Abdallah Schleifer
By Abdallah Schleifer
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Opinion Andrew Pochter Is Killed — as Egypt Burns
The first Egyptian police report described Andrew Driscoll Pochter as an American and a photojournalist. The 21-year-old student from suburban Maryland was not identified as being Jewish because we Americans, unlike Egyptians, do not carry government IDs that identify our religion. That in itself is a great relief and advantage when living or visiting countries…
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Breaking News Amid Swirl of History, Egypt Steps Back From Brink of Chaos
Only hours before Egypt learned that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi had won the presidential election, feverish rumors swept across Cairo’s more fashionable districts. After days of delay, word on the street was that Ahmed Shafik, Morsi’s main rival and a member of Hosni Mubarak’s old guard, was poised to be declared the winner of…
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News As Mubarak Lies in Coma, Egyptians Warily Await Election Results
It’s 2 a.m. Wednesday morning and nearly everybody here in Cairo, if they are still awake, wonders how it will all go down. As Egypt’s ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak lies dead or dying, official results of the final round of voting for president will not be announced by the Electoral Commission until Thursday at the…
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Israel News Egypt Confronts Its Unfinished Revolution
Shortly before the recent outbreak of violence in Tahrir Square, a friend fantasized about what he would do if he had a time machine with two buttons, one labeled “Back to Mubarak,” the other labeled “Stay the course.” This decent, eminent professional — a tear-gassed veteran of the original Tahrir Square protests that ousted autocrat…
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Breaking News Blogging Egypt’s Uprising
Egypt Parties Down, Amid Possible Clouds on the Horizon February 11, 2011, 6:35 p.m. Most of the protesters and the vast outpouring of supporters who filled adjacent squares and side streets to Tahrir and the main streets of large middle class neighborhoods in northern Cairo like Masr Gadida stayed up for much of the night…
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News Egypt’s Other, Overshadowed Revolt Is a Demand for Economic Justice
There are really two revolts going on here in Egypt. The first and most publicized abroad and, to a lesser degree, even here, is a revolt for a free political system — the release of political prisoners, a free press, constitutional reform that would allow free and fair elections and set limits on time spent…
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