This piece was written for Egypt Independent’s final weekly print edition, which was banned from going to press. We offer you...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
Egyptian papers are joining the flurry of international press reports, commentary and speculation on the unknown culprits of the marathon...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
The iconic Maspero television building has long been a protest hub for activists voicing their mounting frustration with the state’s...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
Thousands of supporters of Al-Azhar’s top cleric, Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, took to the streets across Egypt’s governorates after Friday prayers,...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
As Egypt’s student union elections reach their end, independents and opposition groups have achieved surprising victories against the veteran Muslim...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
The future of a court ruling to annul the appointment of the country's top prosecutor Talaat Abdallah is the main...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
The Cairo Court of Cassation ruling on Wednesday annulled the presidential decree appointing Talaat Abdallah as Egypt's prosecutor general, after...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
President Mohamed Morsy's speech in front of the Arab Summit in Doha and the aftermath of clashes between protesters and...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
Clashes broke out Tuesday between students and guards at Misr International University, leaving dozens injured. MIU student Menna Alaa said...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
Some of the country's newspapers celebrated a non-binding report Thursday issued by the State Commissioners Authority the day before, which...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
A judicial body on Wednesday appealed the Cairo Administrative Court's recent decision to suspend upcoming parliamentary elections, raising questions over...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
Egypt’s newspapers Wednesday were mostly concerned with different, sometimes conflicting speculations over the fate of the country’s current government, as...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
A report issued by a judicial fact-finding committee appointed by President Mohamed Morsy last June has proved serious violations of...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago
Reports released by human rights organizations over the past months say that the targeting of activists and deliberate murder of...
Mai Shams El-Din Mai Shams El-Din 8 years ago