MARCH 5, 2011 Over the past six decades, Egypt’s second city has morphed from cosmopolitan oasis into Islamist stronghold By MARC CHAMPION And LUCETTE LAGNADO Odette and Elie MorenoFifty years ago, women in Alexandria strolled to the beach in their bikinis (above, sunbathers at Sidi Bishr beach in 1959) Colette Frege Haggar remembers how, in […]
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FEBRUARY 26, 2011 A Democrat’s Triumphal Return to Cairo Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the former prisoner of the Mubarak regime, on the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s political future. By BARI WEISS For 18 days, the people of Cairo massed in Tahrir Square to bring down their pharaoh. Many carried signs: “Mubarak: shift + delete,” “Forgive me
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Professional Islamists The Muslim Brotherhood’s long march through the institutions. Stephen Schwartz February 21, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 22 The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, or al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, is more than a radical network, comparable to al Qaeda; more than an ideological phenomenon, like the followers of Khomeini in the 1979
FEBRUARY 23, 2011 Few protesters in the Middle East connect rising food prices to U.S. monetary policy. But central bankers do. By GEORGE MELLOAN In accounts of the political unrest sweeping through the Middle East, one factor, inflation, deserves more attention. Nothing can be more demoralizing to people at the low end of the income
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FEBRUARY 22, 2011, 11:56 P.M. ET Arab Unrest Stuns Markets Oil Soars, Stocks Fall as Libyan Rebels Take Energy Zone; Shipments Are Halted By LIAM PLEVEN, JONATHAN CHENG And GUY CHAZAN Libya’s descent into violence rattled global financial markets Tuesday, sending oil prices surging to their biggest gain in more than two years and driving
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FEBRUARY 22, 2011 The U.S. Can Help Libyans Defeat Gadhafi If mercenaries are arriving to save the dictator, the U.S. and U.N. need to mobilize to stop the slaughter. By PAUL WOLFOWITZ EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Later on Sunday the State Department started to play catch-up, issuing a statement that called upon Libyan officials to
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February 16, 2011 Ann Coulter The Middle East is on fire again, and crazy Muslims with funny names aren’t helping things — Mahmoud, ElBaradei, al-Banna, Barack … The major new development is that NOW liberals want to get rid of a dictator in the Middle East! Where were they when we were taking out the
FEBRUARY 19, 2011 By AMIR TAHERI ‘Hang them! Hang them!” the mob shouted while goose-stepping towards the podium. Some beat their chests and others raised clenched fists. “Allah is the greatest!” chanted the turbaned clerics. This was the scene Tuesday in the Islamic Majlis, Iran’s ersatz parliament. Members raged against the “heads of sedition,” calling
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Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By Lawrence Kudlow Feb 2 2011 Did Bernanke and ethanol sink Egypt? Decades of autocratic government and a lack of free elections are, of course, the main drivers of the political upheaval in Egypt. But did the sinking dollar and skyrocketing food prices trigger the massive unrest now occurring in
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