Pakinam Amer
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en
Former senior reporter and travel editor.
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When we looked at a map of Egypt, the town of Shalateen and the Halayeb triangle by the Red Sea along the border with Sudan stood out as the most remote spots in Egypt. Knowing nothing about them nor anyone who has been there, we decided that was...
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights' study on sectarianism, released Sunday, gathers evidence, eyewitness accounts and statistics of violent events against Coptic Christians and Baha'is in an attempt to provide a clearer picture of what...
For those of you who want to lead a healthy lifestyle and lose weight but cringe at the thought of ditching the mouth-watering chocolate bars and the calorie-packed take-out food, be assured, you can get used to anything, including super healthy...
Next month, Egypt will renew the state of emergency that has been in effect in the country since 1981. Protests are already raging, the most intense of which were on 6 April, when demonstrations by pro-democracy activists were violently throttled...
Last week the Muslim Brotherhood's spokesperson Mohamed Saad el-Katatney announced that the banned group will field candidates for 20 percent of seats in the Shura Council, saying that participation is part of "the general policy that the...
The Muslim Brotherhood's daily bulletin carried news of the release of 20 of their members in Sharqiya Governorate, as well as the fresh arrests of six members in the same province, and 12 in Beheira for protests against renewed Israeli...
With the political opposition renewing calls for the amendment of Egypt's constitution--particularly those articles pertaining to presidential elections--the question remains as to whether pressure alone will be effective, since, according to legal...
With cases of corrupt ministers and members of parliament flooding the newspapers in February, the question begs itself: can the government keep its members disciplined, especially now that several independent and opposition MPs have formed a front...
Around 250 Coptic Christians gathered in front of Cairo's Court of Cassation Wednesday to call for the immediate release of Christians detained during the rioting that followed the 6 January Naga Hammadi slayings, which claimed the lives of six...
United States funding of civil society organizations, a controversial matter among pro-democracy activists in recent years, has become an even trickier issue with the lack of information on non-governmental organizations' financial resources, in...
