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ABU QIR — Raghab Masoud, a 27-year-old employee at Abu Qir power station, was on his way to work when he was killed in clashes Saturday in Abu Qir city, east of Alexandria, after a trigger-happy security officer fired live bullets at hundreds...
The blood-stained face of a fallen soldier and the seeping red that covers the floor around him fill the front-page photograph of the Freedom and Justice party newspaper. “This blood is my blood,” the caption reads.
Wednesday’s...
As Prime Minister Hesham Qandil was unveiling the new Cabinet, unrest ensued in parts of the country.
One person died outside Cairo’s Nile City towers in violence between the complex and the slum behind it, clashes between Muslims and...
Not much in the new small-to-medium-sized supermarket Zad hints at its religious or political affiliation. But the store, sitting unassumingly in Nasr City, is one of 15 branches recently opened by the Shaters, a wealthy and influential...
Three weeks ago, Gehad El Haddad divided his time between volunteering for the Muslim Brotherhood and heading the Cairo office of the Clinton Climate Initiative, a nongovernmental organization set up by the former American president.
Mixing...
The Egyptian Business Development Association, led by Muslim Brotherhood businessman Hassan Malek, held a Ramadan iftar for its members on 28 July. Malek used it as an opportunity to update fellow businessmen about the association’s latest...
When Hesham Qandil, a low-profile minister, was announced as the new prime minister two days ago, the question on everyone’s mind was: “Who is he?” Today the papers ask: Who else will be in the new government? The subject of...
President Mohamed Morsy is seeking to use public spending to build a base of support in diverse sectors of society, but inflation and political deadlock threaten to sink his plans.
Morsy has promised a 15 percent social allowance rise to the basic...
Since explorers first found natural gas beneath Egypt’s sand and water, the government has struggled to manage its relationship with the foreign companies who manage the extraction of that gas.
The exports which those companies make possible...
The simple act of turning on a stove can mean two very different things for Egyptian families.
In one case, the turn of a stove knob ignites a stream of Egyptian-made natural gas from a pipe, giving forth a steady blue flame. In another, a knob on...
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