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I will not be able to do justice to the life of Hanaa Abdelfattah by writing here, for I only met him just over a year ago. I had the great privilege of accompanying him in some of his final days on this earth. At the hospital. In his home.
In...
Former employees of the closed Amonsito factory have ended their sit-in, following Wednesday's tentative agreement for overdue early retirement payment to the workers from Banque Misr, the factory's creditor.
The workers have been occupying the...
In the summer of 2008, the so-called “food price crisis” took Egypt by storm. Drastically rising food prices made headlines and left a population devastated by the burden of increased food costs. While the Egyptian media has now stopped covering the...
Many residents of Fayoum consider their governorate a microcosm of Egypt. With Bedouins, farmers and urban dwellers, the place offers glimpses of different Egyptian social groups.
Villages west of Fayoum experience a phenomenon that is...
In the heat of the day, about 30 workers from the Amonsito textile factory huddled under the shade of a tree.
“We are not workers, we are rejects,” the factory union leader Khaled el-Shishawy, who is known simply as sheikh Khaled told Al-Masry Al-...
Kareem el-Beheiry was 20 years old when he first took part in a labor strike in December 2006.
"I didn't know what a strike was," said el-Beheiry, the Mahalla Textile Factory's first blogger.
The next day he saw a scene that changed his life. "I saw...
On 19 April, the streets of Cairo were once again lined with sit-ins. Within a 1km radius, six different groups--bereft of confidence in those appointed to represent them--staged protests in an effort to air their grievances.
TANTA FLAXS AND OILS...
On 13 May 2008 the bulldozers came for the homes in the Tosson neighborhood on the northern tip of Alexandria.
The families could do little to resist the over fifty trucks filled with Central Security forces that arrived with bulldozers and trucks...
After a 21-day sit-in outside the gates of Egypt’s parliament building, workers of the Amonsito textile factory finally reached a settlement with the government on 21 March. According to the agreement, compensation payments were to be made on...
Alexandria--At 2 AM on 3 December, 2009 Abdallah Abdel Aziz opened the door in response to a loud knock on the family’s front door. The six-year-old was completely unaware of the danger that was about to follow.
About a dozen members of the...
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Opinion articles
Egypt’s actions in Gaza have been a source of confusion for some time. But confusing as it may seem, the Egyptian government's policy is part of a purposeful campaign by a two-faced regime.
Four factors shape the Egypt authorities’...
