Immediately after polls close, Muslim Brotherhood starts presenting its own...
Polls in Egypt finally closed at 10 pm Cairo Time. Within a half hour, the Muslim Brotherhood was laying down the gauntlet on its @ikhwanweb twitter feed–sending out a string of real time results from...
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At times like this, we pay tribute to the dedicated geeks out there in the twitterverse. Today’s hero is the apparently slightly obsessive @iyad_albaghdadi who is putting together a wonderful running...
View ArticlePresident Moursi?
Just before dawn Cairo time, supporters of Mohammed Moursi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate erupted in joyous, often tearful celebrations. A steady trickle of early results from around the country...
View ArticleMeanwhile SCAF drops the other constitutional shoe….
The votes were still being counted early this morning when the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces made a major move to enshrine it’s own power, influence and independence. A set of amendments to its...
View ArticleRevolution, the New Chapter
That’s the conclusion of blogger and activist Mahmoud “Sandmonkey” Salem. In a long post, Salem concludes that whatever started on January 25, 2011 has come to an end today. “All of us had those goals...
View ArticleMB Victory Party Premature?
Muslim Brotherhood folks are already celebrating in Tahrir Square. But Issandr al Amrani over at the Arabist warns them to keep the corks in those sparkling grape juice bottles. “One real possibility...
View ArticleThe SCAF Press Conference in Tweets
At morale affairs for scaf presser, they are being super nice with journos, as they usually are after they think they’ve been naughty — Samer Al-Atrush(@SameralAtrush) June 18, 2012 So it just...
View ArticleMonday Evening Egypt Links
*Thanassis Cambanis, who’s writing a book about post-revolutionary Egypt, asks: “Is Anyone ready to actually lead Egypt?” Cambanis, a former Boston Globe correspondent, concludes: “The Muslim...
View ArticleThe Looming Parliament Battle
Somewhat lost amid the vote counting and back-and-forth victory claims and allegations is the fact that there’s a potentially very messy confrontation coming–probably this week- regarding the fate of...
View ArticleIn Conclusion: Egypt Waits For Its Dancing Ewoks Scene
To wrap up our coverage for three exhausting days of Egypt’s transition into…something, we offer a bit of self indulgent video. Here’s a video interview of me, shot yesterday while I was doing this...
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