The unofficial Al Ahram count gave Morsi 25% of the vote with results in from all 27 provinces, with Shafik close behind with 24% of the vote.
Baghdad should understand that sympathy for the Iraqi people does not mean that their leadership is liked, or that other Arabs will fight America on its behalf, scolds Cairo's official daily, Al Ahram.
Al Ahram's count put Abdelmonen Abol Fotoh, a moderate Islamist running as an independent, and Amre Moussa, who previously served as foreign minister and headed the Arab League, in fourth and fifth places, respectively.
Since 2003, when Gomaa was appointed Grand Mufti, a top religious post in Egypt, he has become a highly promoted champion of moderate Islam, with his own television show and occasional columns in Al Ahram, a government daily.
Collecting interest is forbidden by the Koran, but "the idea of being an entrepreneur and taking money and turning it around for profit is deeply rooted in the religion, " says Ahmed Zayat, the CEO of Al Ahram Beverages in Cairo.
In a 2004 interview with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, the sheik ordered those who strayed from Islam to be put to death.
Ismail Ibrahim in the state-owned Al-Ahram al-Masai satirises the opposition which is calling for the new constitution to be abolished after the majority of voters approved it.
In the official Al-Ahram newspaper, Muhammad Jamal Hishmat calls on Egyptians to focus on the coming period.
State-owned Al-Ahram 's editorial says people should be allowed to hold rallies without hindrance, but urges protesters to "remember Egypt" in doing so.
"We have real doubts about such conference, " said Dia Rashwan, an analyst at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo, Egypt.
The news also came as Morsy, according to state-run al-Ahram, was holding a meeting with his defense council over how to calm the unrest.
The readership of state-owned newspapers, such as the once-essential daily al-Ahram, is sinking fast in the face of racier offerings of a dozen independent tabloids.
On Saturday, the former leader was reportedly questioned over gifts worth millions of Egyptian pounds which he allegedly received from the country's flagship state newspaper, Al-Ahram.
Police closed all the main roads and highways near Tahrir Square, and vehicles were not allowed to stop or wait near the square, state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported.
Also Wednesday, a public prosecutor decided to send Hosni Mubarak -- who has spent the last few months detained in a military hospital -- back to prison, prosecutor spokesman Mahmoud Hefnawi told the state-run al-Ahram newspaper.
In an attempt to win over angry Arab public opinion, Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, wrote an article for last Sunday's edition of the pro-government Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, which is one of the region's most widely read.
Port Said could present "a new model for civilian-military relations in the comeback of the military to political life and Morsi surely will keep an eye on it, " said Galal Nasser, chief editor of Al-Ahram Weekly and a fellow at the Nasser Military Academy.
On the day the decree was published, state-run newspaper al-Ahram said that an internal report by a commission monitoring the performance of state-run radio and TV described the state TV stations' coverage as "non-professional", "confused", and "lost" as they waited for directives on how to cover the news.
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