Well, it was too good to last. The dream of a democratic Middle East has run into the stony wall of reality, if not totally shattered. After a dream run that has seen four of the most powerful men plucked out of their mighty citadels even as they desperately fought back to hang on in there at any price, the Arab Spring seems to be encountering some real rough weather and nasty storms. 

One year on, the diabolic doctor in Damascus is trying ha...

Are Islam and its followers– to the United States of America – what a red rag is to an inebriated bull?

Does the schizophrenic America change leaderships in foreign countries which it deems uncomfortable for its hegemonistic objectives?

Does the power-drunk Washington stage coups in foreign lands to further its unwritten commitment to its much-denied Pax-Americana?

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Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Aati, ‘Mohamed Morsi for President’ campaign coordinator, said the campaign now has the official records from all polling stations, as well as final results collected separately from each of Egypt’s 27 provinces.
At a news conference on June 19, Abdel Aati said that counting and tabulation of ballots has ended in 13,099 voting sites, i.e. 100% of the sites where voting took place. Dr. Mohamed Morsi won 13,012,405 votes. He also won 225,893 votes, from Eg...

The lawyer Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maksoud, Chairman of the Legal Committee of presidential candidate Dr. Mohamed Morsi’s campaign, confirmed that the campaign’s legal team on June 20 discussed 134 electoral complaints it made to the Supreme Presidential Elections Committee (SPEC).

Abdel-Maksoud pointed out that all complaints discussed by the campaign’s legal team were related to irregularities and violations that marred the electoral process and reported by Dr. Morsi&rs...

Mukhtar Ashri, Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), on June 19 affirmed that his party is considering legal ways to deal with the ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) and statements made recently by its president on the unconstitutionality of some articles of the law of parliamentary elections. The FJP, Ashri added, may submit an interpretation, clarification or reconsideration request or, alternatively, it may submit an interpretation to be pres...