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Five years of the Egyptian Revolution - World Socialist Web Site
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Five years after the eruption of mass revolutionary struggles in Egypt that led to the ouster of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak, the counterrevolutionary military junta headed by General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi fears another social explosion.

In the lead-up to today’s anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution, the regime intensified its brutal crackdown against workers and youth. According to the Associated Press, police raided 5,000 apartments in downtown Cairo in recent days as a “precautionary measure” to ensure that Egyptians do not return to the streets. Throughout the country, hundreds of thousands of heavily armed security officers, police and soldiers will be deployed.

#égypte #révoltes_arabes

Sissi nominé pour le prix Nobel de la paix 2015 "pour avoir sauvé les Egyptiens d’un danger imminent le 30 juin" , lui qui a “combattu le terrorisme et la violence en changeant l’idéologie des extrémistes et en déracinant les idées qui conduisent au sectarisme.”

CAIRO: The United Nations Organization for Arts (UNARTS) office in the Middle East has nominated Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize “for his efforts in spreading peace, saving Egyptians from imminent danger in June 30.”

In a Sunday statement, the UNARTS office for Africa Middle East said the nomination comes as “President Sisi has been battling terrorism and combating the threat of violence in the region by changing the ideology of extremists and uprooting every idea leads to sectarian strife.”

The nomination was submitted to the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee in Stockholm, UNARTS head office in New York and other UNARTS’s regional offices across the globe, Director of the UNARTS in Africa and Middle East Nabil Rizk was quoted by Youm7 Wednesday.

“Based on his insight on best ways to fight terrorism globally, his concern for humanitarian issues including supporting people of special needs and fighting corruption, President Sisi is a well-deserved nominee for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize,” said the statement.

So far, the Nobel Committee has received 276 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015. 49 of these are organizations, and 227 are persons.

Since he assumed power in June 2014, Sisi has been repeatedly calling for a “religious revolution” against extremism and terrorism.

Egypt’s former President Anwar al-Sadat and Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin were awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize shortly after signing the Camp David peace treaty in September 1978.

Sisi nominated for 2015 Nobel Peace Prize | Cairo Post
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#egypte#repression#nobel#paix

Enrico Macias to hold live concert in Cairo to promote tourism | Egypt Independent/ Sun, 23/11/2014
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Al-Masry Al-Youm
French singer Enrico Macias plans to hold a live concert in Cairo on 26 November to promote tourism in Egypt, coinciding with President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s visit to Paris next week.

Macias was invited to hold his concert in Egypt by a number of NGOs.

Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou, who met with Macias in France recently during a visit to promote tourism, will attend the concert. Macias had called on Zaazou to be Egypt’s tourism ambassador to the world and the minister welcomed his offer.

Around 2,000 people will attend the concert including former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghaly, deputy head of Alexandria Library Ali Maher and the French ambassador to Egypt.

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Enrico Macias se bat pour garder sa maison
Publié le 10.08.2014
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Le chanteur de 75 ans se produit dimanche soir au Festival de Ramatuelle. Il revient sur le conflit financier avec une banque islandaise qui a failli lui faire tout perdre.

Donc #el-Sissi est le “nouveau Nasser”,

Egypt: Hamas ’could have saved dozens of lives’ with truce | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR
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CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign minister said Thursday that Hamas could have saved dozens of lives if it had accepted a Cairo-mediated truce earlier this week in its conflict with Israel.

“Had Hamas accepted the Egyptian proposal, it could have saved the lives of at least 40 Palestinians,” Sameh Shoukri said, quoted by state news agency MENA.

Sisi « regrets » #Egypt jailing of Jazeera journalists
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he wished three jailed #Al_Jazeera journalists including an Australian had never been tried, in an expression of regret relatives described as encouraging on Monday. Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohammed were sentenced to between seven and 10 years in jail on charges of defaming Egypt and aiding banned Islamists, in a ruling that sparked a global outcry and demands for a presidential pardon. read more

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Working Together Separately
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That alliance has deepened since the fall of Mubarak. No one was more furious at Obama’s betrayal of a loyal client than the Israelis – well, no one except the Saudis. Not only had Mubarak been a redoubtable ally against Iran and Hamas; he had protected Egypt from the Muslim Brotherhood, an organisation seen by Riyadh and the UAE as a force of subversion throughout the Gulf. The Saudis are religious but they are not sentimental. Given a choice between a dependable secular autocrat like Mubarak and an Islamic populist movement with regional ambitions that might challenge their own, they have always chosen the former. Since the fall of Ben-Ali in Tunisia, the Saudis have fought the wave of insurrectionary movements by supporting conservative religious forces, particularly Salafi groups, and by stirring up sectarian tension.
Israel, too, prefers autocratic neighbours: countering Arab populism has been a pillar of its foreign policy since 1948. It has also tried to stoke sectarian tension in the Arab and Muslim world, supporting Maronite influence in Lebanon and encouraging irredentist groups in Iran and Iraq. But Israel’s ability to influence the domestic politics of Arab countries is limited. It cheered on General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi when he threw out Morsi, suspended the constitution and accused Hamas of trying to destabilise Egypt – as the Americans discovered when they tried in vain to restrain the Egyptian army, the generals and Israel were in constant contact during the coup – but couldn’t offer much in the way of material support. It was left to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to step in with extravagant offers of assistance, while urging Sisi to show the Brothers no mercy. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, pro-Israel lobbyists fought any attempt to suspend military aid to the Egyptian generals. One former American official with excellent ties to the Saudis called it a ‘game of charades, with communication between the players by mime’.
The Israelis and Saudis played the game well – much better than Obama, whose grudging acceptance of the coup has not prevented him from being vilified in Cairo by the military regime’s supporters. (The posters in Cairo of Obama with a jihadi beard look much like the racist caricatures of ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ that used to run in right-wing Israeli tabloids.) Indeed, one could argue that Israel and Saudi Arabia are now closer to each other in their views of the region than either of them is to the United States. The Saudi-Israeli support for the coup in Egypt challenges a central tenet of American policy in the Middle East: that stable government and peace depend on democracy. US support for democratisation is of course limited, and contingent on alignment with American objectives, but in principle the US has supported the integration of Islamist parties. The Americans were not in cahoots with the Brothers, contrary to the rumours in Cairo, but they fear that Sisi’s crackdown will drive Egypt’s Islamists toward violence, and that America might become a target. It is not an unreasonable fear.