Month: February 2011

As the military imposes martial law and “calls for an end to strikes and protests” in the face of rising labor unrest: Egypt Revolution: Protesters Vow to Keep Pressure on Military (Christian Science Monitor) Muslim Brotherhood Stand by Demands (UPI) As Hamas rejects the PA’s call for early elections, Ali Abunimah (co-founder of ElectronicIntifada.com) says,…

[B]owing to a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands … Mubarak Resigns, Hands Power to Military (AP / Yahoo) … while the army promises the end of the state of emergency: Egypt Crisis: Army in Pledge to End State of Emergency (BBC) The former Bush administration official targeted by Frank Gaffney…

“[C]onflicting reports emerged about whether the country’s embattled president will resign”: Throngs Pour Into Tahrir Square After Army Chief Says: ‘All Your Demands will be Met’ (abc News) Terms of the U.S. aid to Egypt have allowed “funds labeled by Washington as promoting democracy often ended up being used for other projects, such as sludge…

Doubts about Raymond Davis’s diplomatic status … Diplomatic Immunity and the Raymond Davis Case (Dharti Online) … are exacerbated by his holding “multiple visas from three different Pakistani institutions and having lived in Lahore and Islamabad for years [without yet being] attached to an authentic professional and personal profile”: The Davis Case: a Glorious Mess…

Fareed Zakaria points out that fears “over Egypt’s imagined future are drawing American eyes away from the actual problem in Egypt: military dictatorship”: Egypt’s Real Parallel to Iran’s Revolution (Washington Post) Muslim Brotherhood (MB) spokesman  says, “We have good feelings towards the Western countries. What I’m searching for is better feelings from the Western countries,”…

“The military began to step in between the two sides Thursday morning. But it was absent during hours of fighting with rocks, sticks, and Molotov cocktails Wednesday night” with a Western journalist among the targets of the pro-Murabak counter-demonstrators: Egypt Street Battles: How Cairo’s Tahrir Square Turned into a War Zone Overnight (Christian Science Monitor)…

Can what is splitting Egypt unite Yemen? Clashes Between Pro- and Anti-Government Demonstrators Escalate Sharply in Cairo (abcNews) Yemen’s Saleh Agrees Not to Run Again. Is that Good Enough for Protesters? (Christian Science Monitor) Yemen President Signals Won’t Stay Beyond 2013 (Reuters) Can the current monarch match his father’s skill at responding to discontent without…