Ursula Lindsey

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The Meaning of Sharia Law

As Egypt's constitution is being re-drafted, one word is causing friction: "sharia." Sharia is often translated as "Islamic law" but it is much more than that. So much more that there is disagreement over what it means.

The Meaning of Sharia Law
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Egyptian Election: Split Vote Keeps Centrist Candidates from Advancing

Egyptian Election: Split Vote Keeps Centrist Candidates from Advancing
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Egyptian Unrest After Soccer Violence

Egyptian Unrest After Soccer Violence

Hardcore soccer fans driving force behind Egypt violence

Hardcore soccer fans driving force behind Egypt violence
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Egypt's Government Fires Top Police Officers

Egypt's Government Fires Top Police Officers
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New political parties in Egypt

Egyptians are scrambling to form new parties for the first time in decades. Ursula Lindsey reports that they're even working to set up political action committees, some modeled after the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

New political parties in Egypt
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Egypt's "Daily Show"

The Egyptian revolution has ushered in a new type of media freedom to the country. Ursula Lindsey reports on a new program in Egypt that is modeled on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show."

Egypt's "Daily Show"
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Risk for women journalists in Egypt

Following the news that CBS correspondent Lara Logan suffered a brutal sexual assault while covering the recent protests in Egypt, Anchor Lisa Mullins asks Cairo-based journalist Ursula Lindsey about her experiences as a woman correspondent working there.

Risk for women journalists in Egypt

Protest chants as musical soundtrack

Ursula Lindsey reports from Cairo on the improvised chants that have provided a musical soundtrack to the past weeks of protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Protest chants as musical soundtrack

The women of Tahrir Square

The women of Tahrir Square

On the way to Tahrir Square

Hundreds of people stood in line in Cairo on Friday, waiting to get into Tahrir Square, the center of the anti-government protests. Ursula Lindsey stopped to speak to a few of them, and sent us this report.

On the way to Tahrir Square

Journalists attacked and detained in Egypt

Foreign journalists covering the unrest in Cairo have been attacked and in some cases detained. From Cairo, Ursula Lindsey reports that the crackdown also appears to involve airing allegations that the foreign press is part of an anti-Mubarak plot.

Journalists attacked and detained in Egypt

Egypt's opposition groups try to unite

Ursula Lindsey reports from Cairo on who the Egyptian opposition is, and how various opposition groups are trying to speak with one voice in the wake of unprecedented anti-government protests there.

Egypt's opposition groups try to unite
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Egypt's Christians under pressure

Egypt is on high alert after a New Year's Day suicide bombing at a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria. As Ursula Lindsey reports, the attack was just the latest violence targeting Christians in Egypt.

Egypt's Christians under pressure
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Egypt elections: Violence and fraud predicted

Egypt is holding parliamentary elections this Sunday. Past elections have been marred by fraud and violence. As Ursula Lindsey reports, many observers fear it will be worse than usual, with crack downs on the Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt elections: Violence and fraud predicted