News coverage for Monday, 4 October includes features marking the 6th of October 1973 victory over Israel and front-page content focusing on the much-anticipated and rapidly approaching November parliamentary elections.
Thus far, the lead-up to the (...)
A new Muslim Brotherhood (MB) student campaign has been launched under the name “The Reformers” to ostensibly show the “true face” of the younger ranks of the banned Islamic group--and the one-day-old campaign is already facing resistance by (...)
With state-owned Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar newspapers focusing on President Hosni Mubarak's Berlin summit, independent papers run headlines on the controversy over the Madinaty land sale and pro-democracy protests against the president's son, Gamal (...)
An international report focusing on the plight of pro-democracy and human rights activists and associations that are working under tough political circumstances or are being persecuted by their host countries--especially in the Middle East--was (...)
Camillia Shehata is a Coptic Christian woman who “saw the light of truth” and wanted to convert to Islam, but was forcibly prevented from doing so by Egyptian authorities. She was arrested and locked away in a monastery, forever the hostage of the (...)
Front page headlines in state-owned newspapers Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar, in addition to other national newspapers, report that 14 parliamentarians from both the Shura Council and People's Assembly were stripped of their legal immunity over corruption (...)
A group of Islamist lawyers have filed a lawsuit in an Egyptian administrative court against Coptic Pope Shenouda to compel him to release alleged Muslim convert Camillia Shehata.
“Resorting to court is the most civilized and legal way to deal with (...)
A meeting called by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement with leaders of Egypt's top political factions appears to have yielded more differences than unity among opposition forces.
MB General Guide Mohamed Badie held the closed meeting (...)
London--Is it acceptable to intervene in students' practices? Is the perceived threat of extremism or radical thought good enough reason to step in?
Is it wrong for university authorities on British campuses to ban the presence of inflammatory (...)
As contractors and parliamentarians, and even ruling party officials, blow the whistle on various state-owned land sale violations--with the government appearing to be guilty as charged--two questions rear their heads: Why has the sale of state land (...)
Irregularities, misallocations, dodgy deals and controversial contracts seem to be a common thread in state-owned land sales in recent years, with more and more stories of corruption coming to light.
The laundry list, getting longer with each new (...)
I jumped on the early train to Minya minutes before it started moving, after pushing my way through the crowd at Cairo's main railway station, where the hustle and bustle begins in the early hours of morning and almost never ceases.
I'd barely slept (...)
This is the fifth part of an investigative series exploring the question of Islamic radicalism on British campuses. Previous installments looked at collective pains of Muslims, profiles of young British Muslim extremists, the question of how (...)
Wafd Party president al-Sayed al-Badawy failed to give a final word on whether or not the party will boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections.
El-Badawy told a crowd of hundreds at a national conference held Sunday in the party's decades-old (...)
El-Sayed el-Badawi was elected in May to lead the Wafd opposition party, one of the oldest political parties that Egypt has known, and both his leadership and the resurrection of the party have been questioned ever since.
El-Badawi has been credited (...)
Reminiscing over the past ten years of frequent trips to the strip of bright blue sea and white sand that lies north-west of Cairo, memories come rushing back, along with a realization of the many social trends that Egypt's North coast, or “Sahel,” (...)
This is the fourth part of an investigative series exploring the question of Islamic radicalism on British campuses. Previous installments looked at collective pains of Muslims, profiles of young British Muslim extremists and the question of how (...)
This is the third part of an investigative series exploring the question of Islamic radicalism on British campuses. The first and second installments looked at the lives and thought of some Muslim students, and separately explored the profiles of (...)
It seems Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement is trying to coin a new term, “ikhwanophobia,” by launching a website of the same name mixing Islam-related news and commentary with original content promoting the ideology of one of the (...)
This is the second part of an investigative series exploring the question of Islamic radicalism on British campuses. In the previous installment, Al-Masry Al-Youm talked to four City University students about identity and why they chose to adopt a (...)
Yousra Shaher's furniture is not about aesthetics. “It's mainly about the concept, the inspiration and what this concept means to me,” she says. An architect by training and a designer by profession, she talked to Al-Masry Al-Youm during a showcase (...)
Shalateen, Southern Egypt--The dispute between Egypt and Sudan over the Halayeb Triangle, which straddles the border between the two countries, has flared up again following recent Sudanese claims on the area.
On 30 June, Sudanese President Omar (...)
This article represents the first part of a series on the question of Islamic radicalism on British campuses
London--“I'm not angry; I am anger. I'm not dangerous; I am danger,” poet Amir Sulaiman bellowed into the microphone before a Muslim (...)
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made a public appearance on Thursday at an air-force parade in the province of Sharqiyah. Live coverage of the event at the Air Force Academy was broadcast on state television in what observers see as an immediate (...)
Among widespread and continuing human rights abuses throughout Egypt in 2009, 12 people were tortured to death by police, according to the annual report of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR).
“We documented 63 cases of torture in (...)