Civil liberties, human rights, political reform - that's front-page material. And I want 80 percent of the news to be local.

The means available to candidates are hugely disproportionate. One cannot compete with the government machine.

When you look at everything that is happening, I am sure, I have no doubt, this is out to crush the party and him personally, at least until the elections are over.

In Cairo this requirement fortunately does not apply, but it is perplexing and penalizes candidates from small parties.

I'm sure he grits his teeth that we're out there criticizing him, but we can't turn back.

What you need now is a paper of record in Egypt. That's what's missing.

Iraq is a miracle -- having a psychopathic dictator to a situation where at least we have a political process going on was something that could have taken 30 years.

It's a pity because it really looked like he was going to deliver.

The reason for this is that the ban was announced after newspapers went to the printers.