Egypt hosted delegations from Hamas and Israel separately Monday to begin ironing out the details of a brokered truce that brought an end to Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death of 167 Palestinians and six (...)
It's been a week chock-full of news, which meant the latest bout of downtown clashes has not taken center stage as it usually would. Instead, this news item fought for a place amidst a flurry of breaking news: a military attack on Qursaya, the (...)
The one story that dominates headlines is obvious. Tuesday, a court will rule on the legality of the Constituent Assembly and whether it should be dissolved. In the court's ruling lies the fate of Egypt's future constitution and throws up a myriad (...)
Senior Muslim Brotherhood members took to the press to condemn attacks on their followers in Tahrir Friday, which marked political resentment towards the organization whose men are ruling Egypt today.
Today's protest was staged by various players to (...)
Cases of torture in police stations continue in Egypt despite an uprising that ostensibly began against police brutality, Amnesty International revealed. The recent case of death by torture inside a police station occurred in the area of Meit Ghamr (...)
There are blasts from the past in today's papers, as political and public figures that seemed to carry so much weight circa 2011 return to grace the front pages a year later, for varying reasons.
Keeping with more time-relevant information, (...)
Of the many failings inherent in the Egyptian media, the ability to plaster ambiguous, conspiracy-laden information as front-page fact is right up there at the top of the list. Case in point is the infamous “spy ad” that Egyptian television in its (...)
On Mashrou Leila's latest album is the song “Inni Mnih” (I'm All Right). The opening line of the lyric can loosely be translated as “Let's burn this city to the ground and build a more honest one.”
A good lyric is either one that is accurately (...)
After last month's attacks in Sinai that killed 16 Egyptian security officers, questions have loomed over President Mohamed Morsy's ability to control militancy in the peninsula, which is often held to be connected to the infiltration of radical (...)
President Mohamed Morsy's trip to China this week was deemed intuitive by analysts, given a thriving trade connection between the two countries. But it also is an index of Morsy's resorting to the old regime's economic order.
A strong trade (...)
Under pressure from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, political forces announced Thursday that they have come to an agreement on the makeup of the body tasked with writing Egypt's next constitution.
From Wednesday night until the early hours (...)
I first heard of Mashrou Leila sometime last year, after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. There was a YouTube clip of one of their songs doing the rounds on the Internet, and it was spreading rather rapidly. It was “Fasateen”, the first single from the (...)
It was only a matter of time before the candidates in Egypt's first post-Hosni Mubarak presidential race started taking swings at each other. Throughout the race, it has often seemed more about exchanging personal attacks than any concerted (...)
Tahrir Square on Friday was marred by a very poor turnout for yet another round of “saving the revolution” protests. The numbers in the square did not increase much beyond those who were already staging a sit-in after the expulsion of Salafi (...)
The past year in Egypt has highlighted the difficulties civilians face in the military justice system. Around 15,000 civilians were tried in military courts, most of them reporting that they did not receive full legal rights in their speedy trials. (...)
The votes are still being counted, but the names of the hundred people nominated to draft Egypt's next constitution have been announced. Since Parliament decided to appoint half the members from within its ranks, the list is dominated by Islamists, (...)
Today's papers cover two events regarding people coming under intense scrutiny by the country's leaders. The first is the beginning of the trial of NGOs for illicit foreign funding and the second is Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri's address of (...)
Grief runs deep for Hassan Osama, a student and member of a group that calls itself Ultras Revolution.
“I've had four friends die, there's a fire inside [me] and all I can say is down with military rule.”
Osama marched with 1,500 students from (...)
Egypt's revolution has given us its fair share of surreal moments, and recent clashes in downtown Cairo were no different. As security forces continuously pumped tear gas into Mansour Street, some protesters could be found eating an Egyptian staple, (...)
Most of Sunday's newspapers aligned with the state or the Muslim Brotherhood gleefully reported on the failure of the call for civil disobedience Saturday, reporting that Egyptians disobeyed the calls for disobedience and other such puns.
“Egypt (...)
Attempting to manage the fallout of the Port Said football violence, the People's Assembly national security and defense committee developed a list of recommendations, which, to the surprise of many, the government heeded: separating members of (...)
PORT SAID ― Despite a biting wind the sun shone brightly on Port Said Thursday, and if not for the people out in droves in front of the governorate building and marching around the city, no one would guess that unprecedented violence had occurred (...)
PORT SAID — Port Said residents are adamant that the violence at Wednesday's football match here was caused by infiltrators, not hardcore local football fans.
A handful of supporters of the Masry Football Club, which beat Cairo's leading team Ahly (...)
Elections for Egypt's upper house of Parliament, the Shura Council, began Sunday with little fanfare. Unlike the first day of voting for the People's Assembly, the lower house — which saw hours-long lines around Cairo and non-stop coverage by local (...)
The police station at the border town of Rafah has not been renovated, unlike the police stations in Arish and Sheikh Zowayed. It still shows the damage from the events of 28 January, when longstanding grievances erupted into battles between (...)