Pakinam Amer
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en
Former senior reporter and travel editor.
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Yousra Shaher’s furniture is not about aesthetics. “It’s mainly about the concept, the inspiration and what this concept means to me,” she says. An architect by training and a designer by profession, she talked to Al-Masry Al-Youm during a showcase...
Shalateen, Southern Egypt--The dispute between Egypt and Sudan over the Halayeb Triangle, which straddles the border between the two countries, has flared up again following recent Sudanese claims on the area.
On 30 June, Sudanese President Omar el-...
This article represents the first part of a series on the question of Islamic radicalism on British campuses
London--“I'm not angry; I am anger. I'm not dangerous; I am danger,” poet Amir Sulaiman bellowed into the microphone before a Muslim...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made a public appearance on Thursday at an air-force parade in the province of Sharqiyah. Live coverage of the event at the Air Force Academy was broadcast on state television in what observers see as an immediate...
Among widespread and continuing human rights abuses throughout Egypt in 2009, 12 people were tortured to death by police, according to the annual report of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR).
“We documented 63 cases of torture in...
Last November, two Asian Muslim university students were stabbed in central London on a Thursday evening after they were surrounded by more than 30 white and black youths. A passerby who tried to defend the students was knifed as well. ...
Are the Egyptian authorities, government, prosecutors and the Interior Ministry playing defense? A reading into their recent statements in the media--mainly the state-owned press and papers tagged as government mouthpieces--suggests that a change in...
Dominating the news today are protests by lawyers, escalating tension between police and Bedouin in Sinai, charges made against Alexandrian Khaled Saeed’s alleged torturers, and President Hosni Mubarak’s much-hyped one-day visit to Algeria.
On the "...
A 43-year-old single mother, identified in press reports as Seham Abdel-Salam, throttled her son to death with a towel, then wrote a suicide note before slitting her own wrists.
But Abdel-Salam didn't die. Instead, she bled for six hours, her child'...
After performing a second autopsy on the body of 28-year-old Khaled Saeed, the young man from Alexandria allegedly beaten to death by police on 6 June, state coroners concluded that the victim had died of asphyxiation rather than as a result of...
