Pakinam Amer
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en
Former senior reporter and travel editor.
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On Thursday, at the third session of the retrial of construction magnate Hisham Talat Mostafa for the 2008 murder of a Lebanese singer, the criminal court heard the first witness: a technical expert from the Interior Ministry who explained how shots...
The retrial of real-estate mogul and ruling party bigwig Hisham Talaat Mostafa resumed on Wednesday with prosecutors introducing what they called "incriminating evidence" against the defendant and his alleged accomplice in the 2008 murder of...
Getting ready for the 12-hour drive from Cairo to the Halayeb triangle is not an easy task, namely because it is a sensitive area, about which there is little public information. We were not able to find simple things like weather forecasts,...
An Egyptian Supreme State Security court on Wednesday sentenced 26 defendants who had been charged with membership in the Lebanese resistance group Hizbullah, conspiracy and terrorism charges.
Four of the indicted were given life sentences, while...
The retrial of ex-MP and construction mogul Hisham Talaat Mostafa began on Monday, when he pleaded not guilty to the brutal murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim in the summer of 2008.
Mostafa, 50, was convicted in the first trial of ordering...
Every town has its story. Shalateen's is on the precipice of a turning point.
Like each of us, towns are born and eventually die. Their life stories mimic those of people, except they exist over a longer time period. They have ups and downs, and...
"WikiLeaks" appears to have roused some members of the US military from their lethargy after a video showing the 2007 killing of two Reuters journalists and several unarmed bystanders in Iraq was released on its website earlier this month. One day...
Reports of a 17-year-old Christian boy converting to Islam sparked protests in the province of Beni Suef, 155 km south of Cairo, on Sunday night, a local priest told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Father George Wadie said that no less than a thousand Coptic...
Lawyers, human rights groups and relatives of the six victims of sectarian violence awaited a verdict on Sunday in the trial of the alleged culprits of the shootings that took place in early January--on the eve of Coptic Christmas--in the Upper...
The public beach in Shalateen was largely deserted, except for a few local Bedouin men, women and children lying on the sand, lazily strolling in the ankle-deep waters of the low tide, or listening to Gulfi music while preparing Bedouin-style coffee...
