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Although it wasn’t enforced during the first phase of the constitutional referendum on 15 December, President Mohamed Morsy's recent decree empowering the Armed Forces to arrest civilians is still worrying.
Issued on 9 December, Law 107/...
MAHALLA — As the initial results of the first round of referendum voting rolled in, it became obvious how the residents of Gharbiya felt about the draft constitution.
A total of 52.1 percent in the governorate voted “no,” the...
Newspapers on Thursday focus their coverage on the death of Al-Fagr photojournalist Al-Husseini Abu Deif and the referendum on the draft constitution.
Abu Deif died Wednesday of birdshot injuries he sustained to the head on 5 December while covering...
Mahalla — The “Independent Republic of Greater Mahalla” was declared by thousands of angry locals on 7 December, following bloody clashes in the city’s center on 27 November between supporters and opponents of...
Struggling with increasing unemployment, an estimated 5 million Egyptians have long resorted to becoming self-employed street vendors, and make up a significant portion of the country’s vast informal business sector.
Unable to create enough...
“Don’t go there” and “Stay out for your own safety” have been the menacing messages from alarmist male protesters with which many women are welcomed into Tahrir Square, the cradle of the Egyptian revolution.
The...
Three developments top the news Wednesday in Egypt’s papers, including the massive anti-Morsy protests that flooded the presidential palace in Heliopolis on Tuesday, the ongoing constitutional crisis, and media strikes against the new...
Although it appeared less crowded than Tuesday’s million-person rally, Friday’s protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and elsewhere gathered hundreds of thousands.
Protesters demanded the revocation of President Mohamed Morsy’s...
Tuesday’s papers focus their top coverage on four main developments today: a host of rallies supporting and opposing President Morsy’s new constitutional declaration, the funeral processions for two teenage martyrs from the anti- and pro...
A controversial labor decree issued by President Mohamed Morsy on Sunday has been denounced and met with resistance from both the state-controlled workers’ federation and from independent unions.
Morsy’s decree No. 97/2012 ...
