Cairo — Egypt's state prosecutors ordered the arrest Saturday of a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's leader, in a move that government opponents say is aimed at silencing critics of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The arrest warrant for against Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as Egypt's Jon Stewart, followed an order earlier this week by the country's top prosecutor to arrest five prominent pro-democracy activists in what the opposition has characterized as a widening campaign against dissent.
The acceleration in legal action targeting protesters, activists and critics comes against a backdrop of continued unrest in the country. Political compromise between the well-organized Islamists in power and their vocal liberal and largely secular critics remains elusive, while the country's economy is in near free fall, which has increasingly fueled popular frustration.
The opposition charges that Morsi, in office for nine months, and the Brotherhood...
The arrest warrant for against Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as Egypt's Jon Stewart, followed an order earlier this week by the country's top prosecutor to arrest five prominent pro-democracy activists in what the opposition has characterized as a widening campaign against dissent.
The acceleration in legal action targeting protesters, activists and critics comes against a backdrop of continued unrest in the country. Political compromise between the well-organized Islamists in power and their vocal liberal and largely secular critics remains elusive, while the country's economy is in near free fall, which has increasingly fueled popular frustration.
The opposition charges that Morsi, in office for nine months, and the Brotherhood...
- 3/30/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
In May of 2003, Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian-born director of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, received intelligence that Muammar al-Qaddafi’s Libyan government was developing nuclear weaponry. Based on this information, ElBaradei flew to Tripoli to investigate the Libyan nuclear capability and initiate a path to disarmament. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, ElBaradei recalls his impressions of Libya’s erratic leader—including Qaddafi’s ambitions and insecurities about his country’s place in the diplomatic pecking order, his unsettling behavior in the company of visiting world leaders, and Libya’s unpreparedness for competing on the world stage.
- 3/25/2011
- Vanity Fair
Wael Ghonim worked a day job at Google, but at night he was organizing a revolution. In this week's Newsweek, Mike Giglio on how the man once known only as El Shaheeed sparked an uprising.
The telephone call from Cairo came late on Thursday, Jan. 27. "I think they're following me," the caller told the friend on the other end. "I'm going to destroy this phone."
Related story on The Daily Beast: Facebook Chat Gets Hijacked
And then the line went dead.
Soon after, so did cellphones across Egypt, and then the Internet, as authorities cut communication in a last-ditch effort to halt the protests gripping the country.
The only trace the caller left was in cyberspace, where he had delivered a haunting message via Twitter: "Pray for #Egypt."
Three days later in Washington, D.C., Nadine Wahab, an Egyptian émigré and media-relations professional, sat staring at her computer, hoping rumors...
The telephone call from Cairo came late on Thursday, Jan. 27. "I think they're following me," the caller told the friend on the other end. "I'm going to destroy this phone."
Related story on The Daily Beast: Facebook Chat Gets Hijacked
And then the line went dead.
Soon after, so did cellphones across Egypt, and then the Internet, as authorities cut communication in a last-ditch effort to halt the protests gripping the country.
The only trace the caller left was in cyberspace, where he had delivered a haunting message via Twitter: "Pray for #Egypt."
Three days later in Washington, D.C., Nadine Wahab, an Egyptian émigré and media-relations professional, sat staring at her computer, hoping rumors...
- 2/14/2011
- by Mike Giglio
- The Daily Beast
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