News interviews

Swiss ambassador unhappy with minarets ban

The ambassador Dominique Verger Swiss Ambassador in Cairo
07 Dec 2009
In an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, Dominique Vorgler, the Swiss ambassador in Cairo, spoke about the Swiss ban on building minarets, how it all came about, and what it signifies for the Muslim world. Al-Masry Al-Youm: What is the real...
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A Holocaust survivor takes aim at Israel

07 Dec 2009
Hedy Epstein, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, is an outspoken critic of the Israeli government and military. As the daughter of anti-Zionist Jewish parents in Germany, she is no stranger to being an outsider. Although she has been...
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Q&A: Scholar explains Swiss minaret ban

Hussam Tammam, editor at Islamonline.net and researcher on Islamic movements.
06 Dec 2009
On 29 November, 57.5 percent of Swiss voters came out in favor of a referendum banning the construction of minarets in Switzerland. The vote, though controversial, does not lack legitimacy: 53.4 percent of eligible voters participated in...
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Where to sacrifice?

26 Nov 2009
With Eid el-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, on our doorsteps, Muslims buy domestic animals such as goats, camels, sheep, and cows to slaughter. The whole process of slaughtering may take place even at homes, or at the butcher’s. Al-...
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Arab unity, still alive?

25 Nov 2009
After Egypt-Algeria final match for FIFA World Cup qualification, which has turned into “war”, Arab unity it seems has been set aside. Some find it shocking that a football match could be turned into whirlpool of violence,...
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Hawamdiya sugar company forces father to retract allegations

Hassan Haddad, a retired father of four from Hawamdeya city, filters tab water at his house in a daily routine using a piece of cotton. Haddad's four children had suffered kidney failure for years but one of them passed away 2 months ago. Al-Masry Al-Youm investigated illegal industrial waste of Hawamdeya sugar company into Nile water and its connection to the increase of kidney failure in Hawamdeya compared to neighboring cities.
25 Nov 2009
A health ministry committee took water samples from the home of Sheikh Hassan Haddad after Al-Masry Al-Youm ran an investigative feature in which Haddad indicated that his sons' kidney failure was due to water in Hawamdiya being polluted...
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The Internet speaks Arabic

19 Nov 2009
Sharm el-Sheikh--At the opening session of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Minister of Communication and Information Technology Tarek Kamel announced that Egypt would apply the following day for a top-level domain name in Arabic (dot....
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Nour: Military must stay out of politics

17 Nov 2009
Ayman Nour has been always a controversial figure in Egyptian politics. Although he is almost unknown to the majority of Egyptians, Nour managed to come in second in the first multicandidate presidential elections which was held in...
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Fayoumi: A working class hero

Mahalla labor leader Kamal el-Fayoumi
17 Nov 2009
On the morning of January 30 in 2007, two buses arrived from Mahalla to Cairo's Shoubra district, parking a block away from the headquarters of the General Union of Textile Workers. The bus was carrying around 200 workers from the Misr...
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Torture victim tells his story

15 Nov 2009
A young man was threatened and tortured by three officers in a 6th of October police station three years ago. The ordeal began in 2007 and only recently ended in 2009 when public prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud referred the three officers...
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