Month: June 2012

  • News and Analysis (6/6/12)

    “We are not thinking of Islamic banks. Islamic banks are cosmetics of conventional banking. We are speaking of Islamic private equity funds, Islamic infrastructure funds, Islamic agriculture funds, Islamic venture capital funds.” — Amr Abou Zeid, adviser to the Nahda program, the MB’s plan to move Egypt’s chrony capitalism toward a free market: Egypt’s Brotherhood…

  • News and Analysis (6/4/12)

    Flights are diverted from the Tripoli airport in the latest manifestation of disorder from the NATO  intervention into Libya … Libyan Militia Takes Control of Tripoli Airport (AP / abc News) … while the legacy of the American invasion of Iraq is a greater al-Qaeda presence “at a sensitive time, with the country’s fractious Shi’ite,…

  • News and Analysis (6/1/12)

    “The expiration of the law means in theory that detainees held under its provisions should have been released by the end of the day on Thursday, [Heba] Morayef[, a Cairo-based researcher for Human Rights Watch] said,” but “her group had confirmed that at least 188 people who were picked up under the emergency law remained…

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