As the demands of the Mahala strikers are met, the prospect of copycat industrial action has grown, writes Karim El-Khashab
Disruption at the Mahala textile factory ended on Sunday after a week of industrial action on a scale not seen in Egypt for (...)
Egypt's largest workers' action in 20 years began on Sunday. Karim El-Khashab examines the ramifications of this latest strike
On Sunday, workers at the state run textile and weaving company Ghazl Al-Mahala began one of the largest industrial (...)
Karim El-Khashab reviews the emergence of an "adversarial" press unseen in Egypt since the 1920s
The number of journalists facing prison sentences is growing. On top of last week's judgement against four editors of independent newspapers, all of (...)
The police face yet more allegations of torture, reports Karim El-Khashab
Ramadan Antar was arrested earlier this month on charges of brawling in public in the Moharem Bek district of Alexandria.
It is not the first time he has been detained. He (...)
Cases of torture have dominated the headlines for months now. But what, asks Karim El-Khashab, has the accompanying public uproar achieved
Activists gathered on Sunday outside the headquarters of the Association for Human Rights Legal Aid in (...)
As the Interior Ministry is forced to investigate allegations of torture in police stations, it continues to insist such incidents are isolated, reports Karim El-Khashab
Two of the most widely publicised cases of police brutality to have emerged in (...)
A key witness against Ayman Nour, who later retracted his confession in court claiming it was made under duress, was found dead in his prison cell, reports Karim El-Khashab
Ayman Ismail, a key witness in the case against Ayman Nour, died in his (...)
Changes to the health insurance system see the opposition raising the spectre of privatisation, reports Karim El-Khashab
New health insurance regulations, which will come into effect by 2010, have caused alarm among the opposition and the (...)
Talking about it is one thing, telling the truth quite another: consulting the experts, Karim El-Khashab dares divulge the taboo of taboos
Targeting Egyptians, Arab satellite TV has been promoting aphrodisiacs like never before. In one recent (...)
finds himself the centre of yet another storm following an article written for The Washington Post, reports Karim El-Khashab
is no stranger to controversy and unlikely to be surprised by the uproar that has greeted the latest article penned by the (...)
The Interior Ministry is attempting to improve its image. But will it wash with the public, reports Karim El-Khashab
Reports of torture in Egyptian jails were again highlighted when a delegation from the African Committee for Human Rights visited (...)
The uproar over alleged torture in the country's police stations is far from over, writes Karim El-Khashab
Among the allegations of torture in Egypt's police stations that have filled the country's press in recent weeks, the case of Mohamed (...)
Allegations of people dying while in police custody have been springing up all over Egypt. Do they have political ramifications, asks Karim El-Khashab
Over the past few weeks, some half a dozen stories have appeared in the press of people dying (...)
A former lawyer for Egypt's Islamist groups has turned into the defender of democracy, announcing the formation of a new political party, Karim El-Khashab investigates
Controversial lawyer Montasser El-Zayat, most famous for acting on behalf of (...)
Water is the great leveller. Well, almost, writes Karim El-Khashab
Residents of Daqahliya fought each other with sticks and stones to fill their water containers last week in scenes which, say the residents of one village, grow increasingly chaotic (...)
Take two former ministers, a judge and a piece of government-owned land. Mix them together and you have the recipe for the latest corruption scandal, reports Karim El-Khashab
In one of the biggest political scandals this year, lawyer Amir Salem has (...)
More happened outside the courtroom than inside at the military trial of 39 Muslim Brotherhood members, reports Karim El-Khashab
The third hearing in the trial of 39 Muslim Brotherhood members was adjourned on Sunday amid massive media coverage. The (...)
El-Sheikh instead
KHALED El-Sheikh, the candidate of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), on 16 July won bi-elections of the Tala district in the Nile-Delta governorate of Menoufiya. El-Sheikh won unopposed.
The Tala bi-elections were held in (...)
Public confidence in the health system is at rock bottom, reports Karim El-Khashab
The recent, widely publicised deaths of children being treated in public hospitals have led to the entire public health system being placed under scrutiny, with (...)
The arrest of four members of the little known Quranist group has sparked a wide-ranging religious debate, reports Karim El-Khashab
When security forces arrested a four-member group of Quranists on charges of defaming Islam last month, and the state (...)
But who cares? Karim El-Khashab finds apathy the most common response to Monday's Shura Council elections
Shura Council elections, in which 77 seats were up for grabs, are the first to be held following the recent constitutional overhaul. Not that (...)
now shares his brother's fate -- both have been ejected from the People's Assembly. Yet, as Karim El-Khashab discovers, the speed of action taken against sitting MPs is far from consistent
On 29 May, the People's Assembly expelled , a nephew of the (...)
Is the health sector being prepared for a major overhaul, asks Karim El-Khashab
With the Health Ministry, the centre of a series of ongoing controversies, undergoing disputes over new healthcare legislation and the fall out from the scandal (...)
Are the security forces becoming less tolerant of industrial action by workers, asks Karim El-Khashab
Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch reported 11 separate incidents of industrial action in the last week of April alone, as workers seemed (...)
Tuesday is Labour Day. But who's celebrating, asks Karim El-Khashab
President Hosni Mubarak's annual speech, scheduled today but marking Labour Day on Tuesday, will be delivered against a backdrop of increasing industrial action. Sit-ins and strikes (...)