News Coverage prepared for: The European Union delegation to Egypt

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1 News Coverage prepared for: The European Union delegation to Egypt Disclaimer: This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of authors of articles and under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of IPSOS or the European Union. 1

2 Thematic Headlines Domestic Scene American Tourists Released Egypt s Embassies Get Ready for Runoffs Three Scenarios for Mubarak s Trial Mursi does not Approve any Guarantees 38 Detainees Released SCAF Shoulders the Responsibility of Security An Islamic Preacher, Ala Abd al-fattah and his Brother Incited the Arson Al-Katatni Heads the Freedom and Justice Qaradawi Calls on People to Take Shafiq s Money and Vote for Mursi Shafiq s Slogan: The Citizen is the Solution Qena Tribes, Copts and NDP Advocates Support Shafiq 38 Suspects Released Muslim Brotherhood Corruption Al-Tahrir Updates on Presidential Elections 10 Parties Criticize the Muslim Brotherhood and Pressure to Form the Constituent Assembly before the Runoffs Abu al-futouh Demands to Mursi The Mass Demonstration Fails and the Remnants are Braver Police Officers Acquitted Negotiations to Release the American Tourists Copts Support to Shafiq Spreads Division in the Freedom and Justice Party NCHR Calls on People to Take part in the Runoffs Tribes in Sinai Support Mursi 2

3 Newspapers (1/06/2012) Pages: 1 Author: not mentioned American Tourists Released In collaboration with Bedouin leaders, the security and armed forces succeeded in releasing two American tourists who had been abducted in Nuwaibei. Unidentified elements had abducted the two Americans as a means of pressure to release one of their relatives who was arrested by the Egyptian authorities. Similar news was reported in al-akhbar, p. 3; Al-Dustour, p. 5 + The American Ambassador to Egypt Anne Paterson refused to comment on the incidents. 3

4 Pages: 3 Author: Khalid Abu al-izz and Suad Tantawi Egypt s Embassies Get Ready for Runoffs 586 thousand and 803 eligible Egyptian expatriate voters in 166 countries will cast ballots on Sunday, Jun 3, 2012 in the run-off round of the presidential elections. Electronic ballots will be available at midnight, Sunday morning, according to the local time of each of the countries, on the Website of the High Presidential Elections Commission. Similar news was reported in al-masry al-yom, p. 4 4

5 Pages: 1 Author: Isam Mileji Three Scenarios for Mubarak s Trial The sentencing hearing in the trial of Mubarak, his two sons, the former Minister of Interior Habinb al-adili and six of his assistants will be tomorrow. Three different scenarios are expected. The first scenario is issuing the final ruling, the second is postponing the pronouncing of the final ruling and the third is a retrial of the suspects. The third scenario will be in case of an unexpected handing in of the Egyptian businessman Hussein Salim. 5

6 Page: 1, 3, 4, 5 Author: Ahram reporters Mursi does not Approve any Guarantee Presidential Candidate Muhammad Mursi s campaign denied what was rumored about Mursi s approval of the guarantees included in the so-called Document of the Pledge suggested by the different political players as a condition to support him in the run-off round of the presidential elections. Mursi s campaign coordinator Yassir Ali said Mursi was considering the political players suggestions. Vice president of the Freedom and Justice Party Issam al-aryan described the demand to have Mursi sign certain guaranteeing documents as inappropriate. A number of political parties had suggested the so-called the Document of the Pledge on both presidential candidates Ahmad Shafiq and Muhammad Mursi. The document included guarantees of the freedom of expression and political freedom. Fierce competition is reported between the two candidates all over Egypt. Islamist trends tend to fully support Muhammad Mursi. Meanwhile, Ahmad Shafiq s advocates seem to be increasing in the different governorates, mainly in Upper Egyptian Minia and Qina and in Lower Egypt s Kafr al-shaikh and Marsa Matrouh. Downtown Qena witnessed regretful incidents on Wednesday when members of Bedouin communities shot fire in the air reacting to a number of Salafist and revolutionary activists who had organized demonstrations protesting the closed meeting held by Ahmad Shafiq s advocates. Three demonstrators were injured. The attendees of the closed meeting warned of the perils of the Muslim Brotherhood if they ruled. Meanwhile prominent Coptic figures in Qina declared their support to Ahmad Shafiq to avoid persecution under the Muslim Brotherhood s rule. 6

7 In a related context, Coordinator of the Free Egyptians Party declared his fellow party members support for Shafiq in the run-off round of the presidential elections as a support for the civil state. Alexandria tribes did not agree on whom to support. While 15 tribes declared their support for Muhammad Mursi, Coordinator of the Tribes Coalition declared supporting Ahmad Shafiq as an alternative of Amr Mussa whom they supported in the first round. 7

8 Pages: 1 Author: not mentioned 38 Detainees Released The Military Court released 38 of the suspects who were detained during the Abasiyah incidents while 25 others will stay in jail. Other suspects are still waiting to be tried. In another context, the Military Court postponed the hearing session on Maspero incidents to Thursday. Similar news was reported in al-yom al-sabei, p. 3 8

9 Pages: 1, 7 Author: Yusri al-badri and others SCAF Shoulders the Responsibility of Security The emergency law was completely lifted yesterday. There were doubts that SCAF would extend it. However, SCAF declared that the security was its responsibility until the handing over of power to an elected president. 9

10 Pages: 5 Author: Ahmad Abd al-latif An Islamic Preacher, Ala Abd al-fattah and his Brother Incited the Arson Investigations into the arson at Ahmad Shafiq s campaign headquarters proved the involvement of an Islamic preacher, political activist Alaa Abd al-fattah and his brother and blogger Waels Abbas. Al-Masry al-yom published the detailed persecution report. Similar news was reported in al-yom al-sabei, p. 3 10

11 Pages: 3 Author: Tariq Salah Al-Katatni Heads the Freedom and Justice Close sources to the Muslim Brotherhood reported to al-masry al-yom a tendency in the group to assign Saad al-katatni as head of the Freedom and Justice Party instead of Muhammad Mursi in case the latter won the presidential race. The sources reported on al-katatni s intention to give up the People s Assembly Speaker s position. There is also chance for Issam al-aryan to head the party. 11

12 Pages: 4 Author: Ghada Muhammad al-sharif Qaradawi Calls on People to Take Shafiq s Money and Vote for Mursi Sheik Yusuf al-qaradawi, head of the World Union for Muslim Scholars called on poor Egyptians to take money and aids from candidate Ahmad Shafiq s campaign and vote for Muhammad Mursi in the run-off round of the presidential elections.. 12

13 Pages: 3 Author: Mahmoud Ramzi Shafiq s Slogan: The Citizen is the Solution Presidential Candidate Ahmad Shafiq will run the run-off round with the slogan the citizen is the solution. Shafiq s slogan in the first round was Acts not words. Muslim Brotherhood s leader Subhi Salih criticized the slogan as an unsuccessful imitation of their slogan Islam in the solution. 13

14 Pages: 5 Author: Muhammad Hamdi and others Qena Tribes, Copts and NDP Advocates Support Shafiq Qena tribes coalition, Copts and advocates and members of the dissolved National Democratic Party declared supporting Ahamd Shasfiq in the run-off round of the presidential elections. Clashes took place between a number of Shafiq s advocates and demonstrators who demonstrated to protest Shafiq s candidacy. 14

15 Page: 3 Author: not mentioned 38 Suspects Released The Military Court released 38 suspects who were jailed pending further investigations into the Port Said incidents that took place last February in a football match. 25 suspects are however still in jail. The same court postponed the hearing session in Maspero incidents to June 7. 15

16 Page: 1, 4 Author: Sharif al-jundi Muslim Brotherhood Corruption Al-Dustour polished documents that proved the vice General Guide s involvement in corruption during the mandate of Husni Mubarak. The vice General Guide Rashad al-bayyoumi got plots of the state owned land for 39 thousand and 522 Egyptian Pounds and sold it for five million. Al-Bayyoumi also violated the contract and built a mall, a hotel and a gas station on the plot of land. 16

17 Pages: 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 Author: many authors Al-Tahrir Updates on Presidential Elections Apart from Mubarak s trial, al-tahrir focused on the updates of the presidential race. The Muslim Brotherhood s Freedom and Justice Party expressed content at the meeting between its candidate Muhammad Mursi and Abd al-munim Abu al-futouh. The Freedom and Justice Party declared that Abu al-futouh had promised to back Mursi in the run-off round of the presidential elections. Sheik Yusuf al-qaradawi called on voters to vote for Mursi, stating that the elections were to choose between the revolution and its enemies. He also said that the Muslim Brotherhood s candidate was more worthy of Copts support than Ahmad Shafiq. Al-Tahrir s Hani Yassin reported on the Jihadi groups leadership support of Mursi. The Azhar denied what was published in al-liwa al-islami newspaper about an Azharian Sheik Nasr Wassil s fatwa that considers voting for Ahamd Shafiq to be haram [prohibited by the Islamic law]. 17

18 Al-Tahrir also referred to the revival of the NDP through the increasing number of Shafiq s advocates. Pages: 1 Author: Safaa Issam al-din and Rania Rabei 10 Parties Criticize the Muslim Brotherhood and Pressure to Form the Constituent Assembly before the Runoffs 10 political parties and coalitions criticized the Freedom and Justice Party for postponing a meeting that was scheduled with political parties to discuss the Constituent Assembly issue. The political players denounced the Freedom and Justice Party s reluctance in discussing the Constituent Assembly, accusing the party of not willing to form the assembly before the run-off round of the presidential elections. The parties are the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, the Socialist popular Alliance Party, the Free Egyptians Party, al-karamah Party, Ghad al-thawarah [the Revolution Future] 18

19 Party, the Democratic Front, al-adl Party and al-tegammu Party in addition to a number of public figures and political activists. Similar news was reported in al-yom al-sabei, p. 3 Pages: 1 Author: Muhammad Khayyal and Duha al-jundi Abu al-futouh Demands to Mursi Presidential candidate Muhammad Mursi did not attend a meeting that was scheduled with Abd al-munim Abu al-futouh. Mursi did not attend the meeting and did not apologize or cancel it. Abd al-munim Abu al-futouh, who came fourth in the first round of the presidential elections, had four demands to Mursi. The first demand was a coalition government headed by a national figure that does not belong to the parliamentary majority. The second demand was two vice presidents who have definite authorities. The third demand was a prominent national figure to head the Constituent Assembly that will be responsible for drafting the constitution. The fourth demand was to assign technocrat ministers. Similar news was reported in al-akhbar, p. 7 19

20 Pages: 1 Author: not mentioned The Mass Demonstration Fails and the Remnants are Braver Presidential Candidate Ahmad Shafiq s popularity is remarkably increasing. Ahmad Shafiq is one of the figures of the former regime. However, his victory in the first round of the presidential elections encouraged the advocates of the dissolved NDP and revived their hopes. Meanwhile, protesters against the former regime and its figures called for a mass demonstration today to call for excluding Ahmad Shafiq from the presidential race. Many political parties, coalitions and players will not take part in the demonstration for its unclear goals. Other players said they would not participate because they were not invited. The Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood demanded the officials of their offices in the governorate where Muslim Brotherhood s candidate Muhammad Mursi did not lead to resign. Muslim Brotherhood sources told al-shurouk that the group s Shura Council decided to prevent particular members who usually have controversial stances and opinions from 20

21 appearing in the media in order not to create a public uproar against the group before the runoff round. Pages: 1 Author: Mustafa Eid and Muhammad Jumaa Police Officers Acquitted Cairo Criminal Court acquitted yesterday three police officers who were facing charges of killing three demonstrators and injuring seven others in front of the Amiriyah police station on the so-called the Anger Friday on January 28, The ruling triggered a state of devastation amongst the victims families. Similar news was reported in al-yom al-sabei, p. 1 21

22 Pages: 3 Author: Hamadah al-shawadifi Negotiations to Release the American Tourists Governor of South Sinai Khalid Foudah said negotiations were taking place to release two American tourists who were abducted the day before yesterday in Nuwaibei. Bedouin tribes leaders intervened to release the abducted. The abduction took place a day after the arrest of one of the biggest drugs dealers in Sinai. 22

23 Pages: 1, 5 Author: not mentioned Copts Support to Shafiq Spreads Division in the Freedom and Justice Party Secretary General of the High Presidential Elections Commission Hatim Bagato declared that the voters lists were not changed and that the only change was by barring the names of voters who do not have the right to vote. Dr. Nagui Najib Mikhail, member of the Supreme Body of the Freedom and Justice Party stated that a number of the Coptic members of the party tended to vote for Ahmad Shafiq while others tended to vote for Mursi. In the frame of his electoral campaign, candidate Ahmad Shafiq held closed meetings with prominent social and public figures from the different governorates. On the other hand, leaders of the Revolution Youth Coalition denied rumors about meetings with Shafiq. 23

24 Pages: 7 Author: Husam Salih NCHR Calls on People to Take part in the Runoffs The National Council for Human Rights declared that the first round of the presidential elections did not witness serious violations. NCHR called on all Egyptians to participate in the run-off round of the presidential elections as a step to participate in determining Egypt s future. NCHR also declared that the presidential elections this year were the first in Egypt s history where people do not know the winner in advance. 24

25 Pages: 7 Author: Husam Salih Tribes in Sinai Support Mursi Tribes leaders in South Sinai and Suez declared their support to Muhammad Mursi in the runoffs. Tribes leaders urged all their fellows to participate in the runoffs. 25

26 TV Coverage (31/5/2012) Channel: al-hayah Program: al-hayah al-yom Presenter: Lubna Assal Following the complete lifting of the emergency law, SCAF shoulders the responsibility of the country s security. The Ministry of Justice uncovers a plan to secure the court during the trial of Mubarak and other figures of the former regime. Channel: CH 1 Program: Sabah al-khair ya Masr The Parliament committees discuss hot issues in Sunday session. Following an unprecedented Shiite activity in Cairo, Islamist players call on the Azhar and SCAF to face the dissimilation of the Shiite beliefs. Channel: CH 1 Program: Egypt news The Sentencing hearing session will be held on Saturday in the trial of the figures of the former regime who face charges of killing demonstrators. Expatriate Egyptians start voting in the run-off round on Sunday. Channel: CH 2 26

27 Program: Egypt news Presidential Electoral Campaigns continue. Calls for demonstrations in Tahrir Square asking for the enforcement of the political isolation law. Radio Coverage (31/5/2012) News Channel: Radio Masr The Emergency Law is completely lifted and SCAF shoulders the responsibility of protecting the citizens until the power is handed over to an elected president. (25:00:00) The Ministry of Health secures the mass demonstration that will be organized on Friday under the slogan no for remnants. News Channel: Al-Shark Al-Awsat The Ministry of Justice draws a strict plan to secure the court session during the trial of Mubarak and figures of his regime. The sentencing hearing session in Mubarak and figures his regime s trial will be held on Saturday. 27

28 Internet Coverage (1/6/2012) Facebook We are all Khaled Saeed A copy of the complaint filed by MP Essam Sultan against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq. The land given to Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, as illustrated in the drawing, is bigger and better than other lands allocated to the sons of pilots. According to Sulta, Shafiq was truly not the chairman of the association when the lands were allocated to the Mubarak sons but he was the association s fund secretary at the time! &type=1 Yaay! This pilot must be a pro-revolution one. He refused to wait for the US ambassador who was late for the flight and decided to take off without her. Marches and protests all over Egypt calling for applying the political isolation law on Ahmed Shafiq and excluding him from the presidential elections. Hundreds gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the same, just one day before the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. Anyone who was born after December 22, 1962, this is their first day without the state of emergency. More than 130,000 Egyptians have signed the national consensus document. They are waiting now for the official response of runoff candidate Mohamed Morsi on the document. The Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide office appoints Khayrat el-shater as the group s spokesman. 28

29 &type=1 The Muslim Brotherhood: Major Victory for Muslim Brotherhood Academics List in Teachers Syndicate Elections The committee supervising the elections of the teachers' union in Egypt has announced the victory of Dr. Ahmed Halawani, Brotherhood leader and the Change and Reform list s candidate for the position of teachers union chief. The committee also announced victory for the Change and Reform list, which included many candidates from different leanings and currents for the Syndicate s board of directors. The list s winning candidates included two Christians: Aziz Munir Aziz Awad and Makram Adly Abulyamin Matta. It also included 4 women: Fatima Yahya Mohamed Ahmed, Taghrid Mohamed Taha, Hind Ismail Imbabi and Jihad Nabil Mohamed. The list of winners also included Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel-Rahman, the Muslim Brotherhood s official responsible for teachers affairs. One member of the Brotherhood s list of academics nominated in the elections, Ahmed Ghanim Mohamed Ibrahim, did not win his contested seat. In all, 39 of a total 40 members of the list won, in addition to the Chairman. These great results are achieved despite the fierce and relentless smear campaign conducted by the media against the Muslim Brotherhood, broadcasting all kinds of rumors and lies in a desperate attempt to undermine the popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood. Rantings of a Sandmonkey: Don t Blame the Copts! Ever since the run-off elections started, with the candidates being Morsy and Shafiq, and a dangerous new rhetoric started rising within the ranks of the revolutionaries with one clear theme: The Christian Coptic Population have betrayed the revolution. 29

30 Why? Well, because the supreme majority (One would estimate about 85%) of the Christian voter base went to Ahmed Shafiq, with the remaining 15% dispersed over various revolutionary candidates like Amr Moussa and Hamdeen Sabahy (There are rumors that some Copts have voted for AbulFotouh, but none could be found to verify this), thus providing Shafiq with the necessary votes to reach the run-off elections. The Blame Game started immediately, and despite revolutionary infighting between the supporters of various revolutionary candidates that never quite made it, they all seem to agree on one point: The Copts ( also insert: The Church) have screwed the revolution over with their voting choice. It goes without saying that this rhetoric is very immature and dangerous for the Coptic population, and will lead to further polarization amidst the revolutionary ranks, and that they are better suited to finding out why that happened and try to court that vote, instead of entrenching that belief further. In reality, their choice of vote, while unfortunate, is very logical and should not be blamed for it, and to paint them as traitors after being the population that suffered the most after this revolution is nothing short of latent sectarianism and ignoring the facts. Of all the different social segments of society, the Coptic Christians are the ones who have suffered the most due to the success of this revolution. Instead of having one of the primary and explicit goals of this revolution to be the end of sectarianism and social prejudice against the Copts, the revolutionaries seemed more intent on freeing all of the political prisoners during the Mubarak era, which included many people who were jailed for belonging to various islamist groups. While the supreme majority of those prisoners are not terrorists, many of them have committed, planned or engaged in terrorist acts, and almost all of them do not share feelings of goodwill towards the Egyptian Coptic population, since many of those terrorist acts were aimed at them during the 80 s and 90 s. The revolutionaries at the time supported the freeing of those prisoners due to: 1) Our seemingly unbending utopian belief that this population was radicalized due to the absence of peaceful political means for them to present their ideas, 2) Our desire to keep the islamists within our ranks, and this was extremely important to them, 3) Our Goal of having a new Egypt where equality for all Egyptians, and not just Christians, was the top priority. Completely sure of ourselves and our ways, we were completely oblivious to the simple fact that not even three months after the All Saints Church bombing in Alexandria, which was one of the principle drivers of this revolution, we actively lobbied for the release of thousands of people that have previously encouraged such acts or at the very least wouldn t necessarily sympathize with its victims, all the while the Egyptian police is nowhere to be found. Imagine their horror as they sat back watching this unfold, all the while being completely unable to publically protest out of fear of being accused of being anti- revolution or Human Rights. And then immediately after sectarian rhetoric and conflicts started: The Camilia Shehata case, the Atfeeh and mansheyet Nasser attack, the Imbaba Churches attacks, Abu Qurqas, etc.. All in all, the Christians had 6 of their churches attacked in 2011, which was unprecedently terrifying, naturally. 30

31 Instead of cursing the situation, and believing in the spirit of togetherness that Jan25 created, the Coptic Christians started to have a political activist wing, and started having their own protests to demand their rights of equality, safety and laws that allow them to practice their faith in full, and had their sit-in at Maspiro, expecting the revolution to rally around them. The revolutionaries, unfortunately, had other priorities, like dismantling the security apparatus, attempting to ban NDP officials from Political participation, and politically clashing with the SCAF over having their demands fulfilled and having the military trials stopped. So, we would go to the Maspiro sit-in for solidarity every now and then, but we wouldn t stay or give it our full attention, support and participation, telling ourselves that the revolution is working with the Christians demanding their rights and that we are better suited to fight the big political fight over the shape of the next government and state. Our hearts were with them, but we offered little else in terms of tangible support. All the while, attacks on them in the media and society intensified, and sectarian tension started rising again in Egypt, openly promoted by islamists and salafi leaders, without real condemnation of any kind. And then the Maspiro attacks happened. There is no point in re-hashing what happened in Maspiro and its aftermath, but needless to say no accountability was ever achieved and the non-christian Egyptian population kept its mouth shut. The revolutionaries naturally protested and demonstrated, but the general population all exhibited a case of eerie silence. The Army had killed Egyptian Christian civilians, and had its media incite violence against the Christians, and the country went into paralysis, unable to comprehend or face what just happened. This is the moment where Egypt s Copts felt most alone and abandoned: They abandoned their passivity, despite all the attacks and incitement continued protesting for their rights and against the injustices placed on them, and they got run over by tanks, and we did nothing. And then the parliamentary elections took place, where the islamists used every sectarian card they had in their pockets, and ended up winning more than 70% of the seats of the parliament, and calling for legislations based on Islamic Sharia immediately. In the hearts and minds of the average Christian in Egypt, the belief that this revolution was turning into an islamist revolution, and that the secularist revolutionaries could do nothing to stop it, was finally cemented. As time went by, and as the hope for an inclusive and not Islamist dominated constitution started to vaporize, many of the Copts started viewing the notion of stopping the islmaist camp from reaching the presidency became the top priority. Searching for viable candidates, they were presented with the following pool: the Ex-MB NourParty backed AbulFotouh, The head of the party that went into a parliamentary alliance with the MB during the parliamentary elections Hamdeen Sabahy, the wishy-washy politician that is Amr Moussa, and the ex-regime revolutionary enemy #1 Ahmed Shafiq, who was firmly opposed to the MB and the Islamist, and represented the promise of the return of the Mubarak days, where Islamists were not one election away from taking over the country, possibly forever, but rather were kept under control by state security. Fully aware that the previous regime discriminated 31

32 against them and allowed the random attack against them every now and then, many in the Coptic ranks did the math, compared having maximum one attack per year and retaining almost equal rights to having 6 of their churches attacked in one year and the possibility of losing their rights forever, and came up with supporting Shafiq as the natural conclusion. Many of them didn t, and voted for Sabahy and Moussa for the revolution s sake, but the supreme majority, literally terrified about prospects of their survival, made that compromise and supported Shafiq. Now, instead of figuring out what lead to this, or even attempting to understand it, the revolutionaries, once again, forgot what Copts feel and fear, openly blamed them for Shafiq s ascension, and some of them started urging people to vote for the MB candidate Morsy so that Shafiq doesn t win. Never mind that more Muslims voted for Shafiq than Christians, never mind that having Morsy in power would ensure that the Muslim Brotherhood would have full control of the legislative and executive, and will be able to write whatever they wish for in the rights and liberties section in the constitution or legislation in parliament, never mind that not a single revolutionary candidate showed a clear stance for secularism or anti-islamism that would ve courted their votes. Nope, Shafiq being in the run-off is the Copts fault. They have betrayed the revolution. Full stop. No discussion. Well, I disagree. Blaming the Coptic Christians for Shafiq is like blaming SCAF for Hijacking the revolution, both is attempts to deflect personal responsibility and deny the simple truth that had the revolutionaries united behind one leader or presidential candidate, they would ve easily won this election and been in the run-off already, with the Coptic vote firmly behind them. But no, it s not our fault that we chose shitty candidates and ignored their plight for over a year, it s their fault for picking the least of all evils to them. They are not under any illusions over their choice, but when you have been facing rising and mounting hostility and danger from day one of this revolution, when you seem to be the one always paying the heaviest price, when you are a Coptic Christian, and hear about the verdict to release all Muslims suspects in the Abu Qurqas clashes and giving all Christian suspects life sentences not even a week ago, it s easy for you to understand why they voted the way they did. Many revolutionaries may feel that the Coptic Christians have abandoned the revolution with their choice, but the uncomfortable truth may be that the revolutionaries abandoned the Coptic Christians a long time ago, and are paying the price for it now. Wael Abbas: Twitter I will be interviewed on this show today at 4:30pm. 32

33 Witness says preacher Safwat Hegazy and blogger Wael Abbas involved in burning premises of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq Scandal: Presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi could be holding a dual American nationality. If he worked for NASA, he must be an American national or he would not be allowed to work there!!! NASA s website: Employment with NASA is restricted to citizens of the United States of America. If Morsi have worked for NASA, he must be American!!! Until now, I was not officially summoned by the general prosecutor to testify on the accusations of taking part in burning down Shafiq s HQ. Iyad elbaghdadi: #Assad's "professional army" tank sees dead body, and swerves to run it over #Syria Are you against foreign intervention in #Syria? Great, let's hear you denounce Russian & Iranian intervention then. Wondering aloud: When #Egypt's MB implements the so-called "Turkish model", who will play the role of the Kurds? One thing I took away from Fisk's speech in Sharjah was this: #Turkey is a rapidly changing country. Infographic: Which European nation is perceived to be hardest working? Laziest? Most or least corrupt? Anti-#Shafik flashmob in #Egypt mall: While #Iran & Hezbollah commemorates Khomeini, let's remember the 30,000 who died by his fatwas. Gsquare86: US debt at $15.77 trillion. Past 100% of GDP again. Anyone scared? #NewTwitterRules unfollowing doesn't mean end of personal friendship (although it may) it just means I don't want to read your words 33

34 Death to Mubarak for our martyrs For our martyrs, death to Mubarak My updated set on Street Art of #Egypt #Graffiti #Photography Mubarak stretching his back like a mother f*****, why do I feel like the bastard knows his faith already #MubarakTrial Arabist: Egypt Elections: Setback for the Transition - Carnegie: Marina Ottawy: results are "devastating" New on Arabist: Counterterrorism Calculus in Yemen Shortchanging Political Solutions A Nation Polarized: What's Next for Egypt? - Al-Monitor: Publication overview Al-Ahram: Egyptian state-run official daily newspaper Founded in 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-waqa'i`al-masriya (English: The Egyptian Events, founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government. Al-Akhbar: Egyptian state-owned semi-official daily newspaper It was founded in May 1952 as a part of Akhbar El Yom. Al-Gomhoria: Egyptian state-owned daily newspaper An influential state-owned Egyptian Arabic language daily newspaper. It was established in Al-Shorouk: Egyptian daily independent newspaper Are a prominent Arabic newspaper published in Egypt [1] and several other Arabic nations It is a daily independent newspaper, covering mainly politics, militant affairs and sport. 34

35 Al-Masry al-yom: Independent daily newspaper On 7 June 2004, it published its first edition. The paper initially circulated primarily amongst Cairo s intellectual elite, providing objective news coverage in the belief that good news would beat sensationalist reporting found in other Egyptian print media. After 3 years, it was challenging Al-Ahram for the status of being the national paper of record. Though Tahrir: Daily independent newspaper Dostor: Daily independent newspaper Yom 7: Daily independent newspaper Table of Content: Newspapers Al Ahram Newspaper American Tourists Released 3 Egypt s Embassies Get Ready for Runoffs....4 Three Scenarios for Mubarak s Trial..5 Mursi does not Approve any Guarantees Detainees Released..7 Al masry al youm Newspaper SCAF Shoulders the Responsibility of Security. 8 35

36 An Islamic Preacher, Ala Abd al-fattah and his Brother Incited the Arson...9 Al-Katatni Heads the Freedom and Justice. 10 Qaradawi Calls on People to Take Shafiq s Money and Vote for Mursi 11 Shafiq s Slogan: The Citizen is the Solution Qena Tribes, Copts and NDP Advocates Support Shafiq. 13 AL Gomhoria newspaper 38 Suspects Released..14 Al dostour Newspaper Muslim Brotherhood Corruption Al Tahrir Newspaper Al-Tahrir Updates on Presidential Elections.16 Al Sherouk Newspaper.. 10 Parties Criticize the Muslim Brotherhood and Pressure to Form the Constituent Assembly before the Runoffs..17 Abu al-futouh Demands to Mursi.18 The Mass Demonstration Fails and the Remnants are Braver...19 Police Officers Acquitted 20 Negotiations to Release the American Tourists.21 Al youm al 7 newspaper Copts Support to Shafiq Spreads Division in the Freedom and Justice Party..22 Al Akhbar Newspaper NCHR Calls on People to Take part in the Runoffs.23 Tribes in Sinai Support Mursi.. 24 TV Coverage Al-Hayat CBC.. 27 Channel Channel Radio Coverage Radio Masr..29 Al-Shark Al-Awsat Mega fm 29 Internet coverage Facebook Muslim brotherhood...33 Twitter 36