions, ... side of the Rafah terminal crossing with Egypt, where Palestinians in Gaza have queued up after ... Egyptian authorities reopened the crossing “indefinitely.” Egypt’s move follows Israel’s deadly raid on the ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

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