Hours before nearly 6,000 journalists head to the polls, the streets of downtown Cairo — where the headquarters of most private and state newspapers are situated — are filled with posters bearing the faces of candidates.
Friday's Journalists (...)
Over the last two years, the number of privately owned newspapers in Egypt has multiplied — but so also have the challenges they face.
Talk of cutting losses, increasing copy prices, shutting down publications and going from daily to weekly (...)
“Your letter is rejected” is the headline of the state-owned Al-Gomhurriya newspaper in response to the letter that Iranian Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei sent to President Mohamed Morsy inviting Egypt to follow the Iranian model. With widespread fear (...)
With a covered face and a rock in hand, one protester taking part in the ongoing clashes with the police at Qasr al-Nil Bridge knew the drill too well, after two years of periodic clashes.
As the few lines of protesters separating him from the (...)
Ahmed Farag, a 25-year-old lawyer, sits in his office in a suit and tie, but underneath his desk is a backpack with jeans, a shirt and sneakers.
The extra clothes are always on hand in case a protest turns unexpectedly violent and he needs to head (...)
Days ahead of the 25 January revolution's second anniversary, Thursday's papers report on ultras' protests yesterday as a preview of the larger demonstrations expected Friday to commemorate the start of the revolution.
The football fans group staged (...)
A 12-car train carrying hundreds of Central Security Forces conscripts left Upper Egypt for Cairo on Monday afternoon. Before midnight, the train derailed in Giza, leaving 19 of its passengers dead and another 120 wounded.
This is not an unusual (...)
The local press Wednesday attempts to determine culpability for the devastating train wreck that killed 19 police conscripts and injured more than 100 late Monday.
In a transparent attempt to head off accusations against President Mohamed Morsy's (...)
The parliamentary elections law, currently being debated in the Shura Council, which has legislative powers until parliamentary elections, is marking another juncture in the ongoing rift between Islamist and civil groups.
Forces in opposition to the (...)
The year 2012 was supposed to witness Egypt's transition from the revolutionary state back to the stability of elected bodies and sovereign institutions.
However, the transition turned out to be longer and more complicated than expected, and the (...)
President Morsy's latest address to the nation—at Saturday's opening session of the Shura Council's new cycle—provoked a few sarcastic headlines in Sunday's papers.
Independent daily Al-Sabah observes that “Morsi speaks about the Egypt he imagines,” (...)
Following the first round of the referendum on the constitution, which many hoped would be the first step on the road to stability, close results and fears about violations indicate the political upheaval will continue, and perhaps even (...)
After a week of tumultuous polarization, Egyptians headed to the ballot boxes in what would be their eighth election since the 25 January revolution.
Like a chorus to a turbulent transition, the voting process became a recurrent scene to Egyptians (...)
Sunday's front pages report on the large pro-Mohamed Morsy protests staged Saturday, as opposition voices in Tahrir Square and elsewhere spoke out against the 22 November constitutional declaration issued by Morsy and the draft constitution that he (...)
Chants of “down with the regime” echoed Saturday through the halls of the Judges Club, whose general assembly rejected President Mohamed Morsy's recent constitutional declaration and called on all courts to suspend their work in protest. Nearby, a (...)
On Wednesday, the general prosecutor ordered the relevant authorities to enforce a court ruling banning pornographic websites that was issued in 2009.
Many experts predict that it is unlikely the government has the technological capabilities to (...)
The repeated attacks on police forces in Sinai and the ongoing investigation of a “terrorist cell” in Nasr City have opened the door for a flood of conspiracy theories and a renewed focus on the deteriorating security situation in the strategic (...)
The first draft of the new constitution released last week continues to be discussed and debated inside and outside the Constituent Assembly. Meanwhile, the fate of the assembly and the constitution remains uncertain as the Supreme Constitutional (...)
“Only in Egypt: you object to the Emergency Law, they change its name to the ‘protecting society from criminals' law; you object to that and its name becomes the ‘safeguarding the gains of the revolution' law.”
This was the reaction of lawyer and (...)
MINYA — Clustered around a long table in an office in the heart of Mallawy city on 4 October, southern Minya's urban center, members of non-Islamist parties discussed with great enthusiasm — but little concrete planning — an initiative they are (...)
The acquittal of all defendants in the Battle of the Camel case, and President Mohamed Morsy's subsequent sacking of the public prosecutor, are the most recent examples of the politicization of the judiciary, observers say.
Twenty-four defendants, (...)
Our Armed Forces, with its Ground Forces, Air Force, Navy and Air Defense, played a symphony repeating powerfully and with faith the motto of the Ramadan war: God is great; He put an end to the wrong saying that the Israeli military is invincible in (...)
Minutes after breaking a two-day hunger strike, Samir Abdel Hady, a health employee from the village of Tahseen in Daqahlia, leaned against the wall with a look of sheer exhaustion in his eyes.
It was despair rather than food deprivation that seemed (...)
With the Egyptian public outraged about a film apparently produced in the US that allegedly insults the Prophet Mohamed, and the American public looking to Obama to condemn the breach of the US Embassy in Cairo by protesters last Tuesday, the (...)
The Egyptian Paralympics team left to the London games last month with little public attention or anticipation. But after winning 15 medals for Egypt and breaking two world records, they returned as heroes.
On Monday night, hundreds received the (...)