Pakinam Amer
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en
Former senior reporter and travel editor.
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Most of Monday's newspapers, including state-run papers Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar, lead with news that the Tanta Misdemeanors Appeal Court has decided to postpone two appeals in what is now known as the "lawyers case" until 4 July.
The appeals came...
This article represents the first part of a series on the question of Islamic radicalism on British campuses
“I'm not angry; I am anger. I'm not dangerous; I am danger,” poet Amir Sulaiman bellowed into the microphone before a Muslim audience of...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been discussing "lifting the siege off Gaza" with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, government-run Al-Ahram newspaper reports, peppering its front page with more latest news on...
A convoy bound for Gaza, organised by nine Muslim Brotherhood and independent parliamentarians, is on its way to the Rafah crossing point, said Muslim Brotherhood MP Mohamed el-Beltagy, leader of the convoy. El-Beltagy, speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm...
We did not want to wake up that morning. We knew it was our last in Shalateen, and we would soon be leaving. Our motivation to prepare our belongings faded and the will to get going disappeared. We dragged our bags to the car and spent more time...
As I sat among women from the Beshariyya "Beja" tribe in a secluded spot in the mountains where tents were set up for a wedding, 150km west of Shalateen, a small bowl of henna paste was passed around. The dye was dark in color and the paste was...
We stood under the harsh sun waiting for our turn at the workshop. One of our tires was flat. We had been kindly alerted to the fact by a truck driver and we needed to fix the tire before we could go anywhere. The workshop was small. A car radio...
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) on Thursday released a list of the candidates it plans to field for June elections for Egypt's Shura Council, the upper, consultative chamber of parliament. But the group's election platform, along with which Cairo...
The air was thick inside the small apartment as a rusty ceiling fan revolved sluggishly. We were at our hosts' residence. They were three men in their 30s who moved to Shalateen for work several years ago. At first it seemed that they were reluctant...
For the past few years Egypt's labor movement has been sending shock waves through the country, as the number of workers involved in strikes and protests has surpassed anything Egypt has seen in decades. Amid all this enters Nagi Rashad, the man...
