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An interesting analysis of the political scene...

Interesting perspective... Friedman reports that Egyptians want to know if America will "let" Obama win...

No real choice... ICG offers "an alternative to the current short-term thinking" about the brotherhood...

New protest group called Citizens against Stupidity...

All-too-frequent? Clashes over flour rations in Northern coastal town...

An inflammatory new book about Mubarak...

Busy day at parliament... Some opposition to new law setting 18 as the minimum age for marriage, and allowing women to register children under their own family names... Meanwhile, MPs vote to outlaw female circumcision...

Realistic LA Times portrait of the labor struggle... Guardian looks at poverty's effect... Price hike protestors freed after 'weeks of torture'... LA Times op-ed urges support for Facebook activists...

Emergency law takes by RNW and Reuters... Earlier: Amnesty: about 18,000 in jail without charge or trial... 2 more years of emergency law -- reports from Reuters, BBC, & LA Times.. Protesting outside parliament... Emergency law expected to expire in less than 10 days... About that time... What's up with the emergency law...?

Upbeat chat... CNN gets a little face time with the Prime Minister... Think tank analysis urges resuscitation of political reform process...

Washington Post does yet another in-depth piece on the Facebook phenomenon... Earlier: Washington Post offers a different kind of analysis of the Facebook phenomenon ... as well as a sharp critique.... LA Times also tries...

Blunt analysis... Wahid Abdel-Meguid: "the decision makers do not feel yet that they govern a state in danger, and therefore they think playing with fire is safe..." Reuters tries to dampen the Gamal Mubarak scenario... "The government swallows the salary increase" -- snapshot from a parliamentary debate.. Press Syndicate stairs protest against price hikes...

Up in smoke... AP says nation is stunned by sudden price hikes that affect fuel, car license fees, cigarettes, and more...

Quiet intersection... Day of protest on president's birthday draws very little response... LA times take... More from BBC...

Facebook-driven strike didn't work, says AP...

Big money... 30 percent salary increase for all government employees...More from Reuters...

Meanwhile, USA Today asks: Is the bread crisis almost over?

On the brink? New book investigates the tenuous political scene...

Natural gas export to Israel begins...

Enough wheat for the next 3 months...

Race against time? Nazif promises to raise public-sector salaries by 20 per cent... Plus: Nazif asks anyone with ideas on how to deal with the economic crisis to come forward...

Dramatic Mahalla slideshow... Post Mahalla movement... Washington Post commentator tries to interpret the political scene...  Facebook activist Esra Abdel Fattah finally released... LA Times looks at internet-based plans for a new protest... A US journalist's first hand report on Mahalla on PBS... BBC talks to Mahalla residents after the fact... 

US journalist detained during Mahalla protests becomes global symbol of the power of Twitter... Earlier: US freelance journalist detained in Mahalla... More...

Photos from a new doctors' strike...

Bahareya residents not happy about governorate shift decision...

Reuters says authorities have failed to tell Brotherhood the charges on which 25 members have been sentenced... Earlier: Harsh convictions in brotherhood military trial verdict... Protests follow...

92 per cent victory for NDP in the local polls...

Another solidarity protest in Korea...

Socio-political-economic grab-bag... "Price of cereals and bread has leapt by nearly 50% over the past 12 months..." A CNN take on the bread story, tying in Mahalla too... An opinion piece tries to gauge people politics... Another interesting opinion looks at the 6 April strike... Plus, a CNN correspondent on a top Kefaya arrest... and AP takes on the bakeries... LA Times senses tense times... Reuters reports raid on publishing house...

Baheyya: the "slow-motion socio-political transformation is proceeding beautifully..."

Kifaya leader arrested... More, with reactions, from Reuters... And AFP... Plus latest developments from AP...

All eyes on Mahalla... Prime Minister Nazif plays politics in the boiling riot of Mahallla... Photos of Nazif addressing the crowd... And the protests  continue, leaving two dead... Photo... More....

Did you know it was election day?
BBC: "Voting is sluggish in local elections which the government is sure to win..." VOA: "Most polling stations in Cairo appeared to be almost empty... " AFP: "Polls closed with little excitement..."  Brotherhood boycotts... Photo of a ballot box...

Claim game... April 6 strike roundups by AFP, IHT, VOA, and AP. Reuters goes to Mahalla... LA Times calls it a "whimper..." Professor says don't underestimate...

AFP says cyber-dissidents aim for new protest date...

AFP is counting the days on the government's promise to resolve economic woes...