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A 12-car train carrying hundreds of Central Security Forces conscripts left Upper Egypt for Cairo on Monday afternoon. Before midnight, the train derailed in Giza, leaving 19 of its passengers dead and another 120 wounded.
This is not an unusual...
Outside a courthouse built to resemble an ancient Egyptian sun temple, a group of protestors chants against their “Pharaoh.” Cairo’s Supreme Constitutional Court is scheduled to announce today its ruling in two highly contentious...
We met the maestro at the bus stop. I hadn’t known what to expect; face-paint, maybe, or a necklace made of body parts. It was an ignorant assumption to make, influenced as much by my inexperience with shamans as it was by the surreal trip we...
After a week of tumultuous polarization, Egyptians headed to the ballot boxes in what would be their eighth election since the 25 January revolution.
Like a chorus to a turbulent transition, the voting process became a recurrent scene to Egyptians...
Despite its location, there hasn’t been much coverage of the Salafi sit-in outside Media Production City; possibly due to the fact that its members are calling for a potentially violent purge of all “corrupt” and “ant-Islamic...
While most opposition forces are opting to vote “no” in the referendum on the constitution held on Saturday, boycott is also considered an option by some.
The opposition does not only reject the constitution for its content, but also for...
“Shave your beard and show us your face, so we can see your true disgrace: you look just like Mubarak!”
It didn’t take long on Tuesday for protesters to fill Tahrir Square, or the air above it with similar chants aimed at Mohamed...
LUXOR — Despite the fact that it now hosts two international film festivals, the city of Luxor hadn’t seen a working movie theater in almost three decades. So when Mokhlis Mikhael opened the doors to the City Mall Cinema in June,...
It doesn’t really matter what type of music Lazzy Lung performs. After watching the band open for the Black Lips at the Cairo Jazz Club last week, it’s hard to imagine the Beirut-based foursome disappointing a crowd, which can seem as...
They didn’t set anything on fire, and nobody got arrested — both signs of commendable restraint by a band known for the type of onstage antics likely to get them kicked out of most venues and, as was the case in 2009, India. But things...
