In 2010, Abdel Moneim Saeed, then the chairperson of state mouthpiece Al-Ahram, oversaw an outrageous bit of Photoshopping on the newspaper's front cover, when US President Barack Obama was replaced with Hosni Mubarak at the head of a group of (...)
During the particularly hair-raising moments of the revolution, when some of the popular committees manning checkpoints on the streets were taking their jobs extremely seriously and matters were more than a touch vigilante, I crossed paths with one (...)
A new government draft law on access to information appeared last week, and has been received with mixed reactions from civil society.
The process of drafting a freedom of information law — the first in the country's history — began last year, when (...)
President Mohamed Morsy has largely picked up where Hosni Mubarak left off in terms of media freedom. A case in point is the constitution.
Critics argue that the constitution, which was just approved by 63.8 percent, does not go far enough to (...)
A Cairo court sentenced activist Alber Saber to three years in prison for insulting Islam Wednesday.
Marg Misdemeanor Court found Saber guilty of "contempt of religion" after he allegedly posted online parts of the amateur film "Innocence of (...)
When I arrived in Heliopolis on Tuesday evening, protesters against President Mohamed Morsy were congregated in a square at the bottom of Merghany Street, apparently waiting for more numbers to arrive so that they could regroup and retake the (...)
Among the mourners and the angry at the march commemorating the first anniversary of the Maspero massacre, there was an earnest young man brandishing a sign that read, “Egyptian revolution supports Mitt Romney.”
It was an oddly incongruent forum for (...)
In the working-class neighborhood of Bulaq al-Dakror, a group of men gathered 28 July to prevent what they called a “fitna,” or discord, in Egypt.
“I'm creating an antibiotic for the Egyptian people. I'm trying to protect my society,” one protester, (...)
The political landscape over the past few weeks has largely been described as divided among an Islamist bloc, a military bloc and a third one that remains rather undefined.
The division was best manifested in the presidential runoff election, in (...)
The eponymously named mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, Freedom and Justice, is predictably triumphant Sunday morning, and even includes poetic verse eulogizing Mohamed Morsy entitled, “We're with you, hero.”
It crows that (...)
An Egyptian journalist was arrested in Khartoum Thursday while covering anti-government protests.
Salma El-Wardany, a 25-year-old reporter with Bloomberg news agency who also writes for Egyptian news website Al-Ahram Online and other publications (...)
Protesters gathered early on Thursday outside the Supreme Constitution Court ahead of its crucial rulings that dissolved the Islamist-dominated Parliament and ruled the exclusion of former regime figure Ahmed Shafiq from the presidential race (...)
In February 2011, protesters entered the State Security Investigation Services office in Nasr City, Cairo, and found ream upon ream of paperwork, some shredded, some intact. It was testimony to decades of laborious documentation of the activities of (...)
As the political deadlock over the formation of the committee that will write Egypt's constitution continues, MPs expressed their outrage at the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces this week.
People's Assembly Speaker Saad al-Katatny said that if (...)
In what it falsely claims is an exclusive, private daily Al-Shorouk declares on its front page that “[Ahmed] Shafiq is out of the presidential race.” In smaller writing, however, is a clarification that this is according to a report submitted by a (...)
The trial of 43 NGO workers was adjourned again on Tuesday until 4 July.
Nineteen US nationals, 14 Egyptians, five Serbians, two Germans and three citizens of other Arab countries are accused of receiving illegal funding from foreign organizations (...)
In an address to journalists on Saturday afternoon, former prime minister and presidential election frontrunner Ahmad Shafiq said the revolution has been stolen from the youth and that he will make sure to return it to them.
It was a very different (...)
One of the central demands of the 25 January revolution was for a government that respects civil liberties, unlike the decades of repressive governance that came before. In their electoral platforms, all of the leading presidential candidates are (...)
In the bad old days, presidential election campaigning in Egypt consisted of “here is Hosni Mubarak, you will vote for him,” with a slight variation in 2005 when the regime had an attack of democracy and allowed other Egyptian citizens to run in the (...)
They have been there for almost a month now, a little scrum of men and women who trickle out of the building's lobby like liquid leaking from a jar. The building, a tower block in the Cairo neighborhood of Dokki, houses the Iraqi Rafidain Bank, (...)
The New Cairo Court again adjourned the case of 43 people charged with working for American civil society organizations accused of taking foreign funds without government permission and stoking unrest in the country on Monday.
The session was the (...)
Go to any protest outside Tahrir Square today and you will inevitably hear onlookers grumbling about “April 6 youths destroying the country” — even when the group has no presence at the demonstration.
The April 6 Youth Movement's reputation doesn't (...)
Beds, drips and blankets are neatly stored away on one side of Qasr al-Dobara Church's courtyard, just in case.
During the repeated clashes of 2011, and the most recent violence near the Interior Ministry at the start of February, the courtyard was (...)
Parliament trundled along on Thursday, after a dramatic week of partisan squabbling over the constitution and who should write it.
On Saturday, a joint session of the People's Assembly and Shura Council elected the 100 members of the constituent (...)
Presidential candidate Hazem Abu Ismail has gained an almost legendary status online in the past week because of his very visible offline presence, in the form of posters showing his smiling image next to a promise to Egyptians that they “will live (...)