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Main Headlines

 Monday

• Governors reshuffle causes controversy
• Anger in southern Egypt over Islamist governor
• Egypt’s newly appointed governors: A ‘who’s who’
• Clashes between president’s supporters, and opponents leave 59 injured in Fayoum
• Eassam El-Erian attacks the UAE during the Shura Council Meeting
• Egyptians invest $50m in Ethiopia amid escalating tensions
• Hamas leaders change their hotel in Egypt over protests
• Thousands of police officers chant against the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood. Arabic

Tuesday

• Egypt and Ethiopia have agreed to hold further talks to quell tensions
• Protests in northern Egypt, Luxor against Morsi-appointed governors
• Brotherhood’s Ikhwan web: New Luxor Governor Vows to Stimulate and Support Tourism with All Resources
• Fears over rising dollar price amid planned protests
• FJP: Our vice chairman’s statements on UAE don’t represent us
• Court orders Mubarak’s release pending inquiry
• Fear of violence as Egypt nears June 30 protests.
• Aboul Fetouh’s Strong Egypt Party supports protest…

On Saturday, June 22nd 2013, over 800 cultural workers and artists went out to protest in the Square of the Republic in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, as well as in Novi Sad, Niš and Vršac. Such a protest on a massive scale is almost unprecedented in the country. These protests did not come out of thin air. A lot of accumulated anger and dissatisfaction with many socio-economic and political issues in recent years culminated yesterday.

The most important structural, social and political causes for the protest are: corruption and nepotism in the field of culture and non-transparent redistribution of the resources; poverty of workers in the field of culture; the change of the government from democrats to conservatives on in the Republic of Serbia and the cutting the funds for so called “non-patriotic” art; the fact that freelance artists and cultural workers are not able to renew their health…