Common Ground News Service

Urgent To Do’s: A New Constitution and Reconciliation Programme

Urgent To Do’s: A New Constitution and Reconciliation Programme

MOHAMED EL SAYED, CGNEWS: Whatever your views about what has happened recently in Egypt it’s clear where we need to go from here.

 Juan Cole

Ballot Box or Revolt: The Choice Facing Brotherhood

Ballot Box or Revolt: The Choice Facing Brotherhood

JUAN COLE: The Muslim Brotherhood faces a choice. If they go one route it could lead Egypt into a period of profound and long-lasting devastation

 Juan Cole

Wasted Opportunities: Brotherhood Is ‘Egypt’s Tea Party’

Wasted Opportunities: Brotherhood Is ‘Egypt’s Tea Party’

JUAN COLE: President Morsi has no one to blame but himself. By imposing a ‘Brotherisation’ of Egyptian politics he has forced the opposition onto the streets.

 Juan Cole

Morsi’s Victory: But At What Cost to Egypt’s Future?

Morsi’s Victory: But At What Cost to Egypt’s Future?

JUAN COLE: A deeply polarized country must face the reality that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood cadre have scored an overwhelming victory.

 Juan Cole

Flawed: Ten Reasons Why This Constitution Fails Egypt

Flawed: Ten Reasons Why This Constitution Fails Egypt

JUAN COLE: Some of the figures coming out of the constitutional referendum cause raised eyebrows at the least. But there are deeper problems.

 Juan Cole

Bachmann: Muslim Brotherhood Secret Agent?

Bachmann: Muslim Brotherhood Secret Agent?

JUAN COLE: Could it be the ultimate double bluff? The woman who is charging that the U.S government is infiltrated by the MB could be an agent herself?

 Common Ground News Service

Egyptian Women ‘Fighting Hard’ For Rights

Egyptian Women ‘Fighting Hard’ For Rights

RANDA EL TAHAWY, CGNEWS: Women across the political spectrum in Egypt are refusing to be sidelined or misrepresented.

 Rob L. Wagner

Morsi’s Election: The Opportunity for the U.S.

Morsi’s Election: The Opportunity for the U.S.

ROB L. WAGNER: There’s no doubt that alarm bells were ringing in Washington with the news of Morsi’s election. It does, though, present an opportunity

 Juan Cole

Conspiracy: The Irrational Fear That Drives SCAF

Conspiracy: The Irrational Fear That Drives SCAF

JUAN COLE: There seems to be no rational explanation why SCAF has moved now against parliament. That leaves only the irrational.

 Juan Cole

For Egypt in 2012, Read the United States in ’60s?

For Egypt in 2012, Read the United States in ’60s?

JUAN COLE: The Egyptian electorate seems to have a strong leaning for ‘law and order’. Very similar to the U.S electorate in the 1960s

 Rania Al Malky

Too Late to Save Egypt’s Revolution?

Too Late to Save Egypt’s Revolution?

RANIA AL MALKY: The stakes today with Omar Suleiman perhaps within days of succeeding Mubarak, are just as high as they were on January 25, 2011.

 Rania Al Malky

Egypt: A Long Road to the Starting Point

Egypt: A Long Road to the Starting Point

RANIA AL MALKY: Egypt is approaching full circle, masterminded by SCAF: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

 Rania Al Malky

Politics and Egypt: In the name of God

Politics and Egypt: In the name of God

RANIA AL MALKY: Egypt is on the brink of an Islamic abyss. The Freedom and Justice Party’s tattered poker-faced mask has fallen… So they say…

 Rania Al Malky

In New Egypt, Old Divides Still Rule

In New Egypt, Old Divides Still Rule

RANIA AL MALKY: Muslim residents attacked the home and shops of Coptic tailor, Murad Girgis following a relationship between him and a Muslim woman.

 Common Ground News Service

The U.S. and Muslim Brotherhood: A Match Made in Heaven?

The U.S. and Muslim Brotherhood: A Match Made in Heaven?

MOHAMED EL-SAYED, CGNEWS: A very unlikely relationship indeed is beginning to take shape.

 Rania Al Malky

Egypt’s “Revolution”: With Mubarak Legally Still President, Has It Even Started Yet?

Egypt’s “Revolution”: With Mubarak Legally Still President, Has It Even Started Yet?

RANIA AL MALKY: Guess what you fools, Farid El-Deeb told the court and Egyptians, Mubarak is still the president. This court can’t even try him.

 Juan Cole

Egyptian vs American Elections: What Do Secularists & Women Think of the Results?

Egyptian vs American Elections: What Do Secularists & Women Think of the Results?

JUAN COLE: When Egyptian results are discussed there appears to be a default mechanism requiring the views of women and secularists – but not in the U.S…

 Rania Al Malky

Egypt’s Intelligentisia Needs to Think as its Army Roadblocks Democracy

Egypt’s Intelligentisia Needs to Think as its Army Roadblocks Democracy

RANIA AL MALKY: SCAF’s advisory council should think twice before accepting (at best) a vague role that can only inflame an already tense climate.

 Rania Al Malky

Egypt Elections: What a Difference 365 Days Makes

Egypt Elections: What a Difference 365 Days Makes

RANIA AL MALKY: A year on bitterness has given way to gratitude. Had the elections not been so rigged, the uprising might have never have happened.

 Lucy Emmerson

Egypt Braced for Final ‘Free and Fair’ Results

Egypt Braced for Final ‘Free and Fair’ Results

LUCY EMMERSON: Many people were voting for the first time. “Last time I didn’t vote because my vote didn’t matter,” said Fatima Abdullah…