Numerous portrayals of the ongoing civil disobedience in Port Said dominate Thursday's press. State-owned newspapers underlined the heavy financial losses the busy port city is suffering as a result of strike action, while their independent (...)
Sunday's headlines were a cocktail of warnings of an escalation of violence, the arrest of a network planning armed attacks on Sinai and the formation of a “National Conscience Front” that will save us all from the unrest.
Being the state's main and (...)
Information technology experts dismissed a court order issued Saturday banning YouTube in Egypt for a month for hosting the highly controversial film “The Innocence of Muslims,” widely deemed anti-Islamic.
The Cairo Administrative Court ordered the (...)
“I wonder if the families of the victims were checking their timelines,” journalist Farah Saafan posted on Twitter after President Mohamed Morsy tweeted late-night condolences to those who lost their lives in Suez on 25 January in clashes with the (...)
CAIRO: Hundreds marched from the Journalists' Syndicate to the People's Assembly Thursday to mark International Women's Day, with chants mainly directed at the ruling military council and the dominant Islamist parliamentary blocs.
Female and male (...)
CAIRO: A few days ago I was not allowed to join my own birthday dinner. According to the man guarding L'Aubergine's door, there were strict orders from the restaurant's owner not to let in girls who wear the hijab.
Fully aware of his employer's (...)
CAIRO: The political and economic aftermath of the Jan. 25 uprising have been the topic of discussion over the past year, however little attention has been given to its psychological repercussions.
Psychologist and neuroscientist Dalia Danish (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights called on the United Nations and African commissions to intervene in the cases of the mass killing of prisoners during the January uprising, as the general prosecutor is yet to take action.
EIPR (...)
CAIRO: Video footage of the crackdown on protesters by security forces suggests that military police were aiming to punish demonstrators rather maintain law and order, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
“Available video footage, showing harsh (...)
CAIRO: The second round of parliamentary elections saw a 67 percent voter turnout, Councilor Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of the Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC), said in a press conference Sunday.
Of the 18,831,29 registered voters, 12,529,237 (...)
CAIRO: In a televised statement, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi announced that he has accepted the Cabinet's resignation and that presidential elections will take place no later than June (...)
NEW YORK: Activist Esraa Abdel Fattah urged Egyptian expats to vote in the upcoming elections, as they questioned the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' (SCAF) intention to oversee free and fair elections in a “tweet nadwa” organized in New York (...)
CAIRO: Amnesty International outlined 10 key human rights reforms that Egyptian political parties must meet to “to deliver the new Egypt promised by the 25 January Revolution,” it said in a statement.
As parliamentary elections loom, Amnesty (...)
ZURICH: Fifteen Egyptians joined more than 1200 delegates from over 170 countries, in one of the largest representations from a single country, for the One Young World Summit in Zurich that came to a close last Saturday.
The second annual summit (...)
CAIRO: On Jan. 30, Nadia Lotfy received a frantic phone call from her brother Ashraf from inside the Appeals Prison in Old Cairo. “He told me they're shooting at some of the prisoners downstairs … I could hear chants of ‘Allahu Akbar' and a lot of (...)
ATHENS: The crowd goes silent as Gary Hunt makes his way across a 27-meter high platform. They then let out a collective gasp as he freefalls into Lake Vouliagmeni – executing his signature front quad with 1.5 twists along the way, ultimately (...)
Rights experts say they are observing the state of human rights in a post-Mubarak Egypt closely, and agree that for any improvement to occur, a set of laws needs to be introduced, amended or repealed.
Under Mubarak's rule, Egypt was continuously (...)
CAIRO: Head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Sheikh Yousef El-Qaradawi called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to liberate Egypt of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's cabinet in the Friday sermon he delivered in Tahrir (...)
LUXOR: Business leaders, public figures, as well as the youth, were all identified as key contributors to the global fight against human trafficking during a two-day forum organized by “End Human Trafficking Now,” an initiative by the Suzanne (...)
When Nizar Qabbani wrote poems like “Qare'at Al-Finjan” and “Kalemat,” it was only natural for them to be adopted by renowned artists, who added melody to the celebrated Syrian poet's words. But to be turned into hip hop songs? Not even the most (...)
All eyes were on the world's decision-makers who gathered at the United Nations' Climate Change summit in Copenhagen this month hoping to reach a viable climate treaty. In Egypt, a group of eco-conscious Egyptians worked behind the scenes, taking (...)
The year 2009 has seen its share of moral controversies which highlighted the conflict between Egypt's so-called secular government and its age-old traditions.
The debate took center stage when rumors surfaced of a crackdown on people seen (...)
CAIRO: The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemned the Ministry of Interior for not discharging detained Coptic blogger Hani Nazeer, in accordance with a fourth court ruling ordering his release.
A Supreme Emergency State (...)
Iraq's entry in the Cairo International Film Festival hit the right notes with Egyptian audiences, not for its plot or its script, but due to its employment of elements that were too close to home.
"Dawn of the World, an Iraqi-French production, (...)
Being a major Hollywood actress, Lucy Liu must have attended her share of press conferences. But nothing could have prepared her for being serenaded with a happy birthday song by the moderator.
Egyptian singer/actress Bushra, who was the press (...)