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Mohamed Morsi: leader of Egypt?
By Lucky Gold
We are much more liberal than everyone else thinks we are
The results of Egypt’s historic presidential election are not yet official, but with Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, claiming victory, while the military apparently retains power, the voting has created more questions than answers.
To address some of those questions Jihad Haddad, a spokesman for Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, appeared Monday on Amanpour. He was asked if women and Christians, among others, should be frightened if Mohamed Morsi becomes president.
On the contrary, said Haddad, “Their rights will be safeguarded much more than it was during Mubarak’s time. All personal freedoms will be safeguarded. They will have complete freedom in every one of their choices, even religion.”
Speaking to Christiane Amanpour in Cairo, Haddad addressed the perception of the Muslim Brotherhood: “Everything that has been echoed about the Muslim Brotherhood is probably much more lies than truth,” he said. “In reality, we are much more liberal than everyone else thinks we are.”
Haddad is unfazed by the military’s assertion of power over the parliament and over the presidency. “Everything is running smoothly,” he said. According to Haddad, parliament will meet as planned this week, potentially forcing a confrontation with military rulers and Egypt’s high court. FULL POST
Christiane in Cairo
As votes are counted in Egypt's historic election, Christiane is in Cairo! Here are some of her photos as she prepares for tonight's show.
Preparing for the show. FULL POST
SNC: "We cannot deal with a gang of murderers"
Christiane speaks with Abdulbaset Sieda, the new head of the Syrian National Council, about his organization's contacts with the Free Syrian Army and the prospects for negotiation with Bashar Assad.
FULL-LENGTH EDITION: Confusion in Egypt
Part 1: Egyptian high court disbands parliament Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman and Former Presidential Candidate Amr Moussa weigh in on the court’s surprise decision. Part 2: The historical perspective Professor Khaled Fahmy of the American University Cairo says the military’s actions Thursday amounted to a “legal coup.” PLUS: One revolution to another Nasser let to Sadat, and Sadat to Mubarak. What comes next, we don’t yet know.
Egypt's high court disbands parliament
CNN's Ben Wedeman and former Presidential Candidate Amre Moussa weigh in on the court's surprise decision.
Historical perspective of Egypt ruling
Professor Khaled Fahmy of the American University Cairo says what happened Thursday amounted to a "legal coup."
Opposing views on Egyptian high court ruling
By Lucky Gold
Egypt’s Elections: Two Opposing Views
As Egypt prepares for a runoff election to choose its president, Amr Moussa, a candidate in the first round of elections and a former foreign minister under Hosni Mubarak, was asked how Egypt can elect a president, with a new constitution to enumerate his powers.
“In fact that is not my point of view,” said Moussa, speaking from Cairo. “My point of view is that the current constitutional declaration is enough to give the president the power he needs.”
Among those powers, he listed “the period of four years, the right of two terms, the separation of forces, the independence of the judiciary.”
“So I don’t think this is a very important point,” he added. “I believe that the president, once elected, knows exactly the powers he will use. The constitutional declaration is quite enough for the time being.”
And if it proves not to be enough? Said Moussa: “If the need arises, then we’ll deal with that through some amendments. So this is not a crucial point concerning the presidential elections.” FULL POST
FULL-LENGTH EDITION: A relationship on the rocks
Part 1: Putting the monkey on Lavrov's back The U.S. relationship with Russia is deteriorating at a critical time for Syria and Iran. Christiane Amanpour speaks with Former U.S. State Dept. Official Martin Indyk. Part 2: Straying from the Vatican line Sister Joan Chittister talks about why the Vatican is going after American nuns for, it alleges, straying from church doctrine and promoting "radical feminists" themes. PLUS: A rose of the desert no longer One year ago, Vogue declared Asma Assad "a rose of the desert." Now, as bloodshed in Syria deepens, she has stood by her husband.
Putting the monkey on Lavrov's back
The U.S. relationship with Russia is deteriorating at a critical time for Syria and Iran.
Straying from the Vatican line
Are American nuns straying from church doctrine and promoting "radical feminists" themes, as alleged?
Putting the monkey on Lavrov’s back
By Lucky Gold
(CNN) - Why doesn’t the United States apply more pressure to Russia to end its support of the Assad regime? The answer, according to a former US. Assistant Secretary of State, can be found, not in Damascus but in Tehran.
“Ultimately, I think we’re going to have to decide which one is more important to us,” said Martin Indyk, appearing Wednesday on Amanpour. “And I suspect that at the end of the day, it will be the Iranian issue and the nuclear weapons program of Iran that trumps concern about what’s happening in Syria.”
Indyk, the author of “Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy,” talked about the effect U.S. actions have had on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: “We are in the process of putting the monkey on Lavrov’s back,” he said
“On the one hand,” said Indyk, “we’re expecting Lavrov to go off to Tehran…and deliver a more flexible position on the part of the Iranians toward the offer that’s on the table in the nuclear talks…in which we are heavily dependent on the Russians to cooperate with us and pressure the Iranians.”
“And at the same time,” said Indyk, “we’re beating them (the Russians) over the head for being too supportive of the Assad regime, particularly by providing these attack helicopters. And it’s a very hard balancing game.”
Seeing the Russia’s point of view, Indyk added: “I think the most important thing that they’re concerned about, Christiane, is that at the end of the day, Syria not be taken out from the Russian column and put in the American column. And we don’t have a very good track record on reassuring them of that.” FULL POST
FULL-LENGTH EDITION: Documenting the bloodshed in Syria
Part 1: Targeting children in Syria Children are bearing the brunt of conflict in Syria. Photojournalist Robert King and Nadim Houri of Human Rights Watch give their accounts. Part 2: Peres: "Assad no longer an alternative" The Israeli President on his country's neighbors: Syria, Iran, and Egypt. PLUS: A world transformed without firing a shot Twenty five years ago, Ronald Reagan and younger voices of change helped drown out the old voices of oppression.
Targeting children in Syria
Children are bearing the brunt of conflict in Syria. Human Rights Watch photojournalists give their accounts.
Peres: 'Assad no longer an alternative'
Israeli President Shimon Peres talks about freedom and the future of the Middle East.
CNN’s Ken Olshansky produced this piece for television.
A bullseye on the backs of children
By Lucky Gold
So many wounded kids
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Robert King, a photojournalist who spent a month filming in Syria. “It’s the Butcher of Syria. He’s targeting civilians.”
Speaking Tuesday from Beirut to Christiane Amanpour, King said: “In twenty years I’ve not photographed so many wounded kids. And it seems like a lot of the world is indifferent about these horrific crimes.”
Asked why children were often the targets, he offered several reasons: “They (the survivors) assumed it was collective punishment. Then they believed it was because of their religious beliefs, that they were Sunni… and also because they were supporting the revolution. So you have this regime that’s trying to kill the revolutionaries; then they’re trying to kill the offspring of the revolutionaries – it’s ethnic genocide.” FULL POST
Why I asked Christine Lagarde about Angela Merkel’s sex
By Christiane Amanpour
I’ve often talked to Christine Lagarde about the role of women in this very male-dominated world. Not just at the pinnacle of political power, but also at the top of the banking and business world.
During the financial crisis, for instance, Lagarde told me she thought that if there had been more women in positions of political and economic power, perhaps the financial crisis, bank collapses and very risky investments wouldn’t have been as dramatic.
She was not arguing for a brave new world of female domination! Just a bit more parity where it matters!
Lagarde was the first female chairman of Chicago law firm Baker & McKenzie. She was France’s first female finance minister (indeed the first female finance minister of any G7 country). And she is now the first female managing director of the International Monetary Fund, dispensing billions of dollars in loans around the world.
Lagarde says in all her decades of experience she has noticed a different negotiating tactic between men and women. Men tend to look at it as a zero-sum game, she says: ‘you have to lose in order for me to win.’ She said men bring a lot of ego and testosterone to the table. That is why she argues for more parity in the boardroom.
During the current global economic crisis, especially in the eurozone, we can’t ignore the lighting rod that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become. I’ve seen her depicted as Nazi, and read the most horrible things written about her looks.
So in my latest interview with Christine Lagarde, I asked did she think that Merkel would be under this kind of personal attack and pressure if she weren’t a woman?
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