Senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam el-Erian has linked the Boston terror attack, the war in Mali, the war in Syria, and the war in Iraq to unnamed sinister forces that control the media and “funded the violence.” El-Erian was careful to phrase his accusations — posted in Arabic to his...

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Egypt has deployed forces to the Sinai Peninsula several times since the start of this year without prior coordination with Israel. The violation of the two countries’ peace treaty was confirmed to The Tower by Israeli security officials. In other cases, according to Israeli security sources, Cairo has “coordinated” troop...

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Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef – arrested last month for insulting Islam and the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohamed Morsi – triggered a new round of controversy over the weekend with a sketch in which he compared the Muslim Brotherhood to the Nazis. In his Saturday sketch, Youssef, who is regularly described as...

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A new poll [PDF] released late Friday by the Arab American Institute shows that American views on Egypt and on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood have plummeted to their lowest in at least twenty years: For most of the past two decades, American opinion of Egypt has been overwhelmingly favorable. In the...

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A NATO initiative to bring together Israel and six Arab states situated along the Mediterranean has been scrapped after Turkey and Egypt raised objections. Turkish diplomats scrambled to deny that their moves had anything to do with ongoing anti-Israel diplomacy being conducted by the Islamist Justice and Development party of...

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Slowly, quietly, the new divided Egypt – divided between the Muslim Brotherhood and its opponents – is changing the space where Egypt meets the Gaza Strip. While the smuggling of goods through the Rafah tunnels has begun returning to its old patterns, the scope of that smuggling has dropped off...

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A foreigner to entering Egypt earlier this week might think he had reached some sort of Middle Eastern paradise. On Wednesday, Egyptian news sites and TV stations devoted extensive coverage to the joint press conference between Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani and his Egyptian counterpart Hesham Kandil. Al-Thani...

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Egyptian security forces operating in the Sinai Peninsula have seized several caches of weapons and explosives this week, which officials believe were destined for use against both Israel and Egypt. Officials told the Ma’an News Agency that among the cache contained anti-aircraft shells, grenades, and anti-tank mines intended for the bordering...

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Arabic media outlets are reporting that a high-level Israeli security delegation landed in Cairo on Thursday to meet with Egyptian intelligence and military officials. The leak to Ma’an News Agency is said to have come from an airport official. Focus on the Sinai Peninsula If confirmed, the news will be...

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Public approval of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi hit an all-time low in March, though the electoral consequences of his unpopularity are unclear. The Muslim-Brotherhood linked president has only a 47 percent approval rating — alongside 45 percent disapproval — but the opposition is so fractured that he would handily win any new election: However, the...

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