I forgot to post this last week, but readers may be interested in reading a letter by Ayman Nour’s family to mark the one-year anniversary of the 2005 presidential elections, in which he came a distant second from Hosni Mubarak and most probably caused him to be sentenced to jail on 25 December of the [...]

That Amr Hamzawy — he’s so hot right now (you have watched Zoolander, haven’t you?):
This widening ideological divide between ruling elites and oppositions will make it more difficult to adopt political reform measures, which require at least some consensus and flexibility on both sides. More troubling is that the positions of putatively democratic Arab opposition [...]

Press reports today say imprisoned Ghad party leader Ayman Nour has been hospitalized and will undergo heart surgery within a few days.

As with every single posting Baheyya writes, this is a must read…

Dr. Osama al-Ghazali Harb, political pundit and editor of Al-Siyassa Al-Dawliya, is to hold a press conference on the launching of his new political party in Egypt on Sunday, 16 July, 11am at the Shepherd Hotel in downtown Cairo, according to a press release I received.
Harb, a former member of the NDP’s Policies’ Secretariat, resigned [...]

Ibrahim 3eissa, the popular liberal editor of Al-Dostour, has been sentenced today to one year in prison, for “insulting” the president in an article he published April last year, that included a copy of a lawsuit filed by an Egyptian lawyer against President Hosni Mubarak and his family.
The court sentenced also another Al-Dostour reporter, Sahar [...]