Egypt

Egyptian activists in shock over election results

Posted by on May 31, 2012 in Dawn Smith, Dawn Smith Brighton Michigan, Egypt, elections, Freedom of Expression, Middle East and North Africa, RSS Syndicated Posts, SCAF, Shahira Amin, Tahrir Square

Egyptians reacted in shock and despair after official results of the first round of Egypt’s first multi-candidate presidential elections were announced on Monday afternoon on Egyptian State TV’s main Arabic news channel. Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim B…

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Voters flock to polls in Egypt’s first multi-candidate election

Posted by on May 25, 2012 in arab spring, Dawn Smith, Dawn Smith Brighton Michigan, Egypt, Egyptian elections, post-revolution Egypt, RSS Syndicated Posts, Shahira Amin

Fifteen months after Hosni Mubarak ’s ouster, this week Egyptians headed to the ballot box to choose a new President in the country’s first multi-candidate Presidential election. Unlike previous polls when election results had invariably been …

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Egypt: State television heads back to old ways

Posted by on May 14, 2012 in Censorship, Dawn Smith, Dawn Smith Brighton Michigan, Egypt, Freedom of Expression, Media, protest, RSS Syndicated Posts, Shahira Amin, State TV

As Egypt prepares for presidential elections in less than two weeks’ time, the country is on the brink of chaos. Tensions have been brewing for more than a year and the patience of Egyptians is wearing thin. They yearn for stability and many feel be…

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New wave of violence threatens Egyptian presidential elections

Posted by on May 4, 2012 in 6 April Movement, abbaseya, Egypt, elections, Freedom of Expression, Middle East and North Africa, protest, RSS Syndicated Posts, SCAF, Shahira Amin

Violent clashes between  protesters staging a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry Headquarters in Cairo’s Abbasseya district and unknown assailants killed at least 20 people on Wednesday and left scores of others injured. The violence began in the e…

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