Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with egypt www.salem-news.com 2013 Egypt walked out of global nuclear talks in protest over failure to implement a 1995 resolution for a Middle East as a zone free of nuclear weapons. Egypt's foreign ministry ended its participation out of frustration that the zone has yet to be created. http://salem-news.com/articles/april292013/nuclear-talks-israel.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april292013/nuclear-talks-israel.php Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:22:00 PDT The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today expressed concern about the Egyptian government’s continued application of blasphemy-like charges. The government has used this charge to stifle dissent and limit the freedoms of religion and expression. http://salem-news.com/articles/april052013/egypt-christians.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april052013/egypt-christians.php Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:06:00 PDT Moderates, secularists, and Christians recently demonstrated in mass at Tahrir Square. They even besieged the presidential palace—is all too familiar. http://salem-news.com/articles/january072013/egypt-sudan-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january072013/egypt-sudan-ae.php Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:17:00 PST Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile and set out to destroy the secular opposition forces. These included the Communist Party of Iran, which had been instrumental in bringing down the shah. http://salem-news.com/articles/december182012/new-pharaoh-ch.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december182012/new-pharaoh-ch.php Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:01:00 PST The Egyptian Constituent Assembly on November 30 approved a draft constitution that includes problematic provisions limiting freedom of religion or belief for all Egyptians. “The constitution was drafted without a balanced representation of all the Egyptian constituencies; as a result the religious freedom provisions of the draft constitution are deeply flawed. http://salem-news.com/articles/december072012/uscirf-egypt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december072012/uscirf-egypt.php Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:31:00 PST The Council on American-Islamic Relations, today repudiated death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court for charges linked to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" that attacked the Prophet Muhammad. An Egyptian court reportedly found the defendants, most of whom live in the US, guilty of harming national unity... http://salem-news.com/articles/november282012/cair-islam-film.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november282012/cair-islam-film.php Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:31:00 PST A couple of days ago I was able to watch the Aljazeera documentary titled “Struggle over the Nile.” My first attraction to the documentary stemmed from the fact that I am a denizen of Ethiopia from where flows, according to the documentary itself, 85 percent of the water that sustains the land of the Pharaoh’s. http://salem-news.com/articles/october182012/kiflu-assaita.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october182012/kiflu-assaita.php Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:40:00 PDT While the world was not even watching and shortly after the Tunisian uprising ended, swiftly and quite unexpectedly actually, with the ousting of President Zin Elabdine Ben Ali, too many conspiracy theories began to hatch up all over the cyber space claiming that the Tunisian revolution has been choreographed by foreign/western powers and pulled off by secret agencies. http://salem-news.com/articles/october122012/syria-revolution-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october122012/syria-revolution-ae.php Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:18:00 PDT Anwar el-Sadat the former Egyptian president (1970-1981) launched a daring military war against Israel to liberate the occupied land of the Sinai Peninsula in 1973. His military commanders and valiant soldiers made an astonishing crossing of the Suez Canal and took over the impregnable Bar Lev line... http://salem-news.com/articles/october062012/arab-israeli-war-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october062012/arab-israeli-war-ae.php Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:39:00 PDT There is a worldwide consensus that the now-notorious video clips of the anti-Islam film “innocence of Muslims” are extremely offensive, provocative and clumsily amateurish. But at the same time there is almost a similar consensus that doesn’t consider the violent and demagogic Muslim reaction any less offensive and provocative. http://salem-news.com/articles/september302012/coptic-film-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september302012/coptic-film-ae.php Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:40:00 PDT On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, the American ambassador to Libya got killed; the Benghazi consulate set ablaze and moreover, the Al-Qaeda flag waved over the premises of the US embassy in Cairo. This, as thousands of Muslims were outraged by a film, written and directed and financed by Israeli Jews, they say insulted their prophet. http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/muslim-outrage-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/muslim-outrage-ae.php Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:09:00 PDT Holding of the 16th summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran is one of the biggest international events which Iran has hosted following the Islamic Revolution and is a good opportunity to promote Iran’s diplomatic might and reduce regional tensions. Iran has, therefore, set its eyes on further expansion of cooperation among member states. http://salem-news.com/articles/august312012/morsi-tehran-da.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august312012/morsi-tehran-da.php Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:44:00 PDT The relationship with gods/god has always been one of man’s oldest preoccupations, and still is till this very day. And while it’s fair to assume that Modern day man owes his advancement in philosophy and science to ancient Greece and its earliest thinkers, it’s equally fair to give credence to the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. http://salem-news.com/articles/august192012/defaced-monotheism-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august192012/defaced-monotheism-ae.php Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:12:00 PDT Refugees fleeing strife and death in the Sinai are increasingly falling victim to human traffickers. http://salem-news.com/articles/august152012/israel-traffickers-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august152012/israel-traffickers-wg.php Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:52:00 PDT Every time I step into an elevator, I keep my fingers crossed till I reach my floor safely. I am not claustrophobic. I am just worried that a sudden power cut, which are frequent nowadays in Egypt, will leave me trapped inside a metal box for endless hours. http://salem-news.com/articles/august082012/gaza-israel-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august082012/gaza-israel-ae.php Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:08:00 PDT Israeli TV has lately screened one of a new series of ads, sponsored by The Temple Institute, which promote the so called “rebuilding of the temple mount. The video titled ‘The Children are Ready’ is causing a lot of controversy amongst Egyptians, especially users of Twitter, facebook and YouTube who saw the video as an insult to their president. http://salem-news.com/articles/july242012/egypt-ridiculed-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july242012/egypt-ridiculed-ae.php Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:58:00 PDT The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom issued an open letter to Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, citing serious issues pertaining to the plight of religious minorities in Egypt. http://salem-news.com/articles/july212012/uscrif-egypt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july212012/uscrif-egypt.php Sat, 21 Jul 2012 17:48:00 PDT The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts. It is an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American puppet state in the geographically largest country on earth, the one country with a nuclear arsenal sufficient to deter Washington’s aggression. http://salem-news.com/articles/july212012/war-all-fronts-pcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july212012/war-all-fronts-pcr.php Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:44:00 PDT August 1 is approaching, and once again the argument over "sharing the burden" is taking center stage. Granting exemptions from military service and the implications for integrating those exempted into the workforce is a very weighty issue. http://salem-news.com/articles/july192012/israel-draft.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july192012/israel-draft.php Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:41:00 PDT Protesters say the U.S. administration has failed to curb down the post-Mubarak Islamist tide. They believe the US decided to use the Muslim Brotherhood to discipline Hamas and possibly to make the group come to terms with Israel. http://salem-news.com/articles/july162012/clinton-cairo--ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july162012/clinton-cairo--ae.php Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:46:00 PDT The announcement, today, by the ruling military of Egypt offers a HOLLOW VICTORY for Mohamed Morsi and Brotherhood in EGYPT. There is very little chance that the actual ruling military will allow Morsi to appropriately seat himself as head of the Egyptian government. http://salem-news.com/articles/june242012/political-hi-jinx-mdp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june242012/political-hi-jinx-mdp.php Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:20:00 PDT June 30, the date for Egypt’s supreme council of armed forces to hand over power to an elected civilian government, is drawing nearer. All the major players in post-Mubarak transitional period are ready to throw in their last card … including Israel. http://salem-news.com/articles/june202012/egypt-elections-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june202012/egypt-elections-ae.php Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:16:00 PDT Hosni Mubarak, the deposed Egyptian leader, has been revived and is on an artificial respirator after he suffered stroke, sources in the interior ministry and from his family told Al Jazeera. Earlier on Tuesday the state news agency, MENA, quoted medical sources as saying that the former president, aged 84, was "clinically dead"... http://salem-news.com/articles/june192012/mubarak-dead-jf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june192012/mubarak-dead-jf.php Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:52:00 PDT On Thursday 8 June 1967, Israeli air and naval forces attacked America’s most advanced spy ship, the U.S.S. Liberty, killing 34 of its crew and wounding 174. The lesson of this cold-blooded, murderous attack was that there is nothing the Zionist state might not do, to its friends as well as its enemies, in order to get its own way. http://salem-news.com/articles/june082012/liberty-anniversary-ah.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june082012/liberty-anniversary-ah.php Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:51:00 PDT The past two weeks has seen an increasing media interest in America's use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s), better known as drones. Medea Benjamin, writing in the Information Clearing House asks "Will Americans Speak Out Against Obama's Drone Warfare?" http://salem-news.com/articles/june082012/obama-wright-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june082012/obama-wright-pb.php Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:19:00 PDT Back in 2009, in Houston Texas, Mimi Adams, a distinguished Palestinian solidarity & human rights activist, gave me a present- a USS Liberty baseball cap. She put it on my head and said, “Gilad, in the next two weeks, make sure you have it on your head everywhere you go in America. You will see what happens.” http://salem-news.com/articles/june072012/remembering-liberty-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june072012/remembering-liberty-ga.php Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:00:00 PDT Last Saturday, The deposed Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, was sentenced to life in prison, a sentence that was deemed fair by many political analysts and observers. But against all odds, the verdict which, in my opinion, has been tailored to placate an angry people, has instead infuriated the majority of Egyptians... http://salem-news.com/articles/june062012/mubarak-verdict.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june062012/mubarak-verdict.php Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:15:00 PDT Memories of the deadly and intense 1967 Israeli attack on the American Navy ship, U.S.S. Liberty, will never go away. You might assume that John McCain, a former U.S. Naval officer, would be a proponent of this movement for accountability. No dice though. http://salem-news.com/articles/june032012/morris-mccain-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june032012/morris-mccain-tk.php Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:13:00 PDT “The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship” blows apart the only American investigation that was ever conducted. The U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry’s white wash rush job that confirmed Israel’s claim of “mistaken identity.” http://salem-news.com/articles/may302012/liberty-attack.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may302012/liberty-attack.php Wed, 30 May 2012 20:00:00 PDT The official results of the first round of the historic Egyptian presidential elections present an encouraging snapshot of “new democratic Egypt”. http://salem-news.com/articles/may272012/egypt-elections-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may272012/egypt-elections-fl.php Sun, 27 May 2012 23:12:00 PDT