No statement here, no comment that was made here, was going to, I think, bring the fundamental change that people were looking for in Egypt.
For in Egypt, it was the moral force of nonviolence -- not terrorism, not mindless killing -- but nonviolence, moral force that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.
In between, the President issued a strong call for democracy in Egypt that came as close as he has yet come to asking for Mubarak to step down and seemed to take as an assumption that he would.
Mubarak's departure was a strategic victory for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and for its sister branch Hamas in Gaza.
The Internet has been a powerful force for protesters in Egypt, and one that the authorities have tried and failed to control.
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The climate here is similar to that shown by the tables for Aswan in Egypt or Biskra and In Salah in Algeria.
Lithuania is chairing the Community of Democracies, and we participated in a Ministerial meeting to signal support for emerging democracies in Egypt and Tunisia, show solidarity with the people of Libya, and also focus on democratic challenges within Europe, especially the deteriorating situation in Belarus.
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Orange, which has a mobile customer base in AMEA of nearly 80 million customers, has continued to see its smartphone user base in AMEA increasing, for example the demand for Android devices in Egypt has doubled in H2 2012.
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In part 2, Cynthia examines the real struggle for Presidential power in Egypt between the leader of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, and intelligence chief and, under Mubarak, former Egyptian Vice President, Omar Suleiman.
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Well, perhaps you say, just because we are recognizing that the Muslim Brotherhood is likely to be a big player (read, the winner) in the elections currently scheduled for later this year in Egypt does not mean we are going to facilitate their aspirations in this country.
It opened the door for Soviet influence in Egypt and throughout the Middle East.
This is a formula for mass repression in Egypt, war in the Mideast and increased jihadist terror elsewhere.
We believe, for instance, in Egypt these were very indigenous forces that -- Egyptian people who were demanding change.
This coincided with large demonstrations calling for political reform in Egypt.
The Lifestyle Club's 35 employees have already satisfied requests such as a New Year's Eve helicopter excursion to behold the Northern Lights in Iceland, and a tented dinner party for 100 in Giza, Egypt.
Whenever this burgeoning religious observance began, it's now visible across the Muslim world in the increasing number of women in the street wearing head scarves, the number of Islamist parties that have made electoral gains in recent years (in Morocco and Egypt for instance), and now, in an increasing appetite for Sharia finance.
Even more troubling for Israel, Field-Marshal Muhammad Tantawi, Egypt's top man for the time being, and others in Egypt's interim military government were unavailable to take calls from Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, until Barack Obama intervened directly with them.
Then in the 1970s and 1980s Islamic terrorist groups (Al Jihad and Gamaa Islamiya in Egypt, Front for National Salvation (FIS) in Algeria etc.) began appearing in the Middle East and South Asia, especially after the beginning of the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
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But Twitter has also been a crucial tool for revolutionaries in Iran, Egypt and elsewhere.
Human rights activists have criticised the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum for holding the meeting in Egypt.
Today, Field Marshal Tantawi took steps to lift the state of emergency that has existed in Egypt for several decades.
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The Palestinian leader is due back in Egypt for talks next week.
Cynthia's next installment recounts the now dimly remembered democratic society that prevailed in Egypt for decades before Gamal Abdel Nasser's coup in 1952.
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The findings could have ramifications for the ongoing unrest in Egypt.
Buck, a graduate student then working on a photography project in Egypt for his master's thesis, met Maree, a 23-year-old Egyptian veterinary student, in Mahalla.
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But the Brotherhood, although legally banned in Egypt for decades and living in a shadow world politically, was nonetheless a major factor in what happened next.
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The legitimate grievances that have festered for quite some time in Egypt have to be addressed by the Egyptian government immediately, and violence is not the response.
Washington bureaucracy delayed funds for some democracy activists in Egypt.
As a Western woman who worked in Egypt for years and continues to travel to the region, I am not optimistic about the rights of women in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
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