Egypt Mubarak-era minister jailed for corruption

An Egyptian court on Sunday had Hosni Mubarak Cabinet minister decreed to three years in jail after declaring him of corruption.

A businessman and used to be tourism Minister Zohair Garanah has recently been executing a five-year jail term for enabling investors to illegally own state land. His first decree was passed by the Cairo court on the 10^th of May.

The Egyptian law states, he will render active service the longer of two sentences.

Garanah's most recent conviction came immediately after the sentencing on Thursday of steel magnate Ahmed Ezz to 10 whole years in jail right after his conviction of corruption. Ezz was a very forceful insider in Mubarak's now-ruined overcoming party and a trustworthy helper to Mubarak's younger son and only one-time heir visibly Gamal.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-09-15/world/30163631_1_ahmed-ezz-gamal-mubarak-ezz-steel

Egypt Revolution

In this article Mubarak step down from his prsidency in February 11, 2011. The mass protests worked as expected in a revolution. In March his military were still loyal to him and that led to more protests and violence. Tahrir Square, were the police and protesters fought violently and 1000 people were injured. The people protested about poverty, corruption and unfair elections of Mubarak's ruling. Many people suffered from this revolution and still fighting for their rights.

In my opinion Mubarak's companions before were still loyal to him after he resigned. Now that the military is in control, their government is still unstable and needs someone who really can rule them that will make their country better. If only people weren't corrupt or dumb there wouldn't people getting hurt.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html

The Egyptian Revolution-Konstantine Petrakis

In January 2011, The people of Eqypt broke into mass protests against the strict rule of President Hosni Mubarak. After losing support from the United States Military, Mubarak resigned ending 30 years of autocratic rule. Things didnt get better though. The military took over. People where still protesting complaining that the military was still loyal toMubarak's government. This lead to many protests in April. I feel that the military is being selfish with the power they have and trying to find ways of not sepparating it into branches of a democrating government as I believe they should. They are only upseting the people further. Mr. Mubarak failed in his duties as president and passed on similar traits to the current militarly rule. He killed protestors and was a corrupt leader! The people of Egypt deserve a say by way of Democracy.

Protests In Cairo Turn Voilent

In this article they talk about how during the revolution, there have been many protests that have turned ugly, such as this one which brought tens of thousands of people to Cairo's City square. they ended up tearing down a wall around the Israeli Embassy. 448 people were injured and 17 were arrested. In my opinion, this means that the egyptians are willing to do anything to anything to keep the revolution moving forward, even if that means, injuring people and wrecking Homes and businesses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/world/middleeast/10egypt.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=egypt%20prostest&st=cse

Egypt Secularists anb Liberals Afraid of Democracy

The Egypt Securalists and Liberals of Democracy is about Maj Gamel Abdel Nasser telling the army officers in a meeting on December 29th, 1952. This is in the country of Egypt in Africa. In the year 1952 Egypt's king Farouk was overthrown by Nasser and he was installed as Egypt's President. This happened because the parliament was dissloved, political parties were banned, basic freedoms were suspended, and the army dominated politics and Egypt lost it's freedom. What happened was that the brutal crackdown became significantly diminished and the local networks never went down til the mid 1970's and it was never destroyed. How it happened was that a stark of contrasts of 1952 of Islamnists are playing the role of the democrats and the liberals are calling the army to stay in power. This happened because the working class, yound, radical and charamastic Maj Gamel Abdel Nasser is 75 yrs old and under field marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi commands the democratic transition with special status of the military.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14112032

Jeffrey Garnes per.2 GO SJSU SAN JOSE STATE SPARTANS !!!!!!

Every Revolution is Different

Much like what the Europeans did in 1848, the Arabs have started a revolution that is consisting of protests on their streets. They've began spreading around their message on their Communists withdrawing of several Soviets supporting dictators. By which, this lead to several changes within the Arab's economy, technology and the demographic views. These sorts of acts have been linked to similarities of the 1848 with several countries wanting to be independent. Examples of these like Hungary and France wanting to break free in order to being independent lead to heatfull protests that made an impact on how much they're willing to fight for their freedom of being self dependent. Which is why the Arabs tend to do the same to have a successfull and peacefull change in their country.

My opinion towards the Arab Revolution is that they should continue fighting for what they believe is right. Everyone should be valid with their own opinion and by not having their own democracy behind their people is an outcray for unpleased citizens of the Arab Community to act quickly and start these protests. This outcom if the Arab Community comes out victorious, can have a serious impact towards other countries just looking for that motivational push towards fighting for their democracy to be on their side.


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Egypt News- Revolution and Aftermath http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html?scp=2&sq=arab%

In January 2011, Egypt, erupted in mass protests. After 18 days of this protesting and loosing the U.S support Mr. Mubarak stepped down in Feburary. That ended 3o years of autocratic rule. The reason for this was to remove him from power and it happened. Throughout many months protests erupted being displeased with the progress. The people wanting elections were scared that a couple groups would get into power. This non political groups assured the people that they did not seek to be in power. Elections were held to reform the goverment. Also Mr. Mubarak is being tried for his brutal ways. Egypt still remains fragile and it will take time and effort for the people to recover from this terrible man. I believe that this is what had to be done and this man was crazy. He deserves to die and not be let free. I hope they find a good government everyone agrees on. That is what i think.

Activists in Arab World Vie to Define Islamic State

In September 30, 2011, ''Activists in Arab World Vie to Define Islamic State'' highlights a debate about governance in the Middle East that has been raging for decades. The Arab Spring has brought it to the forefront, where it should be. It is a turning point of the Arab world. At the center of the debates is a new breed of politician who has risen from an Islamist milieu but accepts an essentially secular state, a current that some scholars have already taken to identifying as ''post Islamist.'' Its foremost exemplars are Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party in Turkey, whose intellectuals speak of a shared experience and a common heritage with some of the younger members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and with the Ennahda Party in Tunisia. Like Turkey, Tunisia faced decades of astate-enforced secularism that never completely reconciled itself with a conservative population.
I think this argument betweeen Islamists is nothing new. It started shortly after Mohammed (PBUH) died and has not ceased since. All major religions have their sects, and it is up to the leadership of the sects to get together and decide what is in the best interest of their core religion. They are all Muslims, and so they need to find a way to resolve differences where they can and accept them where they cannot. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/NewsDetailsPage/NewsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=News&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CA268367545&mode=view

The Great Arab Revolt

The Arab world’s presidents for life and absolute monarchs are quaking in the aftermath of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions. Arab politics had been stuck in a vast logjam for the past thirty years, from which its crowds are now attempting to blast it loose. The protesters put their fingers on the phenomenon of the vampire state and concluded that before anything important could change, they had to put a stake through its heart.Under European colonialism the Middle East had a few decades of classic liberal rule in the first half of the twentieth century. Egypt, Iraq and Iran had elected parliaments, prime ministers and popular parties. However, liberal rule was eventually discredited insofar as it proved to be largely a game played by big landlords overly open to the influence and bribery of grasping Western powers.In Egypt and Tunisia, once the ruling families were gone, the interim governments promptly froze the accounts of regime cronies and in many instances initiated legal proceedings against them. Seeing the writing on the wall, the ambitious resigned en masse from the now notorious former ruling party; the RCD in Tunisia was dissolved altogether.Many among the demonstrators, whether union organizers, villagers or college graduates, seem to believe that once the lead log in the logjam is removed, the economy will return to normal and opportunities for advancement will open up to all. Somewhat touchingly, they have put their hopes in free and fair parliamentary elections, so that the Middle East may be swinging back to a new liberal period, formally resembling that of the 1930s and ’40s. If these aspirations for open politics and economic opportunity are blocked again, as they were by the hacienda owners and Western proconsuls of the mid-twentieth century, the Arab masses may turn to more desperate, and dangerous, alternatives.

My opinion is that anyone cognizant of the polling data from arabs concerning natural rights, women's tights, honor killings, religious tolerance, free trade, and a myriad of other things should know they are not on the verge of a liberal age.If democracy means anything, it means weak corrupt government, and even more democracy is the last thing Arab nations need. More likely if something isn't fixed soon the masses in Arab might become very dangerous and another revolt may be started.

Kristie Aranda(Period 2)
http://www.thenation.com/article/158682/great-arab-revolt

Libya and NATO

In Libya, they have the NATO, that keeps fighting. the NATO is the military in Libya. they are fighting and trying to protect civilians, MR. Panetta is questioning if they have the right to protect them. the NATO secretary general says that the threat for the civilians is going away and is not as bad. In my opinion, i think that you should protect the people in your country no matter what, and should not let them be harmed or die.

by Brook Schultze
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/world/africa/nato-not-yet-willing-to-declare-end-to-libya-operations.html?_r=1&ref=world

Why some Egyptians see military rulers as worse than Mubarak:

Egyptians military leaders are keeping back civil rights. Therefore, the Egyptians are saying that the people who said they would lead a change to Democracy are now becoming more contrary than the previous president Hoshi Mubarak. Hundreds of protesters recently attacked the Isreal embassy so the government enlarged the emergency law to allow military court citizens who participate in strikes to punishment. The repeal of this law was a key factor of the revolution. Mr.Mubarak,during his 30-year term, used it very bluntly. I think that the Egyptians should have the right to protest because they are fighting for what they believe in.

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Libya protest against Qaddafi

Libya an oil rich nation located in africa has been in the midst of a civil war since august. And this due to the fact they do not like the iron fist rule of their dictator qaddafi who is abusing his given power.And since this is a civil war their are supporters of both qaddafi and the rebels bboth have been clashing. And through out the war their has been no sign of qadaffi and many of his servants have been tortued. And now nato has sent airplanes and strikes to help the rebels which have been quite successful. and this force has not been seen since the iraq war. And manyothers have fought to make the government more fair and towards an democracy.

My thoughts are that qaddafi had been an tyrant for 40 years and that many people such as the younger genration where not welcoming this. And just as with the americans the rebels are fighting back with tremendous force and swift moves. And as stated i think they are being quite succesful as they took over his main copound after just a month of fighting. And with the new found freedom they would set up an democracy and then lead the way to an more civilized ANd aquaited government which would not resort to tyrancy. And this oil rich african nation will use resources nad other things to make itself an better place to live for its very own people.

Rohan Khare
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/libya/index.html?scp=1&sq=protests%20in%20libya&st=cse

Yeman-Protests (2011)

Who was the focus of the Revolution? Tunisia is a place where a group of self-sacrificing people turned out to be the ultimate catalyst for a widespread revolution throughout Arabia. The wave began with the Tunisian uprising on December 18^th, and has spread into other regions within Northern Africa and the Middle East. Some protestors are mild and peaceful, but most of them tend to be extremely violent.

What are the Revolution’s protesting about? All of the protestors are in opposition to their corrupt governments and unfair regime.On January 25^th, massive protests broke out in Cairo Egypt, focusing on legal and political issues such as Police brutality, State of Emergency Laws, Lack of free speech, Unemployment, food prices, inflation, etc.

Where do these protests take place? As of now, Cairo has been labeled a “War Zone”, with strong opposition against the demonstrators. The Egyptian Military has been involved to help seek a peaceful ending.

Why do these situations continue to happen? The situation continues to spiral out of control. It is perhaps the most significant revolution in the Middle East, and I believe it is a power struggle.

My opinion is it is like the Hitler Era. He was a Man who gained great power, but killed millions, if not billions of innocent people, and for what. Just to say that he was the Leader of those Countries. People who try to gain that much power and try to fool people into their trickery scares me. It is all just a bunch of lies and rubbish.

By: Brandon Gose

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/yemen/index.html

Libya can now reimagine itself

Libya is trying to make a new identity for itself after 6 months of fighting people are sick of fighting. And their ruler Muammar Qaddafi is no longer their ruler like Obama said. But Libyans have already announced policies of national reconciliation, and set up plans to prevent any more violence .The six months of fighting have given Libyans time to awaken to the possibility of democracy in their country.And they want to have democracy so all people could have equal rights and can have their own elections,their own military rights.And they also have the advantage that they have oil wealth, they have small population, they have millions in their funds and also tourists come to see the Mediterranean beaches in Libya so the country gets enough money to start over again.And i think Libya is doing the right thing, they have to start thinking about their democracy because it's really hard to live in an environment which isn't open minded, they need to treat each other equally and give rights to both men and women, because women also play a huge role in the society.

EXTRA CREDIT: The American revolution was about those 13 colonies getting their freedom from England so they could have their own democracy. Those 13 colonies didn't wanted the British to rule over them on their own country and my topic which is "Libya re-imagining itself" is the same thing Libya wants to have democracy it wants to be free and it doesn't want any other country deciding for them and they don't want to their individual rights because of some other country. And right now America is taking most of the decisions for Libya like firing their President just because U.S thought Libya is supporting terrorism, even tough they didn't even have any proof , its just not right Libya is an individual country, its supposed to have its own freedom and the right to do whatever they want. The same thing happened in the American revolution just because the colonies didn't get equal rights , they had to fight for their democracy.And if Libya gets it democracy it might raise the prices of its oil supply to US and it can affect the financial state of America. (By: Rubina Sahban)

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The Women Revolution

Prostest in Tahrir Square were mean to bring freedom, Eight months lates, women fear their rights are about to be taken. Dina Wahba help Tahrir on jan. 25 in the protest she had heard of the prostest was broken and that the one who was against was President Hosni Mubarack , the man who had ruled Egyp her entire life, and she act of defience but she was scared of the police because it was only man and she was afraid to be in harassed. After female activists help organize ralies, staffing the entraces to Tahrir Square, briging in provisions and running makeshift clinics and school.Mother of young man killed by police and university student to. But Eight months after Egyptian revolution the elation and electrifying unity of purpose has given way to disappointment. Many women fear they won't be represented or worse that existing rights may be taken awsy. And i think is bad but things change after years and is good for women.

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights Issues the Second Media Observation Report [press release] SIERRA LAMAR

Its pretty unorganized and bad that the media attitude has changed after the Egyption Revolution. And theres two sides one with the US and one against it, but both in the same country. Also, another not organized part is the media sector has not adapted a mechanisim for handling requirements in transitional phases. It seems like the media sectors in Egypt are extremely unorganized. Apparently, its some criticism between the Muslim Brotherhood and the United States, and some of it has to do with the Supreme Council for Armed Forces. The newspaper is not very clear on the various situations and the public is getting annoyed, there not even clear on what will happen to their country. It seems to me like they're trying to blame it all 0n SCAF (Supreme Council for Armed Forces). But SCAF represents all their information clearly and correctly. The Egypt Media sector definitely needs to get more organized.

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Egypt JACOB OTTOBONI

In january of 2011 egypts autocrat ruler mr.Mubarak resigned do to 18 days of harsh protesting. Egypt turned there government over to their military. In march a new set of constitutional ammendments were voted on creating a record number of voters. But the militarys close relationship to mr.mubarak infuriorated the public which lead to many protest and riots in april. The government was weak and in late june a peaceful protest in Tahiri Square became an all out war between the public and the police forse leaving many people injured and a few dead.  In my view i feel like there government should use a democratic government because the military isnt fully serparating the powers and becoming to powerful. Mr.Mubarak was in the court room and was chargeed with corruption and complicity of killing protesters. They need to throw that man in jail asap i feel he did not do his job to make egypt and equall and sucessful country.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html?scp=10&sq=arab%20revolutions&st=cse
Jacob Ottoboni

Why Did Egypt Revolt? Has there been Progress?

On Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 a powerful revolution started in Egypt. Egyptian citizens were fed up with the way that they had to live. Their president was forced many unfair things onto them and sparked a large group of people to rebel against him. Their president Hosni Mubarak was guilty of electoral fraud, and political censorship. Aside from the things that he did wrong, he neglected to do anything about police brutality, high unemployment, food price inflation and low minimum wages. Essentially he made it hard for his people to live. Almost 9 months into the revolution, Egyptian citizens have made spectacular progress. They have successfully removed Hosni Mubarak out of office, and they have mended some of the broken alliances or friendships with other countries. In September, an Egyptian Ambassador celebrated the handing over of two documents of mutual recognition of certificates between the Maritime Authorities of Liberia and Egypt and the signing of two Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) for the strengthening of relations between Muslim institution in Liberia and Egypt. This was huge for Egypt because they were able to reconnect with a long time ally in the midst of their revolution. OPINION: I think that it is great that Egypt is revolting. They defininately fighting for what is right and wont settle for anything less. This revolution personally inspired me to know that i have a voice in my community and that anyone can make a difference.

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Arabian Revolution

Summary:
So, basically the revolt is about the people in the arab world revolting against the arabian politicians. The people of the arab world want to rebuild a new order. this revolt has been going on for a few months now and has been occuring mainly in Tunisia. Tunisia is located to the west of egypt. In this article, the people are saying that they don't want to be considered " islamists" anymore but want to seek out democracy and a more tolerant vision.


Opinion:
In my opinion, the people in the arabian world are kind of doing the right thing. I mean there doesn't have to be violence, but they are fighting for what they believe in. I think every country has to go through some kind of revolution or reform before they can be succesful as one. Even then, they will still have problems like our country. I think they should be finding a way to resolve their problems verbally rather than physically. To many people can get hurt for something that can be resolved in a simple way.

EXTRA CREDIT:
The American Revolution is different from the Arabian Revolutions because they aren't fighting to sepereate from another country, they are fighting to settle arguments amongst themselves. They are also different because the Arabian Revolution is about breaking away from a certain reliogion where the American Revolution is about breaking away from a certain set of laws and government. They are both different because one is taking place now in the present and the other took place in the past around the 1700's.




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Why Some Egyptians See Military Rulers as Worse than Mubarak

Stephanie Andrade
Period 2

With the widespread and incredibly violent protests, it's hard not to know about Egypt's revolution. There's no question that these people are devoted to their cause, to get former President Hosni Mubarak removed from office is no easy task. So why, then, are military rulers who promised to lead a transition into democracy more restrictive than Mubarak was? It's obvious that the Egyptian people arent going to blindly follow harsh and unreasonable laws or punishments. They're tired of having their civil rights repressed, as they demonstrated when hundreds of protesters attacked the Israeli embassy in Cairo. This led the government to broaden the country's emergency law to allow the Ministry of Interior to indefinately detain and/or send to military court anyone who engages in strikes. In addition to this, police raided the offices of Al Jazeera, a sattelite TV network. Once they heard about the raid, fears of a crackdown on media and expression escalated. If they dont change something soon, the Egyptian military could have another, possibly more absolute revolution on their hands.

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James Luckett

Im here Mr. T

People Rise Up in the Middle East during the Arab Spring

On December 17, 2010 there was a man who set himself on fire which shook the arab world. It was that bad that it shook the whole Middle East. Why did he set himself on fire you may ask? Well, It was because an inspector was going to confiscate the mans unlicensed merchandise and he wouldn't let the inspector do so, so the inspetor aslo slapped him which was the breaking point for the man. He went and complained to municipal officals bnut they didn't do anything about it. The man went to the governors office and lit himself on fire. This shook the whole Middle East and protests began. When the protesting began this spread through the Arab countries through media around the world. Which I feel was a good thing because so people can see what this world has come too. The government in other countries aren't doing their jobs correctly and we lost one man because of it. How can someone assault another human being just because the man didn't want to give up his unlicensed merchandise? I mean, the man should of let him taken it but it was wrong on the inspectors part for slapping him. The people/government in the middle east need to do something about this or else the revolution in the Middle East will worsen and more people would do harm to themselves and other.

-Namrata Prakash <3 (:

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Giovanni Cruz

Im here