Egyptian President Adly Mansour swore in the country’s new cabinet on Tuesday. The move marks the formal end – temporary though many fear it will be – of what had been a a widely criticized process widely criticized process of “Brotherhoodization” of Egypt’s political institutions. Senior Arab League official and former head...

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Egyptian state TV announced this morning that Egypt’s interim government would be unveiling its first cabinet since the removal from power of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, after clashes in Cairo on Monday and early Tuesday killed 7 people and injured more than 250 others. Demonstrators demanding the release of the...

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The Sinai Peninsula is fast becoming the primary battleground between the Egyptian military and Islamist groups ranging from the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian off-shoot Hamas, to Al-Qaeda and Salafist groups. The peninsula’s always-tenuous stability has been further undermined by the successive falls of Egyptian presidents Hosni Mubarak in 2011...

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish media Sunday that he still considers the ousted Mohammed Morsi to be Egypt’s leader: “Currently, my president in Egypt is Morsi because he was elected by the people,” he told the pro-government Today’s Zaman. “If we don’t judge the situation like that it...

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Growing concerns that violence from the increasingly anarchic Sinai Peninsula will spill over into Israel spiked over the weekend, as shots were fired on Israeli soldiers Sunday night. Israeli military officials responded to the incident by ramping up security in southern Israel. Jihadists have engaged in a string of attacks...

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Iran has struggled to establish a coherent position on the Egyptian army’s ouster of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi. On one hand, Egypt under Morsi – along with the rest of the region’s Sunni powers – had aligned opposite Shiite Iran in the Syrian conflict. There are rumors that Morsi...

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More than one analyst has directly tied the decline and eventual ouster of former Egytpian president Mohammed Morsi to his administration’s mismanagement of the Egyptian economy. By the time Egyptian citizens launched the mass June 30 demonstrations that brought down Morsi’s government, fuel shortages were rampant and the country was...

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On Tuesday an attack on a northern Sinai checkpoint killed two and injured six. Later that evening and overnight assailants launched attacks on an airport checkpoint and near an army base. On Wednesday gunmen opened fire on the car of a senior military commander. On Thursday a soldier was killed, reportedly trying to...

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Israelis who have been watching events in Egypt unfold in recent weeks have had a bit of historically unprecedented assistance: average Egyptians describing the latest eyewitness accounts in fluent Hebrew. Egypt has 12 universities. Each – even Al-Azhar University, the iconic stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood – contains a Middle...

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The U.S. State Department on Wednesday outlined its position on former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s government: State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Morsi’s government “wasn’t a democratic rule … What I mean is what we’ve been referencing about the 22 million people who have been out there voicing their views and making...

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