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Articles of the author Gamal Essam El Din
The on-off trial
When the retrial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak began in April the defendant appeared in court smiling and waving to supporters from inside his cage. The smile cost Mubarak dear: the prosecutor-general appointed by Islamist President Mohamed Morsi ordered Mubarak to be transferred from the Maadi (...)

15 - 05 - 2013
Up in arms
In a stormy Shura Council session on Tuesday Islamist MPs from the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Wasat Party and Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya's Reconstruction and Development Party teamed up to protest against the postponement of discussion of proposed amendments to the 1972 (...)

15 - 05 - 2013
Egyptian lawmakers raise income tax rates for higher earners
Lawmakers approved on Monday the changing of Egypt's tax law so that more taxpayers are included in the top band of tax, a rate of 25 percent. After the changes, those with incomes of LE250,000 will be required to pay the 25 percent rate; previously, the rate was only for those earning more than (...)

13 - 05 - 2013
A disappointing reshuffle
The Muslim Brotherhood emerged as the biggest winner from this week's cabinet reshuffle, with at least five members of the group or those allied with it joining the government in the reshuffle, raising its share of cabinet portfolios in the government of Prime Minister Hisham Kandil from seven to (...)

07 - 05 - 2013
Brotherhood ups the ante against judges
Tension within the Islamist-dominated upper house, the Shura Council, which has gone on for two weeks, is not expected to ease soon. The council is scheduled to hold plenary meetings next Monday and Tuesday, and it is likely that the controversial amendments to the judicial authority law proposed (...)

07 - 05 - 2013
More of the same
In a television interview with the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera 10 days ago President Mohamed Morsi said a cabinet reshuffle would be announced soon. A presidential spokesman said on Tuesday that the upcoming reshuffle has not yet been finalised but will be announced in the next few days. He also (...)

01 - 05 - 2013
Judges resist Brotherhood intervention
President Mohamed Morsi met on Sunday with members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) in an attempt to defuse a growing dispute over amendments to the 1972 law regulating the judicial authority. According to SJC Chairman Mohamed Metwalli, the meeting concluded with a decision to hold a “justice (...)

30 - 04 - 2013
Judgement day
On Wednesday the Shura Council began discussing amendments to the law regulating the performance of judicial authority (Law 46/1972). The move follows a hostile campaign against judges led by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and its ally, the Wasat Party. Islamist deputies (...)

24 - 04 - 2013
Legal requirements
Two laws, one regulating the election of the House of Representatives, the second the exercise of political rights, were sent to the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) on Sunday. The two laws were approved by the Shura Council on 11 April after three days of debate. According to Article 177 of the (...)

17 - 04 - 2013
Of dictators and dye
The first hearing of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's trial in August 2011 saw millions of Egyptians glued to their television screens. Two years on and Mubarak's retrial could not present a greater contrast. Against a backdrop of ongoing political instability and a teetering economy it has excited (...)

16 - 04 - 2013
Putting the House in order
The Islamist-dominated Shura Council — Egypt's upper house of parliament currently endowed with legislative powers — rushed on Tuesday to open an article-by-article discussion of a new law aimed at regulating the elections of the House of Representatives, Egypt's lower house. The draft was referred (...)

09 - 04 - 2013
Five years on
The Islamist-dominated Shura Council — Egypt's upper house of parliament currently endowed with legislative powers — rushed on Tuesday to open an article-by-article discussion of a new law aimed at regulating the elections of the House of Representatives, Egypt's lower house. The draft was referred (...)

09 - 04 - 2013
Muslim Brotherhood defends interior minister
The dominant majority of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) deputies in the Shura Council teamed up Tuesday to reject dismissing Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim from his position. They even refused to lay blame with Ibrahim for using tear gas against Copts inside the main (...)

09 - 04 - 2013
Back to the future
Muslim Brotherhood deputies and their Islamist allies on the Shura Council teamed up on Monday and Tuesday to approve the wholesale amendment of a 1956 law regulating the exercise of political rights. The changes were introduced by the government after the Administrative Court last month ruled that (...)

02 - 04 - 2013
Two draconian laws
The Islamist-dominated Shura Council — Egypt's Upper House of parliament — rushed on Tuesday to approve, in principle, two controversial government-drafted laws regulating parliamentary elections and protests. The first legislation, an amendment of the 1972 law on the People's Assembly and the 1956 (...)

27 - 03 - 2013
Election ping pong
Constitutional and legal obstacles must still be overcome before Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood can set a date for parliamentary elections. On 6 March the Administrative Court ordered that parliamentary polls would have to be delayed until the Supreme Constitutional (...)

20 - 03 - 2013
Out with the old
The Shura Council is rushing to issue a new election law after the Administrative Court ruled on 6 March that parliamentary polls would have to be delayed until the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled on amendments forced through the Shura Council after an earlier, controversial election law (...)

13 - 03 - 2013
Playing the security card
When Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was elected at the end of June last year he said restoring security on the streets was his top priority. Eight months later Egypt is in the grip of a severe security crisis. The non-Islamist opposition, led by the secular National Salvation Front (NSF), has (...)

12 - 03 - 2013
Blow to Morsi, Brotherhood
While the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi hails from, was quickly preparing for the upcoming parliamentary elections, a judicial court ruling on 6 March took it by surprise. Cairo's Administrative Court said parliamentary polls, scheduled at the end (...)

07 - 03 - 2013
A predictable scramble
Candidate registration for parliamentary elections is scheduled to begin on Saturday and, according to Samir Abul-Maati, chairman of the Supreme Elections Committee (SEC), “will remain open until 16 March”. Then, “beginning on 18 March, the SEC and Administrative Justice Courts will take charge of (...)

06 - 03 - 2013
Less haste, more speed
After a two hour debate on 21 February the Islamist-dominated Shura Council approved amendments to Law 38/1972 on the People's Assembly and Law 73/1956 on the exercise of political rights. The changes were ratified by President Mohamed Morsi on the same day, paving the way for parliamentary (...)

27 - 02 - 2013
Back to boycott politics
President Mohamed Morsi's decision to proceed with parliamentary elections without first addressing the concerns of the non-Islamist opposition triggered a furious reaction from the National Salvation Front (NSF), a coalition including liberal, leftist and nationalist forces. On Tuesday the NSF (...)

27 - 02 - 2013
Electoral impasse
Holding parliamentary elections has become a complex issue. On 18 February the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) judged 10 articles in the Shura Council approved draft laws regulating the ballot unconstitutional. The SCC's judgement throws a massive spanner in the works. The Shura Council met on (...)

20 - 02 - 2013
Wiping clean the rubber stamp
The Shura Council's Legislative Affairs and Human Rights Committee on Monday began discussing the government-drafted protest law. Members of the committee promised the controversial legislation would be the subject of “national dialogue” before it is ratified in a Shura Council plenary meeting (...)

20 - 02 - 2013
Crimes of intimidation
During an 11 February meeting of the Shura Council's Human Rights Committee, Muslim Brotherhood deputies claimed that Tahrir Square — birthplace of the 25 January Revolution — was “a hotbed of prostitution, rape and sexual harassment”. The committee's deputy chairman, Muslim Brotherhood MP Ezzeddin (...)

13 - 02 - 2013
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