Three years ago, the idea of revolution was under harsh attack in Egypt under the motto, "Egypt isn't Tunisia." The "Jasmine uprising," as it was called at the time, forced Tunisia's dictator to escape to Saudi Arabia. The idea of revolution wasn't (...)
After Mubarak's overthrow in February 2011, many imagined and others wanted us to believe that his regime was overthrown. However, developments that followed have proven otherwise and it became clear that to achieve this there is still a long path (...)
Timemagazine chose the people of Egypt as its cover story in the last issue. The magazine divided a magnificent photograph of the masses on the streets demanding the ouster of Mohamed Morsi into two: one titled "World's best protesters" and the (...)
There is a new-old view that politics is the monopoly of senior power circles, those who plot for and against them, those who are close to or ejected from them. It is an approach to politics that only focus on what is happening behind the scenes (...)
The political alliance that currently rules Egypt – that is, the Muslim Brotherhood, old regime remnants and some businessmen – agrees with the opposing members of the dissolved NDP on one fundamental matter: 30 June is a counter-revolution. It is (...)
The fundamental interests that controlled the economy during the Mubarak era have not changed. They prevented Mubarak from making much-needed health sector reforms and today they stop Morsi from taking these measures
Economic austerity kills and (...)
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“The journey seeks to dig a canal in a desert covering thousands of miles to connect the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea, which would make Europe the neighbour of India and shortens the distance to it. This is the task Father Prosper Enfantin (...)
A zombie (the living dead as we see them in hundreds of Hollywood films) is a moving corpse driven by the dark powers. According to voodoo beliefs in West Africa, a dead person could be kept alive by the bokor (magician) and be under the bokor's (...)
“Qatari funds are a short-term boost because of Egypt's current economic condition, but will they help it recover?” That is the question Bloomberg news agency, specialising in financial and economic issues, put to Said Hirsh, the financial analyst (...)
President Morsi's government led by Hisham Qandil insists the controversial $4.8 billion IMF loan has no strings attached. Even though the loan was frozen, after the government had tentatively signed it in December and promised it would not harm the (...)
Almost all political forces are waiting for it: the Muslim Brotherhood, ElBaradie, Amr Moussa. All economic plans seek it and are built on it.
In fact, politics itself is tailored for the sake of foreign investment: reconciling with figures from the (...)
Egypt exports strawberries and grapes, but imports wheat and beans. There can never be social justice until the country produces enough wheat and without a revolution in Egypt's agricultural policies to serve small-scale farmers
US Ambassador Anne (...)
The Arabic definition of feloul depends on the sentence, but basically covers an array of negative adjectives, including defeated, barren, broken or bankrupt.
Three press statements by senior figures in President Morsi's regime in less than two (...)
Whenever politicians differ, they refer to the simple citizen — the man on the street, the people, the average citizen, Egypt's "true sons," etc. Some may say, “He expressed his opinion through the ballot box, he has already chosen. That's the end (...)
In a film nominated for seven Oscars and that won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998, a bloody and very bizarre battle unfolds for control over a mound in an isolated uninhabited island of marked strategic importance in a war between (...)
After 373 people died in a train crash in Al-Ayyat in 2002 and again when 57 died in Qalyub in 2006, people demanded the overhaul of Egypt's crumbling railway system. The same calls have been made following the recent spate of train disasters in (...)
In 2004, the Muslim Brotherhood parliament bloc described the QIZ agreement as a 'serious threat to national security', today, the government appointed by a Brotherhood president, wants to expand the economic deal with Israel
Two weeks ago, an (...)
In a statement to Al-Shorouk newspaper ten days ago, Egypt's Minister of Finance Momtaz El-Said said that Prime Minister Kandil's cabinet will restart negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for loans "based on the economic programme that (...)
In one week, there have been three calls of a new kind to mobilise the street. They are united by a common theme that is unrelated to the constitution or elections or transfer of power or any of these key political issues that have dominated the (...)
“Mahmoud Bey”, parliamentarian and businessman, istalking to a group that includes senior officers in the security apparatus, atwhat appears to be a party just before the January 1977 bread riots. To thesound of background music more befitting a (...)
The American magazineBusiness Week,published by Bloomberg, describes Hassan Malek, a 53-year-old Muslim Brotherhood millionaire businessman as follows: “Mild-mannered and serious in conservative suits, Malek would easily blend in with the Wall (...)
The military prosecution on Thursday referred 25 suspects out of 146 for expedited military trials in connection with the alleged attempted storming of the Israeli Embassy by protesters on Sunday.
According to the military prosecution, the suspects (...)
Reda Edward, the new chairman of prominent independent daily Al-Dostour, said he would not discuss the demands of the paper's reporters--scores of whom are currently staging an open-ended sit-in--with the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate.
“The paper's (...)
CAIRO: Egypt s main stock indexes rose on Monday for the second day in a row on continuing local institutional interest in big caps led by the Commercial International bank (CIB), brokers said.
The benchmark CASE 30 index gained 0.79 percent to (...)
CAIRO: Egypt s main stock indexes inched higher on Sunday, breaking a four session losing streak, with local institutions buying and investors optimistic over a near approval of the US bank bailout plan, brokers said.
Local institutions were back (...)