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Amid heightened feelings of both anger and sorrow, a funeral service held for Fathi Saeed Ebeid--the 71-year-old Coptic man shot dead by an off-duty policeman aboard a train in Upper Egypt yesterday--was held in the Mar Youhana Church in Cairo's...
The seventh Forum for the Future commences Wednesday in Doha, Qatar, amid criticism from Arab human rights NGOs.
The forum was founded in June 2004 as an initiative by the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized states with the aim of promoting human...
All Egyptian newspapers published front page headlines on Sunday’s Sudan referendum on the secession of the south. The event’s significance for Egypt, Africa and the US is reflected in Al-Ahram’s headlines: "Day of destiny in Sudan" and "Referendum...
Cairo’s teeming Shubra district, which has a significantly large number of Christian residents, is preparing to celebrate Coptic Christmas amid a particularly charged atmosphere this year. Following the Alexandria church bombing on New Year...
The New Year's Eve bombing of a church in Alexandria has generated a host of unfounded rumors--about security threats and sectarian unrest, among other things--on the Egyptian street.
Reports of a terrorist sniper picking off policemen in Cairo...
Egyptian newspapers feature front-page headlines on ongoing protests by Coptic Christians across the country. Copts and Muslims sympathetic to their cause have been protesting against the Alexandria church bombing since its occurrence on New Year...
Protests continued throughout Cairo on Sunday to denounce the New Year’s Eve bombing of a church in the coastal city of Alexandria that killed 21 people and injured scores of others.
At a protest held on Sunday afternoon on the Nile corniche...
A new parliament dominated by the ruling party was elected in 2010, while a new parallel parliament composed of opposition and independent MPs ousted in these elections is also being established. Nationwide elections held for the two houses of...
The year 2010 was a bad one for journalistic freedom in Egypt, and, according to the forecasts of some media analysts, 2011 promises to be no better--if not actually worse. Watchdogs and rights groups claimed that the country's media and press...
In a historic move on Wednesday evening, representatives of Egypt's technical workers formally gave birth to the country's second independent trade union to be established since 1957. More than 1000 technical workers received the news with...
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