Egyptian Movement for Transitional Justice. The Weekly Standard: Why Egypt Is Really Protesting. Hide captionEgyptian demonstrators throw stones at Egyptian police during demonstration in Suez demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak has been ruling the country for nearly three decades, and is expected to pass the presidency to his son, Gamal. Khaled Desouki /AFP/Getty Images Egyptian demonstrators throw stones at Egyptian police during demonstration in Suez demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak has been ruling the country for nearly three decades, and is expected to pass the presidency to his son, Gamal. Lee Smith is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. He is the author of The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations. Egyptian sources are dismissing reports that Gamal Mubarak and his family have left Cairo for London. The test of an Arab dictator is not the virtue of his rule, but the length of it, and to be followed by his progeny extends his name further into the future.
Egyptian revolution: An Egyptian family nurtured in rebellion - latimes.com. Reporting from Cairo — Friends coming to call at the Seif family's comfortable apartment in Mohandiseen over the last two weeks were likely to be disappointed, but not surprised. The Seifs, longtime activists who have been familiar fixtures at most demonstrations in Cairo over the years, have been waiting for Egypt's revolution since the 1970s. When it called, they moved like sailors to battle stations. Laila Soueif, a mathematics professor at Cairo University, organized faculty marches across the central city and set up a camp spot in Tahrir Square. Daughter Mona Seif, 24, helped lead the march on the Egyptian TV building and posted updates on Twitter from her encampment outside parliament. Younger daughter Sanaa, 17, compiled video for a documentary on the uprising from Tahrir Square.
The family stayed in touch by cellphone, occasionally finding the opportunity to stretch out sleeping blankets next to one another in the chilly square. "First, it wouldn't work. Maddow On Egypt: Some On The Right Are 'Siding With Mubarak' On her Friday show, Rachel Maddow accused some right-wingers of siding with former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak over the protesters who toppled him. She began by playing several clips of conservative commentators and analysts warning that Egyptians or Arabs or people in the Middle East either were not ready for democracy or could not be trusted with it. She then said that these views were evidence of the way that the conservative movement has shifted away from the neo-conservatism of the previous decade: "Had what happened in Egypt today, had it happened even a couple of years ago, American conservatives might have been trying to claim credit, saying Egypt happened because Bush bombed Iraq or something, or, 'Mubarak?
We always felt about him like we felt about Saddam! ' It would have been a hard sell but I could see them doing it. But who could have imagined that instead of that you would have big portions of the American right just flat out siding with Mubarak? " Photo : yfrog.com/h79d3jkj - Shared by richardengelnbc. Egypt protests. Egypt Revolution & Internatl. Impact. 28th Jan. 2011 - Storyful - Kasr Al Nile Bridge clashes Egypt Egyptian Clashes Police Cairo Mubarak. The mother of all inventions. - Husain's posterous. Mubarak dismisses government - Middle East. The Egyptian president has dismissed his government, saying he will replace it with a new one on Saturday. "I have asked the government to resign and tomorrow there will be a new government," Hosni Mubarak said in an address to the nation in the early hours of Saturday after four days of deadly protests.
The president said that change can not be achieved through chaos but through dialogue. Saying he understood that the people of Egypt wanted him to address poverty, employment and democratic reform, he promised to press ahead with social, economic and political reforms. "We will not backtrack on reforms. We will continue with new steps which will ensure the independence of the judiciary and its rulings, and more freedom for citizens," Mubarak said. He said new steps will be taken "to contain unemployment, raise living standards, improve services and stand by the poor".
Mona El Tahawy, an Egyptian columnist and author living in the US, dismissed these comments. 'Not enough' ElBaradei: The man to lead a 'free' Egypt? Former IAEA chief, Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei to join protests FridayHas received death threats after pushing for grassroots change in EgyptNo plans as yet to run for president despite calls for his candidacy Says will not stand while "the deck is stacked completely" (CNN) -- When thousands of angry protesters take to the streets of Egypt on Friday, one man many see as the country's next potential leader will be among them.
The Cairo-born former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei on Thursday returned to the country, despite death threats, to be with "his people. " "There was an edict against me a couple of weeks ago basically saying that my life should be dispensable because I am defying the rulers," ElBaradei told CNN on Tuesday. "I have no security when I go to Egypt .... but, you know, you have to be with your people," ElBaradei said. ElBaradei: Egypt is not stable Egypt's reluctant leader ElBaradei on the Iraq war.