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...end the turmoil that has roiled this country for nearly two years since the uprising that ousted authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak. Many Egyptians, especially the tens of millions who live in extreme poverty, had hoped the new constitution might...
...both Israel and Egypt to lift all border restrictions.In 2007, Israel and Morsi's pro-Western predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, sealed the territory, banning virtually all travel and trade. Israel eased its restriction somewhat in 2010 in...
...change and hope in Egypt, the most populous nation in the Arab world. The autocrat who had ruled for three decades, Hosni Mubarak, had to resign in the face of massive protests by a people who were tired of being silenced and brutalized. A broad-based...
...imposition of Islamic law. That could partly explain why the secular generals who took over from ousted President Hosni Mubarak 16 months ago will not relinquish their hold on most levers of power.Less than a week after he was declared winner...
...political unrest in Egypt, we'll see a standing army empowered by American taxes. We supported the 30-year tyranny of Hosni Mubarak with more than $30 billion. And in March the Obama administration released $1.3 billion more despite the new government's...
...disciplined Muslim Brotherhood; in 2011, the Brotherhood expelled him.Long banned from politics under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, the Brotherhood is now running its own candidate, Mohammed Morsi, via its new political-front group, the Freedom...
...group controls everything, the parliament and president, then we go back to the old way like (deposed President Hosni) Mubarak," said house painter Shaaban Abdullah. "We need balance."Even more common was the complaint of carpenter Saad...
The following editorial first appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday: Hosni Mubarak, the longtime president of Egypt and personification of corruption in that country, went on trial Wednesday in a televised proceeding...
...arose from local circumstances that don't foretell what will happen anywhere else." Three weeks later, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak fell, and the Arab Spring was in full bloom.This brings me to the subject of today's column: A confession of...