Unrest in Egypt
Follow Reuters' coverage as a wave of unrest grips Egypt
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Ayman Nofal (C), a top Hamas armed commander, is greeted by Hamas supporters upon his arrival to his home in Nusairat in the Central Gaza strip February 5, 2011. A senior Hamas commander returned to the Gaza Strip on Saturday after breaking out of a Cairo jail during the political upheaval in Egypt, sources in the Palestinian Islamist movement said. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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In the first clear test of how long his opponents can keep up their momentum, President Mubarak's government is hoping to get people back to work on Sunday with the reopening of banks and businesses. www.reuters.com
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take a look at this images from inside Tahrir SQ vimeo.com -
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In Nick Kristof's Sunday column for the New York Times, he argues that Americans are too worried about democracy going awry in Egypt. www.nytimes.com
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Safwat el-Sherif, Secretary-General of the ruling National Democratic Party, speaks in this May 9, 2010 file photo. The leadership of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party resigned on February 5, 2011, state TV said. The outgoing leaders include Sherif, 77, who has been powerful in the Egyptian establishment since the 1960s. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Gamal Mubarak, the head of the higher political committee of the National Democratic Party (NDP), attends the 29th death anniversary of late President Anwar al-Sadat in Cairo in this October 6, 2010 file photo. The leadership of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party resigned on February 5, 2011, including Gamal Mubarak, the son of President Hosni Mubarak. Without a place in the leadership, Gamal Mubarak will no longer qualify as the party's presidential candidate under the existing constitution. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Andrew Rawnsley from the Observer discusses how the West should embrace democracy in Egypt. bit.ly -
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Analysis of the U.S. and Egypt’s diplomatic relations by David E. Sanger from the New York Times. www.nytimes.com
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Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has lent his support to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Cheney said Mubarak is "a good man" and a strong friend of the United States, but said the Egyptian people will decide his fate as leader.
"He's been a good man, he's been a good friend and ally to the United States, and we need to remember that," Cheney said during a question-and-answer session at a tribute to former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
"In the end whatever comes next is going to be decided by the Egyptian people," he said. uk.reuters.com -
Egypt's banks are beginning to open their doors again after a week-long closure due to the protests. Reuters' Patrick Werr and Marwa Awad report steady streams of employees flowing into Cairo's financial district and customers queuing to access their accounts on Sunday. uk.reuters.com
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My colleague Patrick Werr writes: "Egypt's central bank said it was not setting an Egyptian pound reference rate for the dollar in the interbank market ahead of the market opening on Sunday.
"A banker had earlier said the bank had set a reference rate for the pound at 5.90 to the dollar, compared to 5.855 to the dollar before banks closed for one week because of political protests." -
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"It is impossible to overstate the angst, even hysteria, that Israelis are feeling about their neighborhood as they watch what is unfolding in the streets of Cairo," writes Aaron David Miller in the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com
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Michael Levy, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's special envoy to the Middle East, tells the BBC's Andrew Marr show that in his opinion Mubarak will certainly have to step down, the only question is when. Mubarak's son, Gamal, will not take over, he adds.
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The Independent's Robert Fisk writes that Mubarak is on the cusp of a final departure. "The old man is going. The resignation last night of the leadership of the ruling Egyptian National Democratic Party – including Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal – will not appease those who want to claw the President down. But they will get their blood. The whole vast edifice of power which the NDP represented in Egypt is now a mere shell, a propaganda poster with nothing behind it." www.independent.co.uk
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Egypt's Minister of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, tells the BBC's Andrew Marr that President Mubarak's state of mind is "fine". Mubarak wants to stay, and the majority of Egyptian people would like him to stay. Egypt needs a smooth transition of power and the only man who can do that is President Mubarak, he adds.
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The UK Foreign Secretary is also on this morning's Andrew Marr show (BBC). William Hague says Britain and other nations do not have the right to choose Egypt's President, but we are allowed to protest at mobile phone networks being blocked and physical abuse of protesters.
The process of change is what matters, not that it happens on a particular date, he adds. -
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John Simpson, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says the crisis in Egypt has revolutionary parallels with Iran and China. www.telegraph.co.uk
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Reuters' Marwa Awad tells us that attendees of the meeting led by Egypt's Vice-President include members of secular opposition parties, independent legal experts and business tycoon Naguib Sawiris. A representative of opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei was also there.
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Some 341 bank branches, including 152 in Cairo, are opening across Egypt. There is talk on Twitter of long queues after the week-long closure. uk.reuters.com
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The U.S. is fighting mixed messages on Egypt, writes Reuters' Andrew Quinn.
"U.S. officials insist their message on the Egypt crisis has been unwavering: President Hosni Mubarak must allow political transition, and he must do it now.
"But Washington is having a much trickier time defining what that transition might look like, how long it will last and whom it might involve. All this has sown public doubt about what the real U.S. strategy is to deal with a crisis that threatens to upend decades of U.S. policy in the Middle East." uk.reuters.com -
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The problem we face in the US is that we only see the Middle East through on lense, one prism..that is Israel's security. This has been very costly for us and even for the Israelis, not to mention to the Arab people. We criticize the Arabs for the things that we do not want for them: Freedom, democracy, tolerance...Take a look at the coverage by US news of what transpired in Tunisia and Egypt..pretty shameful and counterproductive. Smplistic views of Islamists taking over and Mullah's running the show are pretty pathetic and are only geared to instilling fear and alienating the America public for the geniune shout for freedom among the youth of the Arab World. The upshot will be that the US will again lose whatever is left of its prestige in the Arab world, and Israel is not also helped either with this attitude and approach. Solution: We need a brave leadership in the US and in Europe..we need leaders who are willing to call it as they see it. We have a chance to make amends for our mistakes and to finally find a solution for the Palestinian Dilemma, which will go a long way to help and heal this region and the US relationship with the Arab world and the emerging world in general. But, do we have the leaders or leader that have such courage? I frankly doubt it.
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Egypt's state television has broadcast footage of Vice President Omar Suleiman holding talks with opposition groups including the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood. The pictures show Suleiman chairing the meeting at government offices in central Cairo, with a portrait of President Mubarak hanging behind him.
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The BBC is reporting that carnival atmosphere is back on in Tahrir square with woman and children joining in, but there is also a renewed sense of determination. www.bbc.co.uk
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