Tahrir Square is dark, and all of a sudden endlessly sad. There are still countless tents in the middle of the roundabout, banners carried by the wind, even a small and provisory ‘Museum of Revolution’….
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January 29, 2013, Port Said, Egypt. It is dark, pitch dark, on the streets of Port Said. Small groups of young men are gathering in the center of the city, mostly around burnt out cars. Some…
Mursi, Marching Masses, El-Sissi and the X-Factor The mass protests in Egypts major cities continue in spite of emergency laws, curfews and crackdowns. The Egyptian opposition parties have turned down President Mursi´s invitation to national…
The so-called “Arab Spring:” is a distant and bitter memory to those who fought and struggled for a better world, not to speak of the thousands who lost, life and limb. In its place, throughout…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/libya-salafi-muslim-obama-098/i905061336076e79400a9c9b8de2707b9_pepe_escobar.flv] Washington’s hopes of dealing with the situation caused by a controversial film that’s sparked outrage in Muslim world are paralyzed by the looming presidential election, Pepe Escobar, Asia Times correspondent, told RT. Escobar says…
The Interior Minister of Egypt, Ahmad Ed-Deen, stated in the government-run newspaper Al-Akhbar, that it has identified seven persons who are under suspicion for having carried out a deadly attack on an Egyptian military post…
You’d better not mess with Muslim Brother Morsi. Straight out of “communist” China – where he secured a red carpet welcome from President Hu Jintao and vice-president Xi Jinping – the Egyptian president lands in…
BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — China and Egypt have reaffirmed their support for an independent State of Palestine, according to a joint press communique issued here on Thursday. The independent state should have full sovereignty…
BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhuanet) — The new President in Egypt. His first visit to China. Mohamed Morsi has begun his three-day visit to China just two months after taking office. President Hu Jintao welcomed him to Beijing. Chinese President Hu…
Many were surprised on June 24, 2012, when the Egyptian army let Mohamed Morsi be declared Egypt’s first Islamist president in the freest elections in the country’s history. He confronted and won the army-backed candidate,…