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Sharif Abdel Kouddous
On the 60th Anniversary of the Coup
![[Celebrations began after Mohamed Morsi's victory of the presidential elections in Egypt this past month. Image originally posted to Flickr by Johnathan Rashad.]](/content_images/3/sm_7435397148_cf1821036f.jpg "[Celebrations began after Mohamed Morsi's victory of the presidential elections in Egypt this past month. Image originally posted to Flickr by Johnathan Rashad.]")
The inauguration of the country’s first elected president on 30 June was meant to mark the final step in the country’s so-called “transition,” with a long-heralded handover of power from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to a civilian government, complete with an elected parliament and a new constitution. Instead, a year and a half after the revolution began, astonishingly little has been accomplished with regard to laying down the foundations of a post-Hosni Mubarak ...
Keep Reading »Meet the Head of Egypt's Presidential Election Commission
![[Building of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, in Cairo. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_supremeconstitutionalcourt.JPG "[Building of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, in Cairo. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
Egypt is gearing up for the final stages of a tumultuous transitional period under the rule of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) and preparing to enter a new phase following a scheduled handover of government authority to a newly-elected president at the end of June. The much-anticipated presidential vote is scheduled to be held on 23 and 24 May to elect Egypt's first president since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in a popular uprising one year ago. The man in charge ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's New War of Information
The war of information in Egypt — one that has been at the heart of this revolution since its inception — is escalating. On one side, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), and the institutions it rules over, are making twin use of a fully compliant state media apparatus to demonize the protest movement and champion SCAF policies while intensifying a crackdown on dissent, attacking journalists and raiding civil society organizations. On the other, ...
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Sharif Abdel Kouddous is an independent journalist based in Cairo. He is a correspondent for the TV/radio show Democracy Now! and a fellow at the Nation Institute.
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