Three people have died and three others have been wounded in a gunfight between two families – one Muslim and the other Christian – in the southern city of Sohag.
Eyewitnesses said the fighting started on Monday, when a Christian hit a Muslim with (...)
A number of policy experts, speaking exclusively to Al-Masry Al-Youm, have dismissed the cabinet reshuffle currently underway as a "patchwork," saying the new government cannot be described as a coalition government.
The experts expect that the new (...)
Ahmed Ezz, the ruling National Democratic Party's secretary for organizational affairs, visited Monday the six victims wounded in the Naga Hammadi incident earlier this week, in which a young man opened fire on local churchgoers.
Ezz sat with the (...)
Enough cosmetic reforms. If it is to meet the twin challenges of a rapidly changing world and a revolutionised job market, the Egyptian education system is in need of a total overhaul, argues Talaat Abdel-Malek*
The problems bedevilling public (...)
The government's role as caretaker can only be reconciled with the requisites of economic reform if the prevalent public sector mentality is relinquished. Talaat Abdel-Malek* writes
The government has repeatedly made statements that it is proceeding (...)
Egypt should maximise its use of available foreign aid, but, with a long history as a recipient, must avoid falling into its traps, argues Talaat Abdel-Malek*
Foreign aid is one of those topics that have provided ample room for discussion and (...)
In the second of a two-part article, Talaat Abdel-Malek continues to fit the remaining pieces of the puzzle
Last week's article presented an empirical profile of Egypt's export performance since the early 1980s, and compared it with the performance (...)
In the first of a two-part article, Talaat Abdel-Malek* argues that the unsatisfactory performance of the Egyptian export sector is the result of a complexity of political, social, cultural, as well as economic, factors
The setting: A country's (...)