In recurrent speeches following mass protests against a controversial declaration through which President Mohamed Morsy claimed sweeping powers for himself, the country's leader distinguished between “good opposition” and “bad opposition.” In a 23 (...)
As part of a larger campaign to demand that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces relinquish power to civilians, activists have launched initiatives calling for the boycott of army-produced goods and services.
Several initiatives to compile (...)
US-Egypt relations have soured following the latter's recent blows to its most important benefactor. For the first time, US aid to Egypt appears at stake. At the outset of revolutionary upheaval last year, voices in the US media echoed optimism and (...)
In 2011, The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) sent the Egyptian people 93 letters via its official Facebook page. The first letter opened with the announcement that the SCAF will rule the country during the transitional period in the wake (...)
Since October when the army forcibly dispersed a peaceful protest at Maspero, claiming the lives of 27 mostly Coptic protesters, it has become customary for the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to hold a press conference after a (...)
When debate around a national salvation government (NSG) raged in the press two week ago, many opponents advanced various hostile arguments to the idea.
The call for an NSG came on the heels of six days of clashes that started on 19 November in (...)
Behind the growing nostalgia for a once orderly and beautiful Cairo lies an alarming metamorphosis that is scarcely brought up in the Egyptian press: Cairo is being restructured around elite consumption patterns causing the exclusion of the majority (...)