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Egypt’s newspapers on Wednesday focus their coverage on a multitude of controversies surrounding the People’s Assembly and its draft laws, along with intensely heated presidential campaigning, Egyptians voting from embassies abroad and...
Egypt’s extra-long staple cotton, acclaimed to be the world’s finest, has been in a state of rapid decline for the past 20 years. The production of Egyptian cotton is threatened with demise, along with the country’s textile...
All of Egypt's daily papers focus on the bloody clashes which have been taking place in the Abbasseya neighborhood of Cairo — especially the violent clashes of Wednesday morning which left between 11 and 20 people dead. Figures...
In Cairo's Tahrir Square, around 1,000 labor activists, workers and unionists celebrated Egypt's second Labor Day since the abdication of Hosni Mubarak. Turnout was low in comparison to last year's celebrations, which had included...
With the ongoing marginalization of Egypt’s working classes, the revolutionary demands of “bread, freedom, and social justice” remain distant goals. On this second Labor Day since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, numerous labor...
The top news stories featured in Egyptian newspapers on Tuesday address the politicization of the Egyptian state’s economic and diplomatic relations with Israel on a new natural gas export contract, the military junta’s nationalistic...
At just 40 years old, Khaled Ali Omar is Egypt’s youngest presidential candidate. For well over a decade, the popularity of this labor and human rights lawyer has centered around socialist, activist and labor circles.
The fiery leftist legal...
Major political questions were turned into legislation this week in Parliament, especially with the ongoing dilemmas of the political exclusion of former regime figures and the reformation of the Constituent Assembly that will write the country...
Blows to freedom of expression have been ongoing in the year that lapsed since the 25 January revolution, causing observers to worry about the direction of an uprising that mainly called for the establishment of different liberties.
A common pre-...
Egypt's daily papers Wednesday focus their coverage on three main developments — a court ruling against the Islamist-dominated Constituent Assembly, the ongoing controversies surrounding the presidential nominations of Salafi candidate...
