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The expiration of Egypt’s state of emergency, a continued faceoff between the two remaining presidential candidates and another round of a petrol crisis are the dominant themes in Thursday’s papers.
A state of emergency that has been in...
Despite high praise from the Presidential Elections Commission for expressing the free will of the people, the first round vote for Egypt's next president has been criticized by international and local election observers who say that restricted...
The first day of the presidential election dominates today’s news, with images giving just as much of a sense of a paper’s political leaning as its written text. The coverage is mostly positive, and the ballot box is being associated...
A few days ahead of the commemoration of the Nakba, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the artists and activists partaking in this year’s Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), reiterated the need to visit Gaza as a manifestation of Arab...
Laila Soueif, a long-time Egyptian activist in her 50s and assistant professor at Cairo University, chuckles softly and humbly at the suggestion of being interviewed as a hunger striker for a piece prompted by the mass hunger strikes by Palestinian...
Update: PalFest organizers were granted on Thursday afternoon travel permits by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to travel to Gaza via Rafah. Participants will depart on Saturday morning to run a series of free public events and workshops in Gaza....
An issue that has enraged Parliament members in the Budget and Planning Committee over the last few months, and those fighting against corruption for over a year at the Central Auditing Organization (CAO), has been that of so-called “...
Nothing should be taken for granted when it comes to Egypt’s upcoming presidential election, especially considering Thursday’s news that Ahmed Shafiq, the last former prime minister under deposed President Hosni Mubarak, is back in the...
More than 90 percent of all companies in Egypt are micro enterprises, meaning they employ less than five people. At the same time, there is a sizeable gap between these micro and small enterprises and large companies or corporations: a phenomenon,...
One month after the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak fell, in March 2011, Hassan Malek was released from jail. He had spent four years and three months in prison, alongside 39 others, including Muslim Brotherhood leader and, until yesterday...
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