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sidency) the winner by the barest of majorities over his opponent, Shafiq, who was widely viewed as the military's favored candidate and a relic of Hosni Mubarak's ousted dictatorship. The worst of it is this: no matter how unexpectedly skillful a politician Morsi might turn out to be, the task he's facing is

rim military government has actually ceded to him. Just weeks before he took the oath of office, the Supreme Court, stacked with holdovers from the Mubarak regime, effectively dissolved the country's first freely elected Parliament. Then the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) amended its own pr

a gas it would take to run the AC. And he needs whatever he can get from moonlighting as a cabdriver just to keep his 8-year-old in private school. Hassan is convinced--not without reason--that Egypt's woeful public-education system is good for nothing but turning children into undereducated hooligans

by such scenes were the limits of the day's slogan: "The people want the end of the division!" While Egyptians and Tunisians had by then jettisoned Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's Rally for Constitutional Democracy, the March 15 movement was in effect asking Palestini

impossible choice, recapitulated starkly by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after May 2: "It's either Hamas, or peace with Israel." With Mubarak's Egypt shoring up a still-biting Gaza blockade, meanwhile, and taking Fatah's side as the final arbitrator of reconciliation with Hamas, Abbas cou

percent), for clear working control of the national legislature, which will generate a new constitution, followed by a presidential election. Thus Hassan Al- Banna's dream will in some manner be realized seven dozen years after he founded the Muslim Brotherhood. The chance for an Obama option, some v

er potential benefit by helping Hamas establish a trade route with Egypt. EFTA00711391 After the Hamas takeover, Israel and Egypt's former ruler, Hosni Mubarak, enforced a border blockade of Gaza. Israel has since eased some restrictions, but still bars virtually all exports and restricts the imports of ke

r blockade of Gaza. Israel has since eased some restrictions, but still bars virtually all exports and restricts the imports of key raw materials. Mubarak's successor, Mohammed Morsi — who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood — has been reluctant to open the Gaza-Egypt border to trade, in part because th

continuation of more than a millennium of fighting. Whether Lebanon's Sunnis and the world can prove any links between Hizbollah operatives and the Hassan assassination may be irrelevant. Hizbollah is bracing for the worst anyway. Hussain Abdul-Hussain is the Washington bureau chief of the Kuwaiti n

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nough and contains enough sectors and regions to provide nearly efficient diversification. This conclusion is also reached by Abdullah, Mohammad and Hassan (2002), who find that the diversification level of Islamic funds is slightly less than that of conventional but insignificantly so. This risk is ho

ms and channeling this revenue to charitable institutions under government oversight. Liberals, on the other hand, have called for a continuation of Mubarak's policy of increased economic openness and believe that government efficiency is the key issue. The G8 members have pledged $20 billion in financi

ide the Khalifa family can deliver. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently appealed to the King of Bahrain for the release of his friend Hassan al- Sahaf. The publication of Kristofs column was timed to coincide with Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa's visit to Washington, DC. Accord

ab world being transformed by people power. Another variable has been the response: French support for Ben Ali was embarrassing; the US was praising Mubarak days before he departed. Muammar Gaddafi had no friends - and the Arab League was crucial in providing a figleaf for UN-sanctioned Nato intervention.

It is unfinished business wherever it is happening. "The outcome of this tectonic realignment is not just unpredictable but unknowable," said Prince Hassan of Jordan. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018088 --- PAGE BREAK --- Article 2. Al-Ahram Weekly Netanyahu and the Arab spring Abdel-Moneim Said 9 - 15 June 20