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Articles of the author Rana Allam
A jihadi in the making
We used to work together in the same company during the 25 January Revolution, a genius upper-middle class young man in his mid-twenties and I was his manager. We would run into each other in Tahrir Square chanting the same slogans of "bread, (...)

26 - 05 - 2015
Justice Minister Al-Zind: a perfect representation of the times
"We [judges] are the masters and the rest are the slaves" is indeed the most memorable quote by Egypt's new Justice Minister Ahmed Al-Zind, head of the Judges' Club. The rest of this sentence as said by Al-Zind during a phone interview on a TV show (...)

20 - 05 - 2015
Certain entropy
Since the revolution and until a few months ago, with every news item published, Egyptians of all walks of life would begin analysing and discussing the significance of said news item. Different opinions and agitated discussions would be heard on (...)

26 - 04 - 2015
Police Day and human rights
"History will always remember policemen's role in keeping the peace and security, and protecting human rights." This is one of the statements Al-Sisi made in his 30-minute police-glorifying speech during the celebration of Police Day which coincides (...)

25 - 01 - 2015
Better than Syria?
It was back in the late 1980s when I, a young teenager then, visited my Syrian side of the family. In the garden of a family member's villa, a group of us, all teenagers, gathered late at night and started telling jokes. The Syrians love the (...)

08 - 10 - 2014
‘Catastrophic' it is!
Amnesty International said last week that Egypt is witnessing a "catastrophic" decline in human rights. Indeed, human rights conditions in Egypt are currently a disaster, but the "catastrophe" Egyptians are witnessing these days is (...)

05 - 07 - 2014
In search of alternatives
"Who is the alternative?" This was indeed the most repeated and frustrating question asked by the pro-Sisi camp during the past two weeks, before and during the surreal presidential election that brought a military man to power after three years of (...)

07 - 06 - 2014
Al-Sisi's austerity request
"Egypt's youth is its hope; they need to give and not expect to take anything now." "Egypt needs a lot from us. Egypt's youth should not be thinking about when will they be able to get married or when will they ‘live', they need to build the country (...)

17 - 03 - 2014
The future of the two little girls
A couple of weeks ago, on my road back home using 6 October Bridge, I managed to avoid hitting two young girls – girls so little as to be invisible unless right in front of the car. For a full week, I saw them selling tissues in the same spot, and (...)

03 - 03 - 2014
The Bachmann dilemma
When I got into the newsroom Tuesday morning, a heated discussion between my colleagues was ongoing about whether or not to publish Michele Bachmann's piece (which was sent to us by her office). Most of the young democracy-passionate reporters were (...)

18 - 12 - 2013
Four detainees arrested for putting up anti-Protest Law posters released on bail
The Haram Prosecution ordered on Wednesday the release of four men arrested on Tuesday while putting up posters against the newly passed and highly controversial Protest Law. The detainees were referred to prosecution on Tuesday. They faced the (...)

12 - 12 - 2013
Keeping Egyptians in check
A 16 year old boy, the son of an acquaintance, went to attend the Ghana-Egypt match dressed in an Al-Ahly t-shirt and holding a fireworks stick. The boy watched the match, left and was taking a cab when the police arrested him, charging him with (...)

25 - 11 - 2013
Humiliating Mohamed Mahmoud
The thing about the Mohamed Mahmoud clashes specifically is the mere fact that those who had never joined a protest even through the 18 glorious days took to that one. They did so not because they wanted to grab power or even present a political (...)

12 - 11 - 2013
Fahmy meets Belgian delegation
img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.dailynewsegypt.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Fahmy-meets-Belgian-delegation.jpg?fit=300%2C300" class="attachment-medium" alt="Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy accused the European Union (EU) of being late to condemn (...)

22 - 08 - 2013
mansour
img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.dailynewsegypt.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mansour1.jpg?fit=300%2C300" class="attachment-medium" alt="In a televised speech Wednesday night, Interim President Adly Mansour pledged "calculated steps" against (...)

08 - 08 - 2013
The ‘democracy' that was
"Egypt needs to revert back to the democratic path," is a common line thrown in our faces from every Tom, Dick and Harry across the world. Egypt's leaders diplomatically respond with the roadmap of election, constitution drafting and the rest of the (...)

05 - 08 - 2013
German FM meets Adly Mansour
v.l. Nabil FAHMY, Aussenminister von Aegypten, Bundesaussenminister Guido Westerwelle, FDP, Adly MANSOUR, Praesident von Aegypten, in Kairo, 01.08.2013. Copyright: Ute Grabowsky/ photothek.net [Tel. +493028097440 - www.photothek.net - Jegliche (...)

02 - 08 - 2013
The isolated tent city of Rabaa
A friend had to go to the police station by the Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in for some documents, and there was no escape but to go through the thousands of protesters stationed in front of the Nasr City police station. My friend said: "it is a city of a (...)

16 - 07 - 2013
The media talks to ghosts
On Thursday 4 July, state owned news agency MENA and several international agencies, reported that the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, was arrested along with his deputy Khairat El-Shater. We published the news. On Friday 5 (...)

09 - 07 - 2013
A not-so-silent majority
Back in 25 January 2011, the revolutionaries who started the uprising were later joined by the Muslim Brotherhood, who contributed in relatively increasing the number of protesters. But what made all the difference was the participation of what is (...)

02 - 07 - 2013
Islamists conference
img src="http://i1.wp.com/www.dailynewsegypt.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Islamists-conference.jpg?fit=300%2C300" class="attachment-medium" alt="The Coalition of Islamist Parties in Minya held a popular conference titled "The Revolutionary (...)

20 - 06 - 2013
Kareem Saber
img src="http://i0.wp.com/www.dailynewsegypt.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Kareem-Saber.jpg?fit=300%2C300" class="attachment-medium" alt="Author Kareem Saber authored a collection of short stories in 2011 titled "Where is God?" (Public Domain (...)

13 - 06 - 2013
The Islamisation of a culture
For 23 years, Egypt's cultural scene was in the hands of Farouq Hosny. One can write volumes on the man, rumours mixed with truths until his reputation was completely ruined. What we do know though is that he was a lousy painter; he painted like a (...)

10 - 06 - 2013
A country afraid of its parliament
There is not one political faction that wants to hold parliamentary elections nowadays, except maybe the Salafis. Elections were expected to be held in the next few months, right after the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. However, everyone seems to be (...)

28 - 05 - 2013
Shi'as, Salafis... and Sheep
Living in a country populated by people both gifted with a strong sense of humour and beset by stark contradictions, following the news can put one in a predicament of whether to laugh out loud or shed bloody tears. I thought this week I would like (...)

20 - 05 - 2013
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