Mohamed and Lamia's 13-year marriage has been blessed with four daughters, but they still feel their family isn't complete.
“We ache for a beautiful healthy baby boy,” says Mohamed. “I started hoping for a baby boy when my wife got pregnant the (...)
It didn't take Ahmed's classmates long to realise he was different.
While the other five year olds were boisterous and playful, he was reserved. He sat alone and did not talk much. Puzzled and a little disturbed, his fellow pupils told their parents (...)
In Cairo's chaotic streets, Sukara's agonised wails drowned in the blare of car horns.
Abandoned in a pile of household garbage within sight of a mosque and a cafe, it was three days before anyone in the working class neighbourhood offered help. (...)
As the sun rose on Cairo Monday morning, Egyptians across the country held their breath, bracing for anticipated clashes.
The trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi was set to start at 10am at the Police Academy on the outskirts of Cairo.
Morsi was (...)
The Church of the Virgin in the Geziret Al-Warraq district was teeming with guests.
A wedding had just finished, and another was about to start. Guests were standing outside the church gate waiting for the bride, Catherine, who had just finished at (...)
A middle-aged man stands with a picture of his smiling son in his hand.
He approaches a group of local men and gives them the picture.
“This is my son, have you seen him?” the man asks.
An elderly man in the group takes the pictures and looks at it (...)
Despite decades of planning for Egypt's eventual transition into an Islamic state, only two years of post-revolution politics appear to have put paid to the Muslim Brotherhood's longed-for Islamist renaissance
As Egypt's first freely chosen (...)
“What's been done will be done again.”
This is a line from the Bible that has taken on a special resonance as Egypt's Christians weigh up yet another attack on their homes and places of worship.
This time the assault took place in early April in the (...)
It didn't take Ahmed's classmates long to realise he was different.
While the other five year olds were boisterous and playful, he was reserved. He sat alone and did not talk much. Puzzled and a little disturbed, his fellow pupils told their parents (...)
Outside the safe house, the mob was pounding on the door. Ten girls were inside, cowering in fear. One had passed out and lay motionless on the floor.
The girls had been rescued from Tahrir Square after a mob of men attacked them. One was stripped; (...)
Several thousand protesters are marching to the Sidi Gaber district in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, blocking one side of the corniche road, to commemorate the second anniversary of the "Friday of Anger", January 28 2011.
Ahram Online's (...)
Thousands of protesters converging from the Qaed Ibrahim mosque and Victoria Square on the Sidi Gaber district in central Alexandria have blocked off Abu-Qir boulevard with rubbish bins and bonfires.
Other groups of protesters are sitting on two of (...)
'Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!' That was the cry that echoed through Egypt during the 18 days of the revolution. In early 2011, Mubarak was still in power, controlling the country with an iron fist. But after three decades, Egyptians had had enough and (...)
For three weeks, Mahmoud Nakhla has been driving frequently from his hometown of Suez, a seaport city on the north coast, to Cairo to join the anti-government protests.
Sometimes he would go to the iconic Tahrir Square in Downtown Cairo. Other times (...)
Wafaa Magdy, newspaper seller ##
I will vote 'yes' in favor of the new constitution. I like many articles, especially the one that says widowed and divorced women will receive pensions. I also think it is important to have stability in the country. (...)
Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered at Egypt's presidential palace and in Tahrir Square Tuesday to protest a draft constitution and a recent decree by President Mohamed Morsi giving him sweeping powers.
"This constitution is all wrong. It (...)
Residents of Damanhour in the Nile Delta agree that Islam Masoud, whose battered body arrived at the city's hospital this week, was only 15 years old when he died – but that's about all they agree on.
Thousands of residents took part in Masoud's (...)
As Egypt's ongoing political battle heats up, Egypt bid farewell on Monday to two new 'martyrs,' aged 15 and 16, in two emotional and painful funerals – one on Mohamed Mahmoud Street near Cairo's Tahrir Square and the other in the Nile Delta city of (...)
The building looked like it had been abandoned for decades. It was an island in ahuge pile of rubbish. Grey paint was peeling off its walls and a sewage drain had erupted near the entrance filling the air with an abominable stench.
The only (...)
In a shock move, Muslim Brotherhood veteran Essam El-Erian submits his resignation from President Mohamed Morsi's presidential advisory team on Sunday as well as his position as deputy of the Freedom and Justice Party.
FJP official spokesperson (...)
Muslim Brotherhood heavyweight Mohamed Saad El-Katatni has become the first elected president of the group's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) after members of the party's general assembly cast their ballots on Friday.
El-Katatni won with 67 per cent (...)
Two leading Muslim Brotherhood members - Essam El-Erian and Saad El-Katatni - will compete on Friday for top post in the ruling Freedom and Justice Party. Ahram Online takes a closer look at the candidates
The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) will (...)
All it took was one highly-publicised article by a judge to launch what has come to be known as the "Judges Intifada." In 2005 - and after years of pressure - Mubarak finally agreed to let judges supervise the presidential elections, which were to (...)
Tarek El-Tayeb, 25, had always hated Christians. He was known among his friends as Tarek “El-Salafi” as he followed the ultraorthodox school of Islam.
"I joined the Salafist school of Islam when I was 13 years old," remembers El-Tayeb. "According to (...)
An Egyptian lawyer filed a lawsuit on Tuesday aimed at blocking YouTube in Egypt until all anti-Islamic content is removed from the video-sharing website, which is owned by internet-services giant Google.
Appeals lawyer Mohamed Hamed Salem said he (...)