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...TIME reporters touring in and around Cairo throughout the election observed mostly orderly voting procedures. ?In all fairness, everything went very smoothly today,? said Emadeddin Mohammed Ahmed, an observer for the New Wafd party at the Mohammed Ali secondary school in the Sayeda Zeinab district of Cairo...
...activists call trumped-up charges of forgery relating to the formation of his new Al Ghad (Tomorrow) Party. Despite private objections from the Bush administration, his trial is scheduled to go ahead after the election. The other prominent challenger is law professor Noaman Gomaa, 71, leader of the New Wafd Party, a nationalist group formed in 1919 that promises to liberalize the economy and enact political reforms. The Muslim Brotherhood, a banned but tolerated group with widespread appeal among Egyptians (its candidates, run as independents, constitute the biggest single opposition bloc in parliament) called on its supporters to vote...
EGYPT "Will Clinton direct a military attack against Iraq to distract attention away from his series of scandals?" --Headline, Al-Wafd...
...fact, the Egyptian weekly Al-Wafd claims that several thousand Egyptian girls are circumcised daily at the hands of "hygenic barbers." In all, some 80% of Egyptian women have undergone circumcision, which serves no purpose beyond depriving females of sexual pleasure; Egyptian men believe this condition ensures their fidelity. While Egyptian law does not ban clitoridectomies, a ministerial decree issued in 1959 bans the procedure in facilities affiliated with the Health Ministry and permits only physicians to perform the surgery. Last week Egyptian authorities arrested Nagla's father, the free-lance producer and the two men who performed the procedure...
...overwhelming majority in the legislature by winning 75% of the vote, thus virtually ensuring Mubarak a second six-year term when the Assembly nominates a President in October. An Islamic fundamentalist alliance of three parties, including the banned Muslim Brotherhood, polled 15% and replaced the right-wing New Wafd Party as the main opposition group...