This was recorded during Morsi's presidential campaign. This video is going viral today after Morsi's latest constituional powergrab.

Question: I am not going to vote for you because you will sit on the throne and will never leave.

Morsi: Impossible, impossible, why? because the people as I've said before, are awake and aware, Muslims and Christians, and they know whoever comes and doesn't respect the law and constitution, the people will revolt against him. I …

Very little is spent by the government on health care (5.7% of total government expenditure). While private expenditure (from people's own hard earned cash) on health care is higher than what the goverment pays. Thousands of medical graduates every year are introduced to a difficult job market where they have few options. They can either work in the public health sector, work in private only, work abroad or leave medicine. Few are lucky to …

لم يهتم الاعلام المحلي (بالمقارنة بالاعلام الغربي) بموضوع برامج التصنت التي تباع للأنظمة الأمنية مثل أمن الدولة في مصر والمنطقة العربية، تستخدم تلك البرامج لمراقبة النشطاء عبر الانترنت. من أهم تلك البرامج هو برنامج فينفيشر من انتاج شركة جاما (انجليزية ولها فرع بألمانيا). كتب اليوم عمرو غربية في جريدة الشروق مقال هام عن هذا الموضوع وعن القيود الحالية في مجال الاتصالات. 

يمكنك الإطلاع على ملف أمن الدولة الخاص ببرنامج فينفيشر هنا. 

The Benford law is a very interesting mathematical observation of naturally occuring numbers. In such numbers the frequency of the first digit from 1 to 9 has a certain pattern. One third of all numbers will have number 1 as the first digit, 17% will have number 2 as the first digit and 12.5% will have number 3 and so on.

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This can be used to detect if numbers have been …

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Rough English transcript written while the debate was live can be found here:

Round 1

Round 2

Please note that this was typed while the debate was being aired live on TV so there are bits missing and possible inaccuracies. Also lots of spelling and grammatical mistakes.

The video of the debate itself can be found here.

Warning: this was typed while the debate was being broadcasted live so there are bits missing and possible inaccuracies. Also lots of spelling and grammatical mistakes.

First round can be found here

AF: Abdel monem abou el-Fotoh AM: Amr Moussa

Moderator: Youssri Fouda

Y: I'd like to greet both of them again .. my role is to ask questions only. I have one comment you shouldn't include questions in your comments.

AM objects

Y: first qestion …

UPDATE: Second round is here

Warning: this was typed while the debate was being broadcasted live so there are bits missing and possible inaccuracies. Also lots of spelling and grammatical mistakes.

Link to live broadcast in arabic

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Mona el Shazly: Egyptians never chose their president, who would rule. Follow us today so you can choose. With you Mona el Shazly and Yousri fouda

Y: Welcome to the first .. We present this to the …

الحقيقة اتسم النظام البائد بالتعريص من النوع الفج، حتى ان مضبطة جلسات مجلس الشعب السابقة مليئة به، في العادة تذكر وقائع التعريص بكلمة أخرى وهي التصفيق وفي العادة يكون مبالغ فيه عندما يتكلم رئيس الجمهورية وقيادات الحزب الوطني. ويذكر بين قوسين (تصفيق) أو (تصفيق حاد) أو (تصفيق حاد استمر بعد الوقت) وكانهم تناولوا منشطات تعريص مستوردة.

في الجلسة المشتركة الافتتاحية بين مجلسي الشعب والشورى والتي، حسب الائحة، يجب ان تبدأ بتلاوة الأية القرآنية (وَق …