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Articles of the author Khaled Dawoud
New battle lines
Friday 15 March saw the Press Syndicate's second attempt to elect a new chairman and half of the syndicate's 12 member board. An earlier attempt on 1 March failed to secure the 50 per cent turnout required for a quorum leading to a two-week postponement of the ballot. Last Friday only 25 per cent (...)

20 - 03 - 2013
Waiting for a winner
One key challenge likely to face members of the Press Syndicate when they meet to elect a new chairman on 1 March will be meeting the 50 per cent quorum required for a vote. Half of the syndicate's 7,400 members will need to attend the General Assembly. Should they fail to garner a quorum a second (...)

27 - 02 - 2013
Battle of the paper vote
After the Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Saturday to reject a last-minute appeal to suspend the elections at the Press Syndicate for its president and half of its board members, due on 1 March, campaigns by the two main candidates for the top post, and nearly 50 candidates competing for six (...)

20 - 02 - 2013
Huge rally at the palace
When young members of several leftist, liberal and nationalist parties, now supposedly united in the National Salvation Front (NSF), met early this week to announce plans to hold demonstrations in front of the presidential palace in Heliopolis on Tuesday, their leaders, all in their late 60s and (...)

05 - 12 - 2012
United but divided
It took leaders of key liberal and leftist parties only a few hours to lash out at President Mohamed Morsi's latest series of constitutional and legal decrees. They immediately decided to form the National Salvation Front (NSF), whose main aim is to force the president to nullify the laws that gave (...)

28 - 11 - 2012
Bloody anniversary
Until Al-Ahram Weekly went to press, clashes continued unabated between police and protesters in Tahrir Square and the nearby Mohamed Mahmoud Street, while participants called for a bigger demonstration on Friday 23 November against what they described as ongoing police brutality. Demonstrations (...)

21 - 11 - 2012
Mediating the constitution
Leading non-Islamist members of the Constituent Assembly continue to threaten a collective pullout should the ruling Muslim Brotherhood group and their ultra-conservative allies in the Salafist Nour Party insist on rushing the process of approving the draft constitution and including articles they (...)

14 - 11 - 2012
A push for consensus
A month before the deadline for finishing the draft constitution President Mohamed Morsi met with former presidential rivals Amr Moussa, Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabahi. The meeting earlier this week was the first time Morsi had sat with his rivals since being elected. Morsi also plans (...)

10 - 11 - 2012
A change in chants
Secular parties have decided to turn the debate over a new constitution into the decisive battle with the Muslim Brotherhood, reports Khaled Dawoud "Bread, freedom and social justice", was one of the key slogans chanted by millions of Egyptians during their revolt against Hosni Mubarak when he was (...)

25 - 10 - 2012
Taking offence
Recent blasphemy cases raise concerns among local and international human rights groups over limits on freedom of expression, reports Khaled Dawoud The last thing Nevine Al-Sayed, a social studies teacher in a village near Assiut, expected was that she would be accused of blasphemy by one of her (...)

04 - 10 - 2012
Defending freedoms
Intellectuals, journalists, artists and human rights activists denounce the new draft constitution as regressive, reports Khaled Dawoud As discussions over drafting a new constitution seemed to be drawing to a close proposed articles relating to freedom of expression, creativity and belief have (...)

27 - 09 - 2012
Getting it together
Liberal and leftist political parties are reorganising their ranks to face what they see as a threat to the civil nature of the state by the Muslim Brotherhood, writes Khaled Dawoud A lengthy series of meetings were held this week among dozens of liberal, nationalist, leftist and radical parties in (...)

06 - 09 - 2012
Summary justice
A presidential committee will "very soon" recommend the release of "a reasonable number" of civilians who faced military trials, reports Khaled Dawoud Since taking office earlier this month pressure has been mounting on President Mohamed Mursi to release civilians -- no less than 2,165 according to (...)

19 - 07 - 2012
Turned down
The court's ruling to overturn the president's decision to reinstate the dissolved parliament sparked heated debate, reports Khaled Dawoud The majority of Egypt's judges reacted angrily to President Mohamed Mursi's sudden decision on Sunday to reinstate the parliament that was dissolved by the (...)

12 - 07 - 2012
Decision time
The fates of the presidential elections and parliament hang in the balance, writes Khaled Dawoud The neo-Pharaonic headquarters of the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) overlooking the River Nile in Maadi has been surrounded since late Tuesday by hundreds of heavily armed soldiers and police, (...)

14 - 06 - 2012
Divided as ever
Protests in Tahrir are unlikely to stop the presidential election process. Instead they will highlight the deep divisions and mistrust between the Muslim Brotherhood and secular political parties, writes Khaled Dawoud The response to calls for mass demonstrations in Tahrir on Friday, 1 June, to (...)

07 - 06 - 2012
A nation polarised
The next two and a half weeks are crucial in determining Egypt's future after the first round of presidential elections left Egyptians deeply divided, reports Khaled Dawoud "When [former President Hosni] Mubarak dies, [presidential candidate Ahmed] Shafik will marry his widow, Suzanne, and Gamal (...)

31 - 05 - 2012
Squeaky clean
To avoid mass protests at the results the presidential elections must be demonstrably free of irregularities, reports Khaled Dawoud Tahrir Square was largely deserted on Friday despite a call by several radical youth groups for yet another demonstration demanding former members of the Mubarak (...)

24 - 05 - 2012
The last stretch
In six days Egypt elects a president in the first free election for a head of state in its history. Alone, the vote will not restore stability, writes Khaled Dawoud Cairo's skyline has changed. Hundreds of billboards placed on the roofs of buildings exhort Egyptians to vote for one of the 13 (...)

17 - 05 - 2012
Saving the poor
Khaled Ali, the youngest presidential candidate, translates in word and spirit the principles of the 25 January Revolution: bread, freedom and social justice. Yet, he is unlikely to win in the elections, writes Khaled Dawoud Khaled Ali, a human rights lawyer and labour activist, was nearly the last (...)

10 - 05 - 2012
Showdown in Abbasiya
Despite claims by Muslim Brotherhood MPs and human rights groups that the army used excessive force to disperse a one-week sit-in close to the Defence Ministry in Cairo, public opinion has largely supported the move, reports Khaled Dawoud There were plenty of signs that the one-week standoff in the (...)

10 - 05 - 2012
Presidency poll on time
SCAF confirms presidential elections will take place 23 May, but heated debate continues over the drafting of the constitution that will define the new president's powers, reports Khaled Dawoud The headquarters of the Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) on the vital Salah Salem Road in (...)

19 - 04 - 2012
Confrontation over conciliation
The Muslim Brotherhood remains defiant after the exclusion of prominent leader Khairat El-Shater from the presidential race, reports Khaled Dawoud Shortly after the Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) announced Tuesday evening that the Muslim Brotherhood's deputy supreme guide, Khairat (...)

19 - 04 - 2012
El-Baradei returns
After pulling out of Egypt's presidential race, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed El-Baradei and his supporters have decided to form a new political party to defend the goals of the 25 January Revolution, reports Khaled Dawoud Hours before the 2pm deadline on Sunday to register as a candidate in (...)

12 - 04 - 2012
Out in the cold?
Liberals and leftists vow to continue their protests at the Islamist monopoly over drafting a new constitution, reports Khaled Dawoud Supporters of more than 20 political parties and coalitions, mainly liberals and leftists, marched from Tahrir Square to parliament yesterday to oppose what they see (...)

29 - 03 - 2012
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