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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s Mubarak Talks for 1st Time Since Detention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 02:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / SARAH EL DEEB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(CAIRO) — In his first comments to the media since he was detained more than two years ago, Egypt&#8216;s ousted leader Hosni Mubarak said he is dismayed at the country&#8217;s state of affairs and particularly the plight of the poor. The 85-year old Mubarak said in remarks published Sunday in Al-Watan newspaper that it is also too early to judge his elected successor, Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, because he has a heavy burden to deal with. He also warned against a much-negotiated loan from the International Monetary Fund, saying it would make life harder for the poor in Egypt, where over 40 percent of the population lives on less than $2 a day. The authenticity of the interview could not be immediately verified. Calls by The Associated Press to Mubarak&#8217;s lawyer Farid ElDeeb went unanswered, but he was quoted as telling Ahram Online, the electronic version of the state-owned Al-Ahram, that the interview was a &#8220;fabrication.&#8221; (More: Egypt&#8217;s Last Pharaoh? The Rise and Fall of Hosni Mubarak) Al-Watan&#8217;s reporter, Mohammed el-Sheik, took photos of himself near and inside Mubarak&#8217;s medical helicopter, without the ex-leader inside. El-Sheik said he conducted the interview after sneaking into a waiting area where Mubarak was held during his trial Saturday, apparently before the hearing began. He also told the private ONTV station Sunday that he couldn&#8217;t record the interview because he had to avoid Mubarak&#8217;s tight security. Mubarak has been a longtime nemesis of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which Morsi hails. In his comments to the privately owned Egyptian paper published Sunday, Mubarak appeared to be gloating, painting a picture of a nation that has unraveled following his 2011 ouster and portraying himself as a protector of the poor. Mubarak stepped down in February 2011 in the face of a wave of popular protests whose main slogan was &#8220;Bread, Freedom and Social Justice.&#8221; Protesters accused Mubarak of fostering a culture where power was centralized and police acted with impunity. They also believed Mubarak was grooming one of his sons to succeed him. Mubarak&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86202&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Stabbed Outside U.S. Embassy in Cairo</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/09/american-stabbed-outside-u-s-embassy-in-cairo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / MAGGIE MICHAEL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(CAIRO) &#8212; An Egyptian security official says an American national was attacked and stabbed outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. The official says an assailant attacked the American with a knife as he was standing in front of the embassy building in the Cairo suburb of Garden City on Thursday. The official says the American was rushed to a nearby hospital. He says police arrested the attacker who is now being interrogated. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to the media. Motives for the attack remained unclear. Crime has surged in Egypt, including armed robberies, rape and assaults, over the past two years since the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. PHOTOS: The Backdrop Of A Revolution<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85854&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt Casts Wide Net for Billions to Fill Coffers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / AYA BATRAWY</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(CAIRO) — During a meeting in a Black Sea resort city, Egypt&#8216;s president and members of his government turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked for a sizable loan, according to Putin aide. Egypt&#8217;s Mohammed Morsi appealed to Moscow and Cairo&#8217;s past ties, recalling how the former Soviet Union stepped in to finance the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s after the United States abruptly withdrew from the project, according to Russian media. (More: After Sectarian Violence, Coptic Pope Takes On Egypt’s President) Still, the Russians&#8217; response seemed rather equivocal: We&#8217;ll talk later. Egypt has been knocking on doors around the region seeking billions of dollars in loans, bond purchases and grants, trying to fill rapidly draining coffers so it can keep power stations running and bakeries churning out cheap bread for the country&#8217;s millions of poor. The drive appears to have accelerated ahead of the summer, when the country&#8217;s fragile electricity network often breaks down under increased energy use and when officials have predicted a drop in wheat supplies. Several states — including Qatar and Libya — have responded in recent weeks. But strikingly, a few countries have balked, wary of pouring money into Egypt&#8217;s worsening economy without some political stability after two years of turmoil since the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Moreover, economists worry that Morsi&#8217;s government is relying on an unsustainable policy, scrambling for foreign cash as a temporary cushion that allows it to put off major — and highly unpopular — economic reforms and avoid compromise with its political opponents. The most crucial piece of aid, a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, has been delayed by months of negotiations over how Egypt will reduce its massive system of subsidies, which the poor rely on for cheap fuel and food but which suck up large portions of the budget. The government has taken some limited steps, but many economists believe it is postponing extensive reforms until after parliament elections to avoid austerity measures that could hurt Morsi&#8217;s majority Muslim Brotherhood<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83981&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Sectarian Violence, Coptic Pope Takes On Egypt&#8217;s President</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashraf Khalil / Cairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be unfair and inaccurate to say that Egypt’s Muslim-Christian problems started with the January 2011 revolution. After all, Coptic Christian churches in Egypt were hit in two separate deadly attacks in the final 14 months of Hosni Mubarak’s reign. One of them — a church bombing in Alexandria that killed 23 — came just two months before the Egyptian revolution began. And in November 2010, Coptic youth battled security forces for days in Giza in a dispute over the acrimonious issue of government restrictions on church building permits. In short, Egypt’s sectarian ice had been dangerously thin for years. But this weekend’s sudden spasm of Muslim-Christian violence opened up new cracks: there&#8217;s the very real possibility now of open conflict between Egypt’s fledgling Islamist rulers and the Coptic Orthodox Church itself. The present moment represents yet another serious challenge to a country already paralyzed by political turmoil and caught in a worsening economic spiral. Two years after the euphoria of Mubarak’s people-power ouster, the revolutionary glow has decidedly dimmed. (PHOTOS: Egyptian Copts Mourn and Riot in Cairo) The violence began April 5 in the village of Khosous, just north of Cairo, when an apparent dispute over youths spraying graffiti on a building escalated into an armed clash that left four Christians and one Muslim dead. Two days later, on Sunday, April 7, the funeral for those dead Christian citizens became engulfed in violence as angry Christian mourners apparently clashed with unidentified attackers. Police responded late and haphazardly with several tear-gas canisters landing inside the grounds of St. Mark’s Cathedral in central Cairo, terrifying the Christians seeking refuge inside and leading many to claim that the police were joining in the siege of the cathedral. On Tuesday, Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II took to the public airwaves with an unvarnished and unprecedented attack on President Mohamed Morsi’s government, starkly warning: “This is a society that is collapsing.” In a phone interview with ONTV, one of the country’s most popular and influential satellite news channels, the 60-year-old Pontiff harshly criticized the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=80793&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian Copts Mourn and Riot in Cairo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikko Takkunen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The grim specter of sectarian violence hovers once more over Egypt after a weekend of deadly riots involving Egyptian Copts in Cairo, which followed the funerals of Copts killed in clashes with Muslims in a town north of the capital on Friday.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=80409&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Laughing Matter</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/03/no-laughing-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt’s Islamist rulers clearly have no sense of humor—and that may contribute to their undoing. The country’s top prosecutor issued an arrest warrant on March 30 for Bassem Youssef, Cairo’s most popular comedian. Known as the Jon Stewart of Egypt, Youssef hosts a mock news show that evolved out of the uprising two years ago. Its spoofs and satires have become the symbol of a more tolerant society willing to make fun of its foibles. Youssef’s show also reflects the cultural change that has been as important as political change in the Middle East’s transformation. Comedy, hip-hop, theater, poetry and film helped give voice to the rejection of both autocrats and extremists in the decade after 9/11. That changing culture then helped embolden protesters to take to the streets in 2011. But the government of President Mohamed Morsi seems too thin-skinned to tolerate even playful criticism. The prosecutor has charged that the skits on Youssef’s late-night show went too far by “insulting” Islam and mocking Morsi. But Youssef is outspoken in his adherence to his Muslim faith, and he is an equal-opportunity satirist. Originally trained as a cardiac surgeon, he raced to Tahrir Square in early 2011 to treat protesters badly beaten by baton-wielding thugs on camel-back. The experience turned him into a revolutionary committed to the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. It also led to a career change. “The [revolution] triggered the idea to do a show exposing the hypocrisy that was happening,” he told me last year. “So I became a comedian overnight.” The first skits made fun of the ensconced elites backing Mubarak. The YouTube videos were an instant sensation at a time when social media was the revolution’s primary tool. After Mubarak’s ouster, Youssef was picked up by an Egyptian satellite channel. His current show is among the most popular on Egyptian TV, reaching some 30 million viewers. During the 18 months of military rule that followed Mubarak’s fall, he daringly poked fun at the generals. During the first democratic presidential poll last year, he lampooned all<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79603&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groundhog Day in Cairo: A Brutal Video Raises the Political Stakes in Egypt</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/02/groundhog-day-in-cairo-a-brutal-video-raises-the-political-stakes-in-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashraf Khalil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks in Egypt have been a period of Groundhog Day–style revolutionary déjà vu. The images are familiar: protesters battling through clouds of tear gas on the outskirts of Tahrir Square and in front of the Information Ministry; a state of emergency declared; the army deployed in three major cities along the Suez Canal; and the embattled President promising to take radical steps to preserve public order. For many of Egypt’s original revolutionaries, it has felt like February 2011 all over again. But Friday night’s violent and chaotic scene outside the presidential palace brought to mind yet another disturbing memory: the savage December 2011 assault on protesters in Tahrir Square. That attack yielded a virtual mountain of video allegedly showing army and police officers beating helpless protesters — including women — and firing weapons at point-blank range. This time, there’s only one such piece of evidence — video apparently showing central-security riot police beating the limp body of a naked man before dragging him into one of their vans. But the reaction has sent the administration of President Mohamed Morsi into spasms of spin-doctoring and produced even more bad blood in the country’s seemingly intractable political standoff. (MORE: Revolt of Egypt’s Canal Cities: An Ill Omen for Morsi) “It’s too little and too late” for a political solution, says Mohammed Sherdy, a veteran opposition politician and a native of Port Said — the Suez Canal city that served as the epicenter of this latest weeklong outbreak of violence. “Political solutions should have happened a month ago or two months ago.” Exactly what happened outside the presidential palace last night remains a divisive issue. But according to multiple eyewitnesses and participants, the violence started from the protester side when a small contingent of demonstrators began throwing Molotov cocktails at the palace. That’s something that would prompt just about any government to crack down hard. But the apparent brutality of the videotaped attack raised an unwelcome parallel for Morsi. Under now deposed President Hosni Mubarak, then under the interim rule<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67028&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revolt of Egypt&#8217;s Canal Cities: An Ill Omen for Morsi</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/29/revolt-of-the-egypts-canal-cities-an-ill-omen-for-morsi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashraf Khalil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memory is implacable in Egypt’s three major cities on the Suez Canal: Port Said in the north, Ismailia in the middle and Suez in the south. There is still vestigial rancor from British colonial days; and there is a hardened sense of honor and neglect from being at the front lines of the wars with Israel in the 1960s and ’70s. Those emotions have often turned inward, against Egypt itself and whoever rules from Cairo. The first martyrs in the January 2011 revolt against Hosni Mubarak were from the canal cities, and their blood fed a nationwide cry for vengeance. Now President Mohamed Morsi finds his greatest popular challenge not in the huge urban centers of Cairo or Alexandria but in the three troublesome cities. It was no surprise that Egyptian police lost control of Port Said almost immediately after a Cairo court handed down death sentences on Jan. 26 to 21 residents from the canal city for their alleged role in a February 2012 soccer riot that killed 72 people. In the aftermath of the verdict, relatives of the condemned laid siege to the local prison and would have breached it if Morsi hadn&#8217;t called in the army. At least 30 people were killed in the mayhem — a toll that easily eclipsed the police action visited upon the more cogently political protests in Tahrir Square in Cairo. The bloodshed simply contributed to the local sense of outrage and marginalization. As one Port Said resident screamed to the cameras of al-Jazeera: &#8220;We bled for this country! We died for Egypt&#8217;s freedom! Why is our blood so cheap now?&#8221; (PHOTOS: Cairo&#8217;s Latest Uprising, Two Years After Revolution) The President imposed a 30-day state of emergency and nightly curfews in Port Said, Suez and Ismailia. The residents were unfazed; indeed they took to Morsi’s declaration of a 9 p.m. curfew with a rebellious gusto, making a point of scheduling their protest marches to start at 8:45 p.m. For decades, the cities have been a tribe apart within of Egypt. The last<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=66216&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Bad to Worse: Economic Woes May Compound Egypt&#8217;s Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bad news for Egypt is that the deadly turmoil that has gripped the streets of some of the country&#8217;s main cities since last Friday threatens to grow worse in the months ahead. That&#8217;s because President Mohamed Morsi’s plans to save Egypt&#8217;s sinking economy hinge on a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund requiring the imposition of tough austerity measures that will further erode the living standards of many of those already calling for his ouster. The latest wave of clashes is fueled by multiple, overlapping political crises: a deep-seated mistrust in post-Mubarak institutions, particularly the judiciary and security services left over from the old regime; the repeated efforts by Morsi&#8217;s Islamists to use (sometimes narrow) victories at the polls as a basis to monopolize power; the inability of the secular opposition to reconcile themselves to the democratic verdict of the electorate and their apparent belief that they can topple Morsi like they did Hosni Mubarak &#8212; by protesting in Tahrir Square; and the violent nihilism of the tribal &#8220;ultras,&#8221; who follow the country&#8217;s various professional soccer teams, as well as that of the masked self-styled anarchists of the Black Bloc that announced itself last Friday in a hail of stones and Molotov cocktails on the fringes of Cairo demonstrations. Each element blames the others, of course, but history&#8217;s verdict may not be kind to a political class engaged in a zero-sum battle for the wheelhouse while the economy is listing badly. (MORE: Revolt of Egypt&#8217;s Canal Cities: An Ill Omen for Morsi) The key lifeline on offer &#8212; a $5 billion loan from the IMF &#8212; can be accessed only on the condition of implementing austerity measures that will bring a sharp spike in the economic pain suffered by millions of impoverished households. It&#8217;s the sort of package most governments would shy away from at the best of political times; Morsi&#8217;s would have to implement it amid a running battle for the streets in some of the cities where such measures will bite hardest and whose working-class residents pride<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65386&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cairo&#8217;s Latest Uprising: Protests and Clashes Two Years after the Revolution</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/28/cairos-latest-uprising-protests-and-clashes-continue-two-years-after-the-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikko Takkunen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spurred by disillusionment with the pace of democratic reforms, the toll of a grinding economic crisis and opposition to the increasingly autocratic governance of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, unrest in Cairo and other Egyptian cities raged two years after the Jan. 25, 2011 uprising, which toppled the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. (MORE: 1 Killed in Clashes in Egyptian Capital) (MORE: Blood in Egypt’s Streets: Anger in Tahrir, Then Soccer Violence in Port Said)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=66092&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blood in Egypt’s Streets: Anger in Tahrir, Then Soccer Violence in Port Said</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/26/blood-in-egypts-streets-anger-in-tahrir-then-soccer-violence-in-port-said/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashraf Khalil / Cairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution on Friday was an unhappy affair, but the violence that accompanied it was merely a precursor to the greater bloodshed that came on Saturday. Together, the two days of turmoil brought the precarious state of modern Egypt into full display — with dual sources of unrest and potential mayhem. At 10 a.m. on Saturday, the first batch of verdicts was delivered in Egypt’s worst-ever instance of soccer violence. After announcing the death sentence for 21 civilian soccer fans for a Port Said team, the judge practically ran out of the courtroom. Who could blame him? This case had been particularly vicious. On Feb. 1, 2012, after a match between Cairo&#8217;s al-Ahly club and Port Said&#8217;s al-Masry club, fans of al-Masry stormed the field and attacked their rivals. Police on the scene largely stood aside and in the ensuing violence and stampede, 72 people — mostly al-Ahly fans — were killed. A total of 73 people were eventually put on trial over the incident — ranging from al-Masry club fans and club officials to senior police officers accused of neglect. Hardcore al-Ahly fans, known as ultras, have repeatedly demanded justice for their martyrs and threatened violence if they weren&#8217;t satisfied. At Saturday’s verdict, the hundreds of al-Ahly fans gathered in Cairo exploded into celebration; residents of Port Said, however, merely exploded. Within minutes of the verdict, Port Said natives attempted to break into the local prison where the convicted defendants were being held. As of Saturday evening, the death toll in Port Said had risen to at least 30 people, and the army had been deployed in the city. (PHOTOS: Egypt’s Revolution in Retrospect: TIME Goes to Tahrir Square) The Port Said case is deeply intertwined with the revolution and its aftermath. The ultras actively participated in the revolution and emerged afterward as implacable enemies of both the police and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. A hardcore contingent of ultras insists the Port Said deaths were not the result of official negligence but rather were orchestrated<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65841&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s Revolution in Retrospect: TIME Goes to Tahrir Square</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/25/egypts-revolution-in-retrospect-time-goes-to-tahrir-square/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikko Takkunen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A selection of the best photography from TIME&#8217;s coverage of the revolution that started on Jan. 25, 2011&#8211;and its turbulent aftermath<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65689&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cairo’s Anxious Days: The Revolution’s Anniversary and a Soccer Riot Verdict</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/24/cairos-anxious-days-the-revolutions-anniversary-and-a-soccer-riot-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashraf Khalil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The streets of Cairo were largely clear on Thursday and the normally cacophonous megacity was unusually tranquil thanks to a national holiday celebrating the Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s birthday. But the day&#8217;s calm was temporary, coming in advance of what promises to be a chaotic and volatile weekend&#8211;in a country that has recently known little other than chaotic volatility. Friday Jan. 25 marks the two-year anniversary of the start of the landmark 18-day popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak from power. The ensuing two years have been marked&#8211;as much as anything&#8211;by divisiveness and polarization. Those two traits seem certain to be on full display. Massive protests are planned in both Tahrir Square and across town outside the Presidential palace where longtime Muslim Brotherhood official Mohammed Morsi now holds power as the nation&#8217;s first elected civilian President. (MORE: &#8216;No Glimmers of Hope’: Two Years After Egypt’s Revolution, an Economic Crisis Looms) The protests promise to be both a rekindling of the revolutionary &#8220;Republic of Tahrir&#8221; and a display of defiant opposition to Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood. The day also seems certain to be steeped in both anger and nostalgia for the brief revolutionary window when both secularists and Islamists united in opposition to Mubarak&#8217;s rule. That unity started to break down almost as soon as Mubarak left the stage. After more than a year in which the military controlled the country&#8211;to almost everyone&#8217;s dissatisfaction&#8211;now it is the Islamists in power and the largely secular forces in increasingly angry opposition. The last few months in particular have witnessed a dramatic deterioration of that already problematic relationship. Morsi&#8217;s late-November power play to force through a highly divisive constitution have burned all bridges between the camps&#8211;leaving little more than a public shouting match in place of national consensus. But despite the bitterness on display few expect Friday&#8217;s anniversary to be marred by too much serious violence. Ziad Akl, a political scientist and activist, predicted there would inevitably be some minor clashes along the edges of Tahrir with groups of more radical protesters attempting to reach<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65575&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;No Glimmers of Hope&#8217;: Two Years After Egypt&#8217;s Revolution, an Economic Crisis Looms</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/23/no-glimmers-of-hope-two-years-after-egypts-revolution-an-economic-crisis-looms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Malsin / Cairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramadan Khalaf Amin, 24, a microbus driver who earns the equivalent of $4.50 a day, is one of the myriad faces of the Egyptian revolution the world does not know. “I was going down to Tahrir the whole time,” Amin remembers of the uprising, whipping out a cell phone to play a video of demonstrators chanting, “Down with Hosni Mubarak!” On a recent Friday, Amin was parked at the noisy junction where the ramshackle brick buildings of the Manshiet Nasser district meet the main highway, one of many such points where commuters make the crossing from Cairo’s unplanned, helter-skelter slums into the government-planned districts of the city. It was at this intersection where, during the uprising, demonstrators set fire to the local government offices. (MORE: Cairo’s New Normal: Protests Spawn a World of Walls and Barricades) With the two-year anniversary of the revolt approaching, Egypt’s economy is struggling, and the new Muslim Brotherhood–backed government is far from resolving the manifold problems of poverty and urban deprivation that bubbled beneath the 2011 revolt. If anything, a rapidly dropping currency combined with austerity measures mandated by international lenders means that life is only going to get harder for the middle class and the poor in the coming months. Amin’s parents migrated to Cairo from the Upper Egypt town of Asyut years ago in search of work. He was born in Cairo and lived his whole life in Manshiet Nasser, dropping out of school after the fourth grade. Amin is actually faring better than many in his neighborhood. The family moved into recently built subsidized housing. He earns more than the quarter of Egypt’s 80 million people surviving on just a dollar and a half a day, according to government figures released in 2012. He despairs at lacking government services in his neighborhood and the slow pace of change since the revolt. “I don’t think this area will ever change,” he says, referring to Manshiet Nasser. “People are not only poor but also uneducated.” Poverty alone does not cause revolutions. Many other countries are poorer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65108&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mubarak’s New Trial: How Egyptian Politics Will Weave Its Way into It</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/15/mubaraks-new-trial-how-egyptian-politics-will-weave-its-way-into-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Malsin / Cairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human-rights advocates are cautiously welcoming a decision by Egypt’s top appeals court to order a retrial for former President Hosni Mubarak and other top officials over the killings of protesters during the uprising that ejected him from power in 2011. The June 2, 2012 verdict touched off a wave of marches, with demonstrators once again seizing control of Cairo’s Tahrir Square, dragging barricades into place within moments of Judge Ahmed Rifaat’s announcement of the decision on live television. Although the court gave Mubarak and former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly life sentences for failing to prevent protesters&#8217; deaths, demonstrators were angry that the three-judge panel had failed to convict four top Interior Ministry officials widely seen as responsible for the killings of protesters during the January 2011 uprising. On Sunday the appeals court overturned that decision and ordered a retrial in the case. A small crowd of Mubarak loyalists reportedly celebrated the decision, but this time there were no major opposition protests. Mubarak, now 84 and being held in a military hospital, remains under investigation in a separate case and will not go free. (PHOTOS: The New Battle for Egypt) A retrial in the case opens the possibility of staging a more credible trial and bringing in new evidence, including information found in a recently completed report by a high-level fact-finding commission tasked with investigating protesters’ deaths. Human Rights Watch’s Egypt director Heba Morayef says the initial trial of Mubarak and his aides had been both politicized and procedurally flawed. “There were clear procedural violations and so that, in and of itself, for me, from a fair-trial perspective, means that that original sentence needed to be overturned, on purely technical grounds,” she says. Judge Rifaat’s June decision did not establish Mubarak’s personal involvement in the deaths of protesters, and went further to say that there was no evidence that the police were involved, a statement many Egyptians find hard to believe after witnessing the street fighting between police and protesters during the uprising. Most shocking for rights activists, though, was the acquittal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=63868&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Supporters of Egypt&#039;s deposed president Mubarak hold up his pictures as they celebrate outside the Maadi Armed Forces hospital, where Mubarak is currently being held, in Cairo</media:title>
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		<title>Cairo&#8217;s New Normal: Protests Spawn a World of Walls and Barricades</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/08/cairos-new-normal-protests-spawn-a-world-of-walls-and-barricades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Malsin / Cairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramadan Romih, the heavyset manager of the White House Net, an Internet café up the street from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his shop, smoking a large tobacco water pipe. He hasn’t had many customers recently, he says, because of the high concrete wall blocking the street next to his shop. The wall was built by the Egyptian government this past November to ward off demonstrators from nearby Tahrir Square away from the embassy. Romih, 41, commutes downtown from a working-class neighborhood near the pyramids. His shop ordinarily depends on foot traffic from the bustling business districts surrounding Tahrir Square, but now because of an elaborate system of walls and barbed-wire roadblocks built by the authorities, the area near the embassy has been cut off from the core of the downtown. As a result, he said, his business is “at zero.” By late afternoon that day his revenue was only 20 Egyptian pounds, or a little over $3. “People should dig tunnels like they do in Gaza,” he said, waving his water-pipe hose at the unsightly wall. (PHOTOS: Egypt: Thousands Protest President Morsi’s Decree) Two of the storefronts adjacent to White House Net were gutted, Romih said, during recent clashes between demonstrators and police. The burned-out shell of a car still lies upside down in the road in front of the shop. Across the street, men in business suits were hoisting themselves over a tall iron fence in order to get home from work, handing briefcases to one another over the top of the barrier. Armed security men stationed at a checkpoint leading to the embassy looked on. Because of the government’s walls, scenes like this one are the new normal in the upscale neighborhood of Garden City and other areas south of Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the winter 2011 uprising that ended the 30-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. On one recent afternoon, at the same intersection near the embassy I saw a young woman hand a pink plastic carrier containing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=62349&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Image: Egyptian army engineers and soldiers build a third line of concrete blocks outside of the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo, Dec. 9, 2012</media:title>
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		<title>France&#8217;s Colonial Hangover: Apologizing Abroad, Ignoring Injustice at Home</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/28/frances-colonial-hangover-apologizing-abroad-ignoring-injustice-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent visit of French President François Hollande to Algeria received praise for addressing the painful historical wounds that continue plaguing relations between the two countries. In doing so, Hollande acknowledged the “brutal and unjust” manner in which France treated its former Algerian colony — a sober recognition that pointedly stopped short of the full apology officials in Algiers have long demanded. Still, coming a full 50 years after Algeria won its independence with a long and gruesome war, Hollande’s words drew a thundering ovation from the Algerian parliament during his Dec. 20 address. &#8220;Over 132 years, Algeria was subjected to a profoundly unjust and brutal system,&#8221; Hollande said during his two-day visit. &#8220;This system has a name: it is colonialism, and I recognize the suffering that colonialism inflicted on the Algerian people.&#8221; (MORE: Algeria’s Ghosts: France Acknowledges a 1961 Police Massacre) But despite the praise — and protest — Hollande’s comments generated on both sides of the Mediterranean, he failed to touch on two terrible, living consequences of France’s legacy in Algeria. First among those is the historical background in which the continuing discrimination and ghettoization of millions of French Arabs are rooted — much like the increasingly open expression of Islamophobia within French society. Second is his failure to acknowledge the deeply corrupt, brutal and military-supported Algerian power structure that has dominated the country since independence — one that Paris has preferred to placate and patronize, even as it presses for democracy elsewhere. “France wants liberty in Syria, [and] hails Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt being rid of their dictators, but Hollande didn’t say a word condemning Algerian suppression,” wrote François Sergent in the Dec. 21 editorial of French daily Libération. “[It’s] a repressive system imposed by omnipresent military security, and a caste made wealthy from oil sales the people haven’t seen a dinar of. France wants democracy everywhere, but not in Algeria.” (MORE: Algeria Rescinds Emergency Powers — but Isn’t Bending to Popular Unrest) That tormented, contradictory and at times darkly neurotic relationship is anything but new. Algeria was<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61193&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morsi&#8217;s Next Move: Egypt&#8217;s President Got His Constitution, but Can He Fix the Economy?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/27/morsis-next-move-egypts-president-got-his-constitution-but-can-he-fix-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashraf Khalil / Cairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi last spoke to his nation on Dec. 6, he was angry and defiant. He deplored the deadly clashes between opposing protesters outside the presidential palace while ignoring his own Muslim Brotherhood’s role in sparking that violence. And he made vague accusations — not dissimilar to those once uttered by the toppled dictator President Hosni Mubarak — that his opponents were being paid by sinister foreign interests. That appearance built on an earlier one in late November after Morsi issued constitutional decree greatly expanding his powers, thus appearing to be President of the Islamists rather than the elected leader of all Egyptians. He spoke before a cheering crowd of supporters in front of the presidential palace while opposition protesters battled police in Tahrir Square. Even senior Brotherhood officials later admitted that it would have been better for Morsi to address the nation on more neutral terms. (PHOTOS: Thousands in Cairo Protest Morsi’s Decree) But on Wednesday night, in the wake of a victorious ratification of his controversial constitution, Morsi presented a far more polished and conciliatory face. He hailed the constitution as a major victory for the new democratic Egypt and spent much of his time offering an olive branch to the non-Islamist forces who have grown increasingly bitter and hostile toward his rule. Morsi on Wednesday night looked like a man in the home stretch of an arduous journey with the most difficult part already past him. He spoke with regret of the “difficult decisions” he has been forced to make in the past two months in order to bring this constitution to fruition. At several points he offered veiled apologies for all the eggs he had to break in order to make the constitutional omelet. “It’s a healthy phenomenon to have these differences of opinion and ideas,” Morsi said. “To those who voted no and to those who voted yes, I offer my thanks.” (MORE: Exclusive: Egypt&#8217;s Morsi Tells TIME, &#8216;We&#8217;re Learning How to Be Free&#8217;) Exactly how healthy the past two months in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61231&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: An image released by the Egyptian Presidency shows President Mohamed Morsi at his office in the presidential palace in Cairo on Dec. 26, 2012, as he signs a new constitution.</media:title>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s Referendum: As Second Vote Nears, National Unity Nowhere in Sight</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/20/egypts-referendum-as-second-vote-nears-national-unity-nowhere-in-sight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashraf Khalil / Cairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New constitutions, particularly in postrevolutionary societies, ought to be unifying documents. They are supposed to articulate what collective future a nation sees for itself. Halfway through the final step in Egypt’s tortured and toxic constitutional process, no such consensus exists. As the country gets ready for the second round of a national referendum, the proposed constitution seems both likely to get approved and guaranteed to exacerbate, rather than heal, divisions within Egyptian society. Voters in 10 governorates — including Alexandria and half of Cairo — cast their ballots on Dec. 15; the rest vote this Saturday. The upheaval and tumult preceding this moment — punctuated by authoritarian edicts and mass protests — have deepened animosities and fissures between Egypt’s Islamist government and an increasingly defiant opposition. When President Mohamed Morsi issued his Thanksgiving-night decree granting himself sweeping powers and shielding his government from judicial oversight, it touched off a political earthquake that continues to rumble. (MORE: The Muslim Brotherhood and the New Egyptian Divide) Morsi finally rescinded the decree on Dec. 8 in the face of massive protests both in Tahrir Square and across town in the streets around the presidential palace. But in the meantime the Islamist-dominated Constituent Assembly had succeeded in rushing through approval of the constitution despite a widespread walkout by most secularists, women and all Christians. Morsi quickly set a fast-track deadline for the referendum, giving those campaigning against the current proposed constitution little time to prepare. The crisis has led to numerous clashes between the warring factions. Angry protesters in multiple cities have trashed offices of both the Brotherhood and its political offshoot, the Freedom and Justice Party. The Brotherhood meanwhile unleashed its cadres on Dec. 5 against the tent city of anti-Morsi protesters that had sprung up outside the palace. The ensuing clashes left at least 10 people dead and spawned multiple allegations — backed by videos — that Brotherhood members had beaten, detained and interrogated opposing protesters. The first round of voting offered little reason to be encouraged by Egypt’s fledgling democracy. Voter turnout was<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60525&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: A street vendor holds a bunch of Egyptian flags for sale while supporters of Egypt&#039;s opposition take part in a demonstration in front of the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Dec. 18, 2012.</media:title>
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		<title>The Muslim Brotherhood and the New Egyptian Divide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt is running short on common ground.  The election of Mohamed Morsi as president was itself a near thing, the longtime Muslim Brotherhood official winning office with less than 52% of the vote over a former prime minister from the time of Hosni Mubarak.  But in the last two weeks, his decisions have polarized the country to the extent that some saw, in the strife of the last two weeks, glimpses of a potential civil war. Much of the problem is the Brotherhood and its the ambiguous performance so far, as I report in my magazine story this week. Just what is the Muslim Brotherhood? Is it the flailing, benign but essentially well-intentioned force described by a senior Brotherhood official named Gehad el-Haddad, who wears a lapel pin of the Egyptian flag? Or is it the juggernaut of political Islam feared by the West for most of a century, a shadowy group intent on dismantling the modern nation state to restore the dominion of a Caliphate over the the world’s Muslims? Or is it, as some Islamist thinkers maintain, essentially a spent force, a haven of mediocrity that exists largely to perpetuate itself? (PHOTOS: The New Battle for Egypt) Six months into the Brotherhood&#8217;s rule, no clear answer has emerged.  But one thing it hasn&#8217;t done, not two years after the stirring revolution, is build anything remotely resembling consensus.  The clannish, long-underground organization entered the realm of electoral politics with no great reservoir of trust among non-members, and since coming to power has done little to re-assure the many skeptics.  As el-Haddad put it,  in an interview with myself and TIME&#8217;s Cairo reporter, Ashraf Khalil, the organization has been writing checks on its credibility since the revolution, and needs to start replenishing its account. Morsi hasn’t helped. The former physics teacher was genial and good-humored when three of us from the magazine met him in the presidential palace on Nov. 28, a Wednesday.  But one of the most sensitive statements he made during that interview  was, shall we say, inoperative<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=59316&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Members of the Republican Guard stand behind a wall erected to block a road that anti-Morsi protesters are trying to use to reach the presidential palace, on Dec. 11, 2012.</media:title>
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