http://www.atimes.com ASIA TIMES SPENGLER Failed treasury auction portends Egyptian disaster By Spengler Investors bought less an a third of the 3.5 billion Egyptian pounds (US$580 million) worth of Treasury bills offered to the market on January 22, a red flag warning that Egypt’s foreign exchange position is close to the brink. Yields on Egyptian government […]
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NOVEMBER 29, 2011 What we are witnessing is not the consequence of democracy but rather a half-century of authoritarianism. By FOUAD AJAMI Egyptian history plays tricks with its interpreters. This ancient society is known for the stability given it by the Nile, a well-mannered and orderly river, and by a pharaonic culture where the rulers
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Newsmax Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:04 PM By: Margaret Menge and Ashley Martella The Arab Spring has failed in Egypt, and the Muslim Brotherhood may turn the most populous nation in the Middle East into an Islamist state within months, says Walid Phares, a Mideast expert and adviser to Congress. And if the Obama administration
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NOVEMBER 25, 2011 By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY And CHARLES LEVINSON CAIRO—Egypt’s military leaders said they would push ahead with parliamentary elections beginning Monday, while refusing to give in to swelling protests calling for a quicker transition to civilian rule. The elections—the country’s first parliamentary vote since former President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in February—could stand as a
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NOVEMBER 22, 2011 Civilian Cabinet Tenders Resignations As Frustration Mounts Against Generals By CHARLES LEVINSON And MATT BRADLEY CAIRO—Thousands of protesters clashed with Egyptian security forces for a third straight day Monday in an increasingly violent showdown with the country’s ruling generals, who face unprecedented and rapidly escalating discontent less than a week before scheduled
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By Walid Phares The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (Google eBook) Walid Phares Simon and Schuster, Dec 7, 2010 – Political Science – 400 pages After the 9/11 Commission concluded in 2004 that the U.S. was engaged in a war with terrorists and never realized it, they reasoned that “a failure of
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COUNTERTERRORISM EXPERT TO SPEAK CLARE M. LOPEZ UNREST AND CHANGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST CHAPEL HILL REPUBLICAN WOMEN’S LUNCHEON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 11:30 AM CHAPEL HILL COUNTRY CLUB 103 LANCASTER DRIVE, CHAPEL HILL RSVP: Joan Long 942 2325, cost of luncheon – $20 Clare M. Lopez is a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a
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