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Wednesday's papers focused much of their coverage on three main developments: a mass march led by Egyptian women against the abuse of female protesters by security forces, a new million person protest planned in Tahrir and other squares against...
Some 40 activists involved in the “Occupy Cabinet” sit-in have been transferred to hospital after suffering from food poisoning, apparently caused by free food handed out to protesters on Wednesday afternoon.
According to eye-witness...
The Wadi Degla Natural Protectorate, a geological formation in southeast Cairo that is over 50 million years old, has recently come under threat from illegal quarrying and sand extraction operations. Industrial trucks and loaders have left trails of...
Thursday's papers focus their news coverage on two chief political developments announced Wednesday ― results from the parliamentary elections, and designated Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri's new cabinet. Islamists' strong...
During ongoing anti-military protests that erupted last week, a clear divide has emerged between the Gandhis and the Guevaras, in other words, the thousands who chant and march peaceably in Tahrir Square and the hundreds who throw rocks, bottles and...
After a busy and shaky first day, elections in Helwan flowed smoothly on the second. Voters in this working-class industrial district queued up outside schools which had been converted into polling stations. Campaigners and election monitors...
In 1964, during the height of “Arab Socialist” President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s popularity, a new constitution was drafted that included a 50 percent quota for “workers and farmers” serving in the parliament. Forty-seven...
The field hospitals, clinics and makeshift pharmacies that began to reappear downtown following Saturday’s violent police crackdown on protester encampments are once again mushrooming in and around Tahrir Square.
The demand for easily...
A local act to look out for is El Zabaleen, a seven-piece band formed in April 2010. Their unique instrumentation gives them a novel and catchy sound.
In Arabic, El Zabaleen means “the garbage collectors.”
When they first came together...
Friday's newspapers cover the fire-fighting and rescue operation in the Red Sea that saved over 1200 passengers from a raging inferno aboard a ferry; the controversy surrounding the deputy prime minister's draft for supra-constitutional...
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