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Egypt’s Election All About Image, Almost

Mariz Tadros

(Mariz Tadros is an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo.)

For background on the NDP’s political imagery, see Mona El-Ghobashy, “Egypt Looks Ahead to Portentous Year,” Middle East Report Online, February 2, 2005.
The skies of Cairo are cluttered with strips of cloth daub..

Egypt chooses leader in landmark vote
Veteran leader all but certain to head off all challengers amid reports of widespread irregularities.
By Jean-Marc Mojon - CAIRO

Egyptians voted Wednesday in the country’s first contested presidential election with veteran leader Hosni Mubarak all but certain to head off all challengers amid reports of widespread irregularities.

T..

"Children for Change" Movement in Egypt: We Want Mubarak Out Because He Arrests People Unjustly and Beats Them with a Whip
 
The following are excerpts from an interview with the leaders of the "Children for Change" movement in Egypt, which aired on Dream 2 TV on August 23, 2005.

Host: The leader of the movement and two members are with us. let’s get to know them and see wha..

Opposition claims massive fraud in Egypt poll
Observers predict incumbent president will seek to tamper with election results to ensure sufficient legitimacy.
By Joelle Bassoul - CAIRO

Indignant opposition candidates and independent monitors claimed Thursday that incumbent Hosni Mubarak’s camp had massively violated electoral law during Egypt’s first contested presidential poll.<..

The memory of Al-kiblah .. Changing and the beginning of a new school year
The Word of Al-Morshed
The memory of Al-kiblah

Changing and the beginning of a new school year

A message from Muhammad Mahdi Akef, the guide of the group of Moslem Brothers

Published on 09/15/2005

Praise is to Allah! The Lord of the worlds, and the prayer and the peace on the deleg..

Egypt’s Judges Cannot Guarantee Openess
in Next Week’s Election
CAIRO - Egypt’s judges warned that the transparency of next Wednesday’s presidential election could not be guaranteed unless they have complete independence to fulfill their task of supervising the polls.


However, cassation court Judge Mahmud Makki, speaking Friday amid widespread voter threats to boycott the poll..

No ’Turning Back’ in Egypt

By David Ignatius

CAIRO -- It’s hard to imagine Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as a change agent. During the 24 years he has ruled this country, he has displayed a military man’s passion for stability and a corresponding wariness of democracy. His Egypt has often symbolized the political stasis of the Arab world.

But unlikely as it sounds..

An Egyptian-style vote

WHAT IF they held an election and nobody much cared? In Egypt, barely 1 in 4 voters turned out for the first open presidential vote in a half-century.

A fifth, six-year term for 77-year old Hosni Mubarak was never in doubt. His party made sure its man came in first via an army of chanting and intimidating poll watchers, raffle prizes to loyalists and tail..

Egypt sets date for parly vote
 

Cairo - Egypt’s three-phase parliamentary elections will kick off on November 9 and end on December 7, according to a presidential decree published in Tuesday’s local press.

Residents in the governorates of Cairo, Guiza (south of the capital), Menufiya (in the Delta), al-Wadi al-Gadid (in the Western Sahara) and in the Upper Egypt govern..

After Egypt’s Vote, a Surge of Skepticism

By Daniel Williams
Washington Post Foreign Service

CAIRO,As the oilcloth campaign posters came down from Cairo street corners, Hayan Saad, whose husband has been jailed since 2003 despite court orders for his release, laughed out loud at the suggestion she might have gone to vote for President Hosni Mubarak.

"What? He is the s..

Egypt Has Received No Request to Monitor Election

Ambassador Mokhles Kotb, Secretary General of National Council for Human Rights (NHCR) said that there were no requests from foreign observers to monitor the presidential elections.

He made it clear that there is no foreign observer has a capacity to monitor the election without an official invitation by the State.

He made c..

Kefaya’s Need of America Leaves Bitter Taste
CAIRO - Washington’s drive for democratic change in Egypt has left the country’s reformist opposition torn between a deep-rooted anti-Americanism and the potential windfall of US support.

"Do you think Washington will issue a statement to condemn this?" snapped an angry protestor during a recent protest in Cairo by the Kefaya ("Enough" in A..

Egypt urged to advance democracy
State Department official Cheney meets politicians

By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO, Egypt -- A top State Department official said Thursday the Bush administration’s commitment to expanding democracy in the Arab world is "absolute and very firm" because U.S. national security is at stake.

Elizabeth Cheney, deputy a..

But when asked if the regime will legalize the Muslim Brotherhood,
Egypt s most popul..

Egypt Opposition Unites Against Mubarak
By NADIA ABOU El-MAGD
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt -- Leaders from 10 of Egypt’s major opposition groups agreed to put aside their deep enmity for one another and join forces against President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party in next month’s parliamentary elections.

Conspicuously missing from the National Front for Change that was forme..

Is the U.S. Ready for Egyptian Democracy?
By Geneive Abdo
In the wake of Egypt’s reelection of President Hosni Mubarak on Sept. 7, the chattering classes have been pouring praise on Mubarak’s government for a vote they view as a first step toward shattering a half-century of authoritarian rule. For the first time in Egyptian history, multiple candidates were allowed to stand in the elect..

Civil Rights Activits Munsif Marzuqi

 "The Tyrranical Arab Ragimes Have Turned Us From A Wealthy Nation To Impoverished Peoples."
 
The following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Munsif Al-Marzuqi, a civil rights activist in France, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on August 30, 2005

Marzuqi: Any reform must first identify the flaw. Second, it must address th..

"Children for Change" Movement in Egypt
 We Want Mubarak Out Because He Arrests People Unjustly and Beats Them with a Whip
 
The following are excerpts from an interview with the leaders of the "Children for Change" movement in Egypt, which aired on Dream 2 TV on August 23, 2005.

Host: The leader of the movement and two members are with us. let’s get to know them and..

EOHR demands immediate release
of detained Islamic Brotherhood members

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) condemns the mass arrests of members of the Islamic Brotherhood organisation carried out by Egyptian state security forces and demands their immediate release.
In addition it calls for an end to the State of Emergency in force since 1981.

Egyptian autho..