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|  The times they are a changin
Of the dozens who filed nomination papers, zero independents and 10 party leaders won the autonomous Presidential Election Commission’s seal of approval to contest the nation’s first direct, multi-candidate presidential election.Meet the men who would be president.
AFTER YEARS in the deep freeze, Egypt’s newly thawed-out political scene might best be likened to a three-ring political circus — one each for the three leading political parties, complemented by at least seven sideshow acts. Together, they offer a heady cocktail of drama, tension and giggles unlikely to disappoint.
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Azza Khattab
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The young turks |
The Buttons to Push | Three years after being hand-picked by Gamal Mubarak to join his powerful Policy Secretariat, liberal reformers at the ruling National Democratic Party angle to shore up democracy from within the establishment before, during and after Egypt’s first multi-party presidential contest.
IWAS AWARE that I was on the brink of an action that would lead to a crisis. I had been thinking deeply about it until the last moment. Finally, I dec
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Noha El-Hennawy
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Read more | Egyptians are chewing over so many issues, that presidential candidates may not even know where to start when it comes to pinpointing the key issues that will win them votes. Ahead of the first-ever presidential elections this month, experts and analysts speak out on which buttons candidates need to push to get voters to the polls.
If this were a referendum we are about to carry out, I would be on the North Coast with my wife right now. As it happens, I’m here in my office w
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Manal el-Jesri
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 | With You in Spirit
Public endorsements of candidates by both Coptic, Catholic and Muslim clergy and the suspension of a controversial priest stoked the debate last month about the power religious institutions wield in this month’s presidential elections — and raised new questions about the separation of religion and the state
By Noha El-Hennawy
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 | Death on the Coast
The tragic death of a 35-year-old mother of two raises questions about the safety of events organized on the North Coast
By Rania Al Malky
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 | From ‘Citizens’ to ‘Voters’
Promises and slogans washed over the Egyptian public last month aspresidential candidates, in the throes of the first free multi-candidate elections for the nation’s top office, competed for votes. A look at how it all unfolded.
By Rania Al Malky
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