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News Coverage

prepared for: The European Union delegation

to Egypt

Disclaimer:

“This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The

contents of this document are the sole responsibility of authors of articles and under no

circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of IPSOS or the European Union.”

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Thematic Headlines Domestic Scene

Life Sentence for 4 Policemen over Bilal’s Death No Date Set to Announce Presidential Election Results - HPEC Shafiq Says To Be “Legitimate Winner of Elections” Protesters Head to Tahrir

Rallies Continue in Tahrir

American and Interior Pressure to Declare the Presidential Runoff Results

Top Confidential MB Plot

Life Imprisonment for Officers

A Mass-Demonstration Today

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Newspapers (22/06/2012)

Pages: 1 Author: Khalid Abu al-Izz and others

American and Interior Pressure to Declare the Presidential Runoff Results

The United States is pressurizing the Egyptian authorities to declare the final results of the presidential elections and to hand over the political power sto a civil elected president.

Political players launched a barrage of criticism against the US’s interference in Egypt’s affair. The US Department of State had criticized the Egyptian authorities for the delay in declaring the final results of the presidential elections.

A diplomatic source called on Washington not to interfere in Egypt’s Internal Affairs.

To that Salafi al-Nour Party declared that ot would accpt the official results, stressing the inanity to reach compromises in all parties.

On the other hand, the Muslim Brotherhood threatened of a one month sit-in to protest against declaring Mursi resident

Similar news was reported in al-Shurouk, p. 1

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Page: 3 Author: Nabil Abu-Shal and Nasser el-Sharqawi

Life Sentence for 4 Policemen over Bilal’s Death

The Alexandria Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced four fugitive policemen, who were embroiled into the killing of Sayyed Bilal, a Salafist, to life in prison.

The court ruled that a fifth policeman, identified as Mohamed Abdel-Rahman el-Shimi, to be held in custody, face 15 years in jail.

Bilal was believed to have been tortured to death by security men.

Bilal's family accused state security officers of torturing him to death over alleged links to the bombing of the Two Saints Church on New Year's Eve last year.

The 31-year-old man, a member of the Salafist movement in Alexandria, was arrested on January 4. Two days later, police handed over Bilal as a dead body, and the family demanded a probe be launched into his death.

The five officers were indicted for torturing Bilal to death while interrogating him as a suspect in the 2010 New Year's Eve church bombing.

Similar news was reported in Al-Akhbar (page 3)

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Page: 6 Author: Mohamed el-Sanhouri

No Date Set to Announce Presidential Election Results – HPEC

No date has been set to announce the results of the presidential runoff elections, said Counselor Hatem Begato, the Secretary General of the Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC).

The HPEC is exerting utmost efforts to announce the results as soon as possible, he told Al-Arabiya news channel in an interview Thursday.

Judges issue the rulings according to the law, regardless of any implications, he said.

The election results were postponed as the HPEC received 440 appeals from both candidates on Tuesday, he said, noting that the HPEC received only seven appeals in the first round of the elections.

Asked about the possibility of holding re-run elections in some polling stations, Begato said such decision will be made in light of the HPEC's report.

Regarding a lawsuit filed to ask the cabinet and the military council to suspend the results, citing violations and vote rigging, Begato said that the military council and the cabinet have nothing to do with the electoral process, adding that HPEC is the only authority responsible of the process.

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Page: 4 Author: Mostafa Abido, Safwat Omran and Essam el-Awami

Protesters Head to Tahrir

Protesters started flocking to Cairo's Tahrir Square to participate in fresh protests ahead of Friday’s rally of "No to the complementary constitutional declaration," called for by a number of revolutionary powers.

Friday's million-people protest calls on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to abolish the complementary declaration and hand over power to the elected president.

They also demand revoking a recently enacted law that grants military police and military intelligence officers the right to arrest civilians.

The protesters deem the law as a bid to revive the state of emergency, which expired on May 31.

SCAF should not have anything to do with the formation of the Constituent Assembly, the body assigned with drafting the nation's constitution, the protesters said.

Among the powers that announced their participation in Friday’s protests were the Freedom and Justice Party, Al-Wasat Party, the April 6 Youth Movement (Ahmed Maher Front), the Revolution Youth Coalition, Al-Nour Party and the Construction and Development Party.

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Pages: 1, 4 Author: Mahmoud Abdin

Top Confidential MB Plot

The Freedom and Justice party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood held an urgent secret meeting for the leaders in all the governorates. The meeting was held by Khayrat al-Shater and Issam al-Aryan and tackled the plan of the group’s and its party’s movement after the declaration of the official results of the elections.

Al-Dustour summarized the steps as follows: In case Muhammad Mursi lost the presidential runoff, trained groups of the Muslim

Brotherhood would drag the youth into demonstrations against Ahmad Shafiq. During the demonstrations snipers will shoot at demonstrators. There will also be inactive cells in Tahrir, Abbasiya, Mustafa Mahmoud and Dukki.”

The Bedouin groups will move to strike the police and security barriers in Sinai to facilitate the access of Hamas groups and members into the Egyptian territories to help in the military coup d’etat against the president and the Army. However, in case Mursi won, a list of 300 public personalities will be simultaneously killed in different governorates to spread panic and petrify people as a step towards building “greater brotherhood state” and its capital Jerusalem.

The move in Cairo will be on three steps. The first step is attacking Tora Prison to assassinate Jamal and Alaa Mubarak, and former minister of interior Habib al-Adili. The former president Mubarak was on the list but then he was transferred to the Military Hospital after a radical deterioration of his health. All leaders and personalities who know secret information about the Muslim Brotherhood will also be assassinated. The second step will be attacks against the revolutionary youth and demonstrators. Police identity cards will be thrown in Tahrir to give the impression that the police is killing the demonstrators so that the victims’ families will revolt and ask for Revenge. Consequently the police will be dissolved and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Militias will take over.

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Page: 1 Author: Ismail el-Wassimi

Shafiq Says To Be “Legitimate Winner of Elections”

Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq on Thursday asserted he is the legitimate winner of the presidential elections, saying he would respect the results that will be announced by the Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC).

"Based on the vote count made by my campaign, I am confident that I will be the legitimate winner," he told a press conference.

"I am waiting for the announcement of the HPEC which will have the final say on the results, and I will respect its decision."

Shafiq called for waiting the official announcement of the HPEC on the results.

"We decided to remain silent and wait for the decision of the commission from the very beginning," he said.

Shafiq accused his rival Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, of tying to ratchet up pressure on the electoral commission.

"We were not the ones who rushed to claim to be the winners. We were not the ones who sought to seize the presidency before the official results of the elections are out," he said.

He also condemned the ongoing protests in Tahrir Square, saying they run counter to "the simplest rules of democracy".

Shafiq thanked his supporters and those who voted for him.

"I gained the backing of millions of voters...I thank them," he said.

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Pages: 1 Author: Muhammad Fuad and Ahmad Badrawi

Life Imprisonment for Officers

In an unprecedented court ruling against Alexandria criminal court condemned four State Security officers, sentencing them to life imprisonment. The four officers escaped. The only present suspect, however, was sentenced to 15-year imprisonment.

The officers were proved guilty in torturing Sayyid Bilal to death. Bilal was accused of executing the bombing al-Qiddisein Church in Alexandria on the New Year’s, 2011.

Similar news was reported in al-Ahram, p. 1

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Pages: 1, 5 Author: not mentioned

A Mass-Demonstration Today

A number of political players and activists in Egypt called for a mass demonstration today in Tahrir Square.

The demonstration is meant to be a protest against the Complementary Constitutional Declaration, the judicial seizure right granted to the military police and also against the dissolve of the Parliament.

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Page: 4 Author: Ahmed el-Tahawi, Bahaa el-Mahdi, Doaa Sami, Yasmin el-Tayyar and Abdel-Galil Mohamed

Rallies Continue in Tahrir

Hundreds of demonstrators are still gathering in Tahrir Sqyare on Thursday to call for ending the military rule and handing over power to the elected president on June 30.

Protesters rejected dissolving the People's Assembly along with issuing the supplementary constitutional declaration.

The demonstrators urged the continuation of the elected Constituent Assembly to write the new constitution of Egypt.

Participants - most of them from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Freedom and Justice Party - stressed the revolution continues and that it is still in the square, saying Mohamed Morsi is the one who can make changes and achieve its goals.

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TV Coverage (21/6/2012)

Channel: Al-Hayat Host: Lobna Assal

Begato said: With all respect to the “Judges for Egypt’s Sake Movement” but HPEC is the only entity responsible for announcing the presidential election results.

Major General Sameh Seif Al-Yazal, a strategic expert, said some political powers conducted calls with foreign countries.

Program: Montaha Al-Saraha Channel: Al-Hayat 2 Host: Mostafa Bakry

Counselor Tahany Al-Gebaly, deputy chairman of the Supreme Constitutional Court said:

The Complementary Constitutional Declaration fills the gap of not having a legislative authority during this phase in Egypt.

The Supreme Constitutional Court ruling on dissolving the parliament is final.

Program: Al-Hayat Al-Yoom

Program: Sabah Al-Kheir Ya Masr Channel 1”State TV”

The Carter Center questioned the integrity of the elections. Security forces are ready before announcing the elections, contests have been filed so

announcing the results has been delayed. The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) warns from the consequences.

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News Channel 2”State TV” Time: 26:00:00

Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to condemn the

Complementary Constitutional Declaration and to demand handing over full power to the

elected president.

Similar news was reported in: Program: Misr Tantakheb Al-Raees, Channel: CBC, Host: Emad Adeeb Program: Al-Hayat Al-Yoom, Channel: Al-Hayat, Host: Lobna Assal Program: News Brief, Channel 1”State TV”, Time: 27:00:00 Program: 24 Hours News, Channel 1”State TV”, Time: 25:00:00 Program: Akher Al-Nahar, Channel: Al-Nahar, Host: Mahmoud Saad

Clinton demands the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to hand over power to

the elected president.

Similar news was reported in: Program: Al-Hayat Al-Yoom, Channel: Al-Hayat, Host: Lobna Assal

Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq said he is confident that he will win in the runoff.

Similar news was reported in: Program: News Brief, Channel 1”State TV”, Time: 27:00:00

Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq criticized his rival Mohamed Morsi as the latter did

not wait for the High Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) to announce the results and

declared him the winner and urged his supporters to protest.

Similar news was reported in: Program: News Brief, Channel 1”State TV”, Time: 27:00:00

Counselor Hatem Begato, HPEC Secretary-General, said we will announce the results as

soon as the commission finishes reviewing the field challenges.

Similar news was reported in: Program: Misr Tantakheb Al-Raees, Channel: CBC, Host: Emad Adeeb Program: Al-Hayat Al-Yoom, Channel: Al-Hayat, Host: Lobna Assal Program: News Brief, Channel 1”State TV”, Time: 27:00:00 Program: 24 Hours News, Channel 1”State TV”, Time: 25:00:00

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Program: Akher Al-Nahar Channel: Al-Nahar Host: Mahmoud Saad

Ex-presidential candidate Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh and the leader of Al-Wasat Party are discussing forming a coalition that includes other parties.

The European Union said the Complementary Constitutional Declaration raises questions about the upcoming Constitutional Declaration.

The court will review a lawsuit calling for suspending the the presidential election results on June 26.

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Radio Coverage (21/6/2012

News Channel: Radio Masr Time: 20:00:00

Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to condemn the Complementary Constitutional Declaration and to demand handing over full power to the elected president.

Similar news was reported in: Channel: State Radio, Time: 23:00:00 Channel: Al-Shark Al-Awsat, Time: 25:00:00

Counselor Hatem Begato, High Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) Secretary-General, said the commission will announce the results as soon as it finishes reviewing the field challenges.

Similar news was reported in: Channel: State Radio, Time: 23:00:00 Channel: Al-Shark Al-Awsat, Time: 25:00:00

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Internet Coverage (22/6/2012)

Facebook We are all Khaled Saeed

Three different covers of prominent UK magazine “The Economist” since the time of the revolution until now, since Egypt’s uprising to Egypt in danger. We will not allow Egypt to go back to square one. We will never go back to injustice, suppression and corruption. We will continue the revolution and will emerge victorious God Will. The youth who brought down dictatorship can bring down any injustice and can do the undoable. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=433310933385443&set=a.104265636289976.2684.104224996294040&type=1

For six hours, Dr. Mohamed Morsi held two meetings with some youths and national figures. Among the attendees: Dr. Alaa el-Aswani, media man Hamdi Qandil, Abdel-Ghafar Shokr, Dr. Amar Ali Hassan, MP Hatem Hazam, Dr. Abdel-Galil Mostafa, Wael Ghoneim, journalist Wael Qandil, Mohamed el-Qesas, Dr. Heba Raouf Ezzat, Dr. Seifeddin Abdel-Fattah, Dr. Rabab el-Mahdi, Mohamed Osman, Khaled el-Sayed, Dr. Osama Yassin, Shadi el-Ghazali, Ahmed Maher, Islam Lotfi, Dr. Essam el-Hedad, Dr. Mohamed el-Beltagy and Dr. Mohamed el-Shehawi (representing Dr. Abul-Fotouh). https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=433326623383874&set=a.104265636289976.2684.104224996294040&type=1

We have said it once and will continue to say it: No go back! No go back to injustice! No go back to torture! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=433364500046753&set=a.104265636289976.2684.104224996294040&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=433390056710864&set=a.104265636289976.2684.104224996294040&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=433669720016231&set=a.104265636289976.2684.104224996294040&type=1

An important statement by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvMyzC50zls

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The Muslim Brotherhood

Freedom and Justice Party Pledges Participation in All Popular Actions to Achieve Revolution Goals

The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) expresses its sincere thanks and deep appreciation

to the great Egyptian people for their massive response and powerful, positive participation in the million-man marches and demonstrations on Tuesday 19 June 2012 rejecting the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)’s so-called constitutional supplement and its decision to dissolve the People’s Assembly.

The FJP’s Executive Office, at the conclusion of its meeting, today Wednesday June 20, affirms that it will join the Egyptian people and all political and revolutionary parties, groups and movements, in all public actions and events, until the demands of Tuesday’s million-man demonstration – under the banner ‘In liberty square, until parliament returns’ – are met, so as to achieve the following objectives:

The return of the elected parliament to its legislative and oversight duties.

Cancellation of the complementary constitutional declaration that reduced the powers of the President of the Republic and created a justification for SCAF to stay on and not to hand over power in full, in accordance with the agreed timetable.

Cancellation of the decision to grant military police and intelligence officers powers to arrest and detain civilians.

Allowing the elected Constituent Assembly to carry out its mission of drafting the new constitution, in order for that to be expressive of all the Egyptian people, and not to disrupt the work of the Assembly or to establish another Assembly not based on the legitimacy of the March 2011 referendum.

The FJP calls its members in provinces across Egypt to join all citizens in the pursuit of these demands by the peaceful means guaranteed by the law, and affirmed by the blessed January revolution.

Morsi Campaign Press Conference at Fairmont Hotel to Discuss Latest Developments

Dr. Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s President-elect, held two meetings yesterday with the country’s revolutionary and political parties, groups and movements, to discuss developments and changes in the political scene and the steps to be taken in the face of current challenges.

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The attendees agreed to hold a news conference on Friday, at 3:30pm local time (1:30GMT) at the Fairmont Hotel in Heliopolis to announce steps, actions and strategies agreed upon at yesterday’s meetings. Yesterday’s meetings were attended by a large number of eminent personalities representing various political and social currents, including: Dr. Alaa Aswani, Hamdi Qandil, Abdul-Ghaffar Shukr, Dr. Ammar Ali Hassan, MP Hatem Azzam, Dr. Abdel-Galil Mustafa, Wael Ghoneim, Wael Qandil, Mohamed Al-Qassas, Dr. Heba Raouf Ezzat, Dr. Sayf Al-Din Abdel-Fattah, Dr. Rabab Al-Mahdi, Mohamed Othman, Wael Khalil, Khalid Al-Sayed, Dr. Osama Yassin, Shadi Al-Ghazali, Ahmed Maher, Islam Lutfi, Dr. Essam Al-Haddad, Dr. Mohamed Beltagy, Dr. Mohamed Shahawi (representing Dr. Abul Fotouh), and Dr. Yasser Ali.

Freedom and Justice Party Sues Al-Dostour Newspaper for Slanderous Fabrications

Dr. Essam El-Erian, Vice-Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), has commissioned the FJP’s legal department to file a libel and defamation complaint against the owner and board chairman and editor-in-chief of Al-Dostour newspaper because of fabricated falsehoods published by the paper in its Thursday, June 21 issue, against the FJP.

In that issue, the paper accused the FJP of holding a secret meeting and of putting a plot to cause confusion and chaos if the Supreme Presidential Elections Committee (SPEC) does not announce victory for the party's candidate, Dr. Mohamed Morsi.

Erian asserted that the false report published by the newspaper is a pure, deliberate lie that evidently relied on misinformation that never existed except in the minds of its writers who wish to vilify and tarnish the image of the FJP and its leaders.

"Al-Dostour is adopting the same old approach favored by the corrupt former regime, which it applied through the state security apparatus against the Muslim Brotherhood and its honorable leaders in this country, making all sorts of vilifying claims against them, all of which have been proven fabricated fables and lies."

The FJP’s Vice-Chairman called on the media to commit to professional objectivity and to investigate the accuracy of stories before they publish anything about the FJP and its leaders, and to hold high the interests of Egypt, rather than publish tendentious information intended only to distort the homeland’s honorable people.

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Rantings of a Sandmonkey:

Chapter’s end!

In my humble opinion, today concludes the end of the first chapter of the Egyptian revolution. I know that other people have it divided into sections in regards to original 18 days, elections, parliament and presidential elections, but I don’t subscribe to that. We went into the revolution with the same thinking that people like me had back in 2005: we must remove Mubarak, stop his son from inheriting us, and get democratic elections. All of us had those goals and not a single vision on what to do afterwards, because the removal of Mubarak was such a pipedream. So, you successfully dethrone a tyrant, and you have neither plan nor vision on what to do afterwards, and no real understanding of the regime itself, then, quite naturally, you fall flat on your face, and we have been doing that for the past 18 months. This has been our story: the removal of a dictator and the repercussions that follow. That’s what’s been happening. This ends today, and the new chapter starts, for better or worse.

I never bought for a second the notion that Shafiq is SCAF’s candidate, mainly because everyone would think that he is, so his success or failures would be counted as their successes and failures. And it would be mostly failures, because there is something called the international economy and its tanking, so he would’ve never been able to deliver on his promises, and the Egyptian people are an impatient lot, so attacks on him, and subsequently SCAF would weaken their popularity amongst the population, with no one else left to blame anymore.

So why would they do that? It’s best not to have a candidate, and to turn a blind eye to Morsy’s violations, have him win as the “revolutionary candidate”- because some morons have hyped him as such- and have us deal with the consequences. In reality, SCAF don’t need to make a deal with anyone, because they have all the guns and institutions, so they know that whoever will get in will have to make a deal with them. In the end, there was no SCAF candidate, but rather the former NDP battling the MB, and the revolutionaries, instead of recognizing that they are both enemies and choose to stay out of this fight, many of them joined Morsy, something which they will regret for years.

I invalidated my vote, mainly because I refuse to succumb to fear-politics and thinking that they both suck as candidates. That being said, I have been under continuous attack from many of the revolutionaries for not supporting Morsy. Well, my dear friends, I am sorry that you are a bunch of cowards that let your fear control your political choices. I am not that kind of man. If I attacked Morsy, it’s because I don’t want him being dubbed the revolution’s candidate, because he simply isn’t, and will never be in my eyes. Our revolution called for a civil state: nonreligious, non-military, and this guy will try to form a religious military state. The people who supported Morsy, believing that the MB will

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change or be democratic, are really 3 groups: 1) People pissing in their pants out of fear, 2) People who made deals with the Brotherhood (and yes, Maher, I am looking at you), and 3) people who are stupid enough to believe that the MB will change or not betray them the first chance they got.

For me, the choice was simple: have the MB and NDP fight, while we organize ourselves so we can face off with the winner afterwards, but groupthink has always been the cancer of this revolution, so here we are. Good Job. Enjoy being accomplices in what’s to come.

Today also marks the end of the concept of revolutionary legitimacy, with all the symbolic actions that came with it and defined it. Everyone who had it, failed. People will need to actually do something except alienate people who are their allies and continue to take the dumbest route possible at all times. If you are a revolutionary, show us your capabilities. Start something.

Join a party. Build an institution. Solve a real problem. Do something except running around from demonstration to marsh to sit-in. This is not street work: real street work means moving the street, not moving in the street. Real street work means that the street you live in knows you and trusts you, and will move with you , because you help them and care for them, not because you want to achieve some lofty notions you read about in a book without any real understanding on how to apply it on Egyptian soil. You have done nothing of the kind so far, and it’s the only way you will get ahead.

The next phase requires 4 things: 1) For all the leaders and the symbols to, once, just once, put aside their petty differences and ideological purity for the greater good of the country (which they never have been able to do), and sit down and figure out what their mistakes were and what kind of plan amending them will require, 2) Once they put that plan, they need to recues themselves from the frontlines of the revolution once and for all,

and let the second and third generation take over.

We failed them, they should stop following us and taking our cue, including tossing that plan in the trash if they don’t think it would work. We should be there to support and help in any way they can, but it’s time for new generation of symbols and leaders, or we are doomed; 3) they cannot be reactionary, emotional or ignore a single front: We will need people on the development front, cultural front and political front. Without being on all of those fronts at once, we will fail; and 4) We should ignore the notion of Unity, and instead of focus on co-operation: We are too different in our ideologies, principles and methods, which would make it impossible for us to unite in one entity.

Fine, don’t, create your separate entities, choose your area and work together when needs be. JUST DON’T FIGHT EACHOTHER OR ACCUSE EACTHOTHER OF TREASON.

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It got you nowhere so far, and it has re-enforced the notion that you are a bunch of children that cannot be trusted to run an ice cream shop, let alone a country.

While we are too busy to mourn our losses, we should also not forget our gains; This is what we won:

Hosny Mubarak, his son and his VP are not ruling us.

The NDP is broken into many different pieces

The next President is chosen through fair, competitive and democratic elections, not matter

what the outcome.

Freedom of Expression, press and speech.

The weakening of the MB, the salafis, the end of using religious speech for political gains (Notice how Morsy didn’t say a single Sharia thing in the past 2 weeks)

Serious understanding to the nature of the state we live in and the roots of its problems, which we never really knew before.

Interlinking between individuals all over the governorates that would’ve never taken place otherwise.

Serious weakening of classism in a classist society

Incredible amount of art, music and culture that was unleashed all over the country

Entire generations in schools and universities that have become politicized, aware and active.

A serious evaluation of our intelligentsia and why they suck.

Discovering the difference between symbols and leaders, and our need for the latter than the former.

No matter what the outcome is, I am neither depressed nor demotivated. I have resolved, many months ago, that this revolution is continuing with or without me, and that the clash with the state and the MB is inevitable and coming, and that it won’t stop anytime soon, mainly because the problems that sparked it are real, and no one has attempted to fix them, and they are getting worse by the minute. Whether we like it or not, whether we live to see it or not, this fight will continue. Many people keep saying that there is no turning back, without actually understanding what that means. Well, it means that there is no exit

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strategy for this mess, any quick fix solution, and no way out without serious compromises by all parties, which will not happen without political or real clashes, and won’t stop until equilibrium is reached. For better or worse, what we had before won’t happen again. This ship has sailed. Understand what that means, and make your choices accordingly, but know this: Fight or Flight, there is no going back. The next Chapter begins now.

Arabawy:

Documentary – The Family – Part I: http://www.arabawy.org/2012/06/22/documentary-the-family-part-i/

Despite any setbacks, we’ve come a long way… http://www.arabawy.org/2012/06/22/despite-any-setbacks-weve-come-a-long-way/

Sameh Naguib: The future of the Egyptian revolution after the presidential elections. http://www.arabawy.org/2012/06/22/revsoc-elections-islamists-shafiq/

Revolutionary Leftist and the Muslim Brotherhood. http://www.arabawy.org/2012/06/22/revolutionary-left-and-mbs/

The Revolutionary Front against the coup. http://www.arabawy.org/2012/06/22/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8/

Twitter Wael Abbas:

I will talk about the e-campaigns of the presidential candidates of Khaled Ali and Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh. Does anyone want me to focus on a specific point?

http://aljoufnews.com/sa/news-action-show-id-25241.htm

Iyad elbaghdadi:

So many groups claim to be Islam. You're not Islam, and thank God for that. #MB #Salafi

#Yemen should learn the lesson from #Pakistan. Has US drone wars on rural villages wiped out Alqaeda there? It's only been a decade.

If you haven't been called an idiot recently, then you need to get off the fence.

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If you're a fierce, extreme Islamist you are part of the problem. If you're a fierce, extreme anti-Islamist you are part of the problem.

I'm more interested in opposing authoritarianism than any specific ideological manifestation of it.

MB joins: "MB is taking over & climbing over #Tahrir; MB is openly declaring war on SCAF; MB is responsible for the deaths." #Egypt

MB doesn't join: "MB is cowards; MB is in league with the SCAF; MB cares more about the elections than Egyptian blood." #Egypt #Tahrir

I'm not making excuses for them. Their conduct between Feb11 & now is the reason. They painted themselves into this corner. #Egypt #MB

Just finished Will Durant's "Greatest Minds & Ideas of all Time". Highly disappointed.

See you later.

"We want liberty!" "No, shut up, we have security!" - Back and forth sums up a lot of #ArabSpring debates. And chants. And counter chants.

Two explosions reported in Barzeh, Damascus #Syria.

I hope to God it's not those Friday-only part-time Alqaeda Zionist masonist imperialist suicide gangs again. #Syria

The Friday events to really follow aren't the ones in #Egypt but in #Sudan. I bet police in Khartoum & Omdurman are on alert.

Any truth to reports that an inside source said #MB regretted fielding a candidate for president? #Egypt

Daily Mirror uses photo shop & lucky camera positions to make it seem like #Dubai is a ghost town: http://bit.ly/McHY6n

#UAE tweeps may get a kick out of the last tweet. Or get infuriated. Or both.

#Dubai is doing just fine, Daily Mirror. It'll be a long time indeed before the Burj sinks into the sand, as happy as that will make you.

Out of all #ArabSpring countries, #Yemen is having the harshest post-revolution limbo.

The #ArabSpring needs a manifesto.

When you're young, changing your paradigm is like changing clothes. When you get older it becomes more like a surgical operation.

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I'd love to have a conversation with extreme Salafis, just as soon as we can agree on the definition of "true" and "false".

"Tartus naval base is not negotiable". No Putin, #Syria's liberty is not negotiable.

What does the US administration, Assad, SCAF, the UN, the MB, and Putin have in common? They believe in backroom deals and ignore our voice.

They misdiagnosed this as a political revolution. It's a popular revolution. The genie is out of the bottle. We won't be quiet any more. #pt

Don't be fooled by the loudness of our authoritarians. They're just in a lot of pain.

Telegraph: "Leading Syrian officials preparing to defect": http://bit.ly/Lnzef0 #Syria

This may be premature, but #Syria, the day #Assad is gone is not the day of deliverance. It'll just be the end of phase 1.

Please stop trying to classify me. It's futile.

Yes, classifying and slotting people may make it easy for simpletons who prefer to treat humans as automata. I'm no automaton.

The more evolved something is, the more difficult to classify. Metals are easier to classify than plants, and so animals, and so humans.

Arabist:

Watching that "really?!?" spy ad again, I can pass on a tip about spotting spies: when they milk you for info, they squint their eyes.

OK have caught up now. In Kuwait, MPs don't wait to be dissolved. They resign: http://arb.st/MmN9Sy

New on Arabist: Podcast #33: Egypt's quantum politics, or Schrodinger's transition http://bit.ly/L9ka02

If Mubarak wrote an autobiography, what would it be called?

Saudi Revolutionaries: An Interview: http://bit.ly/LL2OMS Awesome.

Saudi Arabia: The long day closes | The Economist: http://econ.st/LL2P3r Unsustainable al-Sauds.

The Arab spring: Egypt in peril | The Economist: http://econ.st/LFqPBQ "Back the Islamists"

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Oman: Waking up too | The Economist: http://econ.st/LLiiQZ Another looming succession problem.

A ride through hell by scooter: A video tour through Syria’s most ravaged and ghostly city: http://bit.ly/KplxYF

Syria’s defiant women risk all to protest against President Bashar al-Assad: http://bit.ly/LLikZ8

Anouar Abdel-Malek, 1924-2012: http://bit.ly/MnSclU

Egypt’s ‘Security State’ and Israel: http://bit.ly/MnScCm Andrew Hammond

More on the Protests in Khartoum: http://bit.ly/LLnKDf not getting enough attention.

Why Iran Should Get the Bomb | Foreign Affairs: http://fam.ag/NgxX6c Kenneth Waltz.

New on Arabist: Egypt's Quantum Entanglement http://bit.ly/NhCeXd

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Publication overview

Al-Ahram: Egyptian state-run official daily newspaper

Founded in 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya (English: The Egyptian Events, founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government.

Al-Akhbar: Egyptian state-owned semi-official daily newspaper

It was founded in May 1952 as a part of Akhbar El Yom.

Al-Gomhoria: Egyptian state-owned daily newspaper

An influential state-owned Egyptian Arabic language daily newspaper. It was established in 1954.

Al-Shorouk: Egyptian daily independent newspaper

Are a prominent Arabic newspaper published in Egypt [1] and several other Arabic nations It is a daily independent newspaper, covering mainly politics, militant affairs and sport.

Al-Masry al-Yom: Independent daily newspaper

On 7 June 2004, it published its first edition. The paper initially circulated primarily amongst Cairo’s intellectual elite, providing objective news coverage in the belief that good news would beat sensationalist reporting found in other Egyptian print media. After 3 years, it was challenging Al-Ahram for the status of being the national paper of record. Though

Tahrir: Daily independent newspaper

Dostor: Daily independent newspaper

Yom 7: Daily independent newspaper

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Table of Content: Newspapers ………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………3-11

Al Ahram Newspaper American and Interior Pressure to Declare the Presidential Runoff Results………………………………………………3

Al masry al youm Newspaper Life Sentence for 4 Policemen over Bilal’s Death…………………………………………….……………………………….4 No Date Set to Announce Presidential Election Results – HPEC…………………………….…………………………….5

AL Gomhoria newspaper Protesters Head to Tahrir…………………………………………………………………………..…………………………..6

Al dostour Newspaper Top Confidential MB Plot…………………………………………………………………………………………..……………7

Al Tahrir Newspaper… Shafiq Says To Be “Legitimate Winner of Elections”…………………………………………………………….…………….8

Al Sherouk Newspaper.. Life Imprisonment for Officers…………………………………………………………………………………………………..9

Al youm al 7 newspaper A Mass-Demonstration Today……………………………………………………………………………………………….…10

Al Akhbar Newspaper Rallies Continue in Tahrir………………………………………………………………………………………………………..11

TV Coverage…………………………………………………………..………...……...………...….………..…12-14

Al-Hayat …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12 Al-Hayat 2…………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………..12 Channel 1………………………………………………………………………………….…………….….………….………..…12 Channel 2……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………13 Al nahar…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………..14

Radio Coverage…………………………………………………………………..………..……….………….….…..……….15 Radio Masr …………………………………………….………………………………………………………………………….15

Internet coverage……………………………………………………………………….……......……….…....……..…… 16-25 Facebook……………………………………………………………….…………………………………...…….………….…….16 Muslim brotherhood.................................................................................................................................................................17-18 Rantings of a Sandmonkey………………………………………………………………………………………………..….19-22 Arabawy…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..22 Twitter…………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………22-25